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Jean-Michel Basquiat – Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, 1982, acrylic, oil stick, spray paint on canvas, 240 x 420 cm (96 x 164 in), installation view, Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland, 2023 feat

Banksy vs. Basquiat – Who did it better? Boy & Dog in a Johnnypump

Paintings, Street Art / 9 minutes of reading

Jean-Michel Basquiat had a short but successful career. Starting in the late 1970s with painting graffiti, it was not until the early 1980s that he experienced real success in the art world. During this time, he created one of his most best-known paintings, Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump. It is considered Basquiat’s artwork at […]

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Richard Mosse’s Incoming – A military-grade camera & Migrants

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

As sad and as unfortunate as it may sound, war has the uncanny capacity to spawn an overflow of artistic output. The installations and exhibitions that come out of war throw new light on the motivation for conflict and the responses to conflict by soldiers. Art pieces inspired by war also highlight the widely varying

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Song Dong’s Waste Not – Why obsessive hoarding lead to this project

Architecture, Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Song Dong’s Waste Not is an installation with a story behind it. A testament born of the artist’s mother, Zhao Xiangyuan’s hoardings, the installation consists of tools, plant pots, chairs, empty squeezed out tubes of toothpaste, television sets, all collected over a span of five decades. This obsessive hoarding of items resulted in an accumulation

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Banksy vs. Basquiat – Who did it better? Boy & Dog in a Johnnypump

Richard Mosse’s Incoming – A military-grade camera & Migrants

Song Dong’s Waste Not – Why obsessive hoarding lead to this project

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