Contemporary Classics

Calm Amidst a Storm: The Defiant Impact of an Iconic Protest Image

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Donald Rodney, Crisis, 1989 at Chisenhale, London

Crisis by Donald Rodney Confronted the “Disease” of Police Brutality in 1989

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Chatroulette Defined a Distanced Era of Awkward Zoom Chats and Dick Pics

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Jiab Prachakul’s Candid Portrait Evokes the Sociable World We All Miss

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In Richard Mosse’s Pink Congo, Death Is More Than Just a Number

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Paul Slater, Image of an Indonesian Celebes Crested Macque, 2011. Via Wikimedia Commons

Is Your Face Still Your Own in the Digital Boom of Social Distancing?

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Ever is Over All, 1997, audio video installation by Pipilotti Rist (video still) © Pipilotti Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine

Pipilotti Rist Undercuts Modern Femininity With Dreamlike Rebellion

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Theaster Gates’ Uplifting Portrait of Human Connection Goes Beyond Race

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ASMR Videos Offer Intimate Connection in this Time of Self-Isolation

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This Beat is Super-Yonic: Janelle Monáe’s PYNK Heralded the Age of the Vulva

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Domestic Bliss? How The Sims Made a Virtue of Staying In 

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Art or Commerce? Supreme and the Unholy Power of an Iconic Logo

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This Is What Labour Looks Like Around the World

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2012 Furby from Hasbro

How Did Furbies, Cute Emblem of Nineties Nostalgia, Get So Evil?

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This Adorable Video Game Reflects Our Contemporary Anxieties

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This Lazy Egg Is the Mascot of the Millennial Burnout Generation

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Juergen Teller’s Iconic Portrait of Joan Didion Broke New Ground

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The Unstoppable Cuteness That Is Baby Yoda

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How Sabrina the Teenage Witch Played Into Our Modern Obsession With Astrology

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The original Tamagotchis

How Tamagotchi Presciently Prefigured the Smartphone Self

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How Director Terence Nance Brought Afrofuturism Into the Light

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In Praise of the Botched “Potato Christ” Restoration

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The Snapchat Ghost Perfectly Encapsulates the Last Decade

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Tom from Myspace

The Rise and Fall of Myspace

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