Contemporary Classics

Can Celebrity Collaborations Hurt an Artist’s Career?

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Isaac Julien, Ten Thousand Waves, 2010. Nine-screen installation, 35mm film transferred to High Definition, 9.2 surround sound, 49' 41". Installation view, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013. Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York and Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photographer: Jonathan Muzikar

Soul-Stirring Ten Thousand Waves Makes Poetry of Film

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Luke Jerram’s Ghostly Installation Brings the Moon Within Reach

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Fatboy Slim Praise You, directed by Spike Jonze, still

Spike Jonze’s Charming Turn as a Dancer for Fatboy Slim’s Praise You

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How a Photo of an Egg Broke the Internet

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Adventure Time, still

How Adventure Time Became a Global Phenomenon

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Antony Gormley, Blind Light, 2007

How to Lose Yourself in Antony Gormley’s Blind Light

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Anton Corbijn, Nirvana, Heart-Shaped Box, video still

Anton Corbijn’s Terrifying Technicolor Nirvana Video Epitomizes the MTV Era

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Ai Weiwei, Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, 1993 © Ai Weiwei Studio Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Coca-Cola Meets China: Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Symbolism

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Everything We Love About Hassan Hajjaj’s Portrait of Cardi B

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The Album Cover of Is This It by the Strokes Captures an Era of Nostalgic Hedonism

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Wolfgang Tillmans’s Anti-Brexit Posters Make the Personal Into the Political

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I love dick green cover Chris Kraus

I Love Dick’s Cover Is a Deliberately No-Frills Public Transport Provocateur

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Ginger, 2016. Image courtesy of Baldwin Gallery and Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter Explores a Soiled, Defiant Sensuality

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The Extraordinary Effect of Richard Wilson’s 20:50, a Room Flooded with Black Oil

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Ryoji Ikeda, Test Pattern, the Transfinite, photo by James Ewing courtesy of Forma

Ryoji Ikeda’s Test Pattern Proves the Beauty in the Brutal

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Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore Is a Poignant Tribute to Rave Culture

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`Firestack, Autumn: Aird Bheag, outer Hebrides, 2017. By Julie Brook

Julie Brook’s Firestacks Turn the Elements into Art

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A Quiet, Beautiful Cinematic Wrestle with the Problem of London

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Gazing Ball (Boucher Reclining Girl) (2014–15), Jeff Koons. © Jeff Koons – Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

Jeff Koons’s Gazing Balls Make Masterpieces into Selfies

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Jeremy Deller, Sacrilege, 2012

The Most Stupid Artwork Ever? Jeremy Deller’s Bouncy Castle Stonehenge

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Mama's Liebling - Nobody is Perfect (Mama's Darling - Nobody is Perfect), 1979/1999

That Time Renate Bertlmann Put a Penis in a Dress

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David Shrigley, I’m Dead 2010 at Brain Activity exhibition at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, 2012. Photo by Linda Nylind.

David Shrigley’s Dead Dogs Offer Comfort and Humour in Bleakness

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Verity, by Damien Hirst. Photo credit: Mark Robinson

Damien Hirst’s Verity Is the Public Sculpture We Deserve

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