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For Men Who Are Boys, This Photographer Deconstructs “Masculine Gestures”

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Clementine Hunter, Playing Cards, c. 1980

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Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valley Curtain, 1970–72

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Shawn Theodore Afromythology

Shawn Theodore Unites the Histories and Futures of African Americans

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Alfred Gescheidt, A Saul Steinberg-Decorated Bathtub, 1955

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Javier Senosiain, Organic House, Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico, 1984

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How Queer Artists Around the World Are Redefining Colour in Visual Culture

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Matthieu Lavanchy, Foam Sculptures by Etienne Gros, 2014

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The Wave, 2019 © Edouard Taufenbach, courtesy of Elizabeth Houston Gallery

Edouard Taufenbach’s Summer Haze Collages Celebrate “Queer Realities”

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Miwa Yanagi, Elevator Girls, 1994–8

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Arielle Bobb-Willis, Austin 2020

This Anti-Racism Photo Fundraiser Supports Black British Organisations

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Lorna Simpson, Flames (detail), 2019

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Andy Sweet, Camp Mountain Lake, Summer 1977, from Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

Relive Your Awkward Adolescent Years with This Wry Ode to Summer Camps

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Tony Vaccaro, Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, 1966

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Sarah Lucas, Bitch, 1995

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Alexis Pazoumian, Sacha

Alexis Pazoumian Captures the Human Impact of Climate Change in Siberia

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Yue Minjun, Water, 1998

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Fitzcarraldo Editions’ Design Makes Literary Fiction a Must-Have Accessory

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Ettore Sottsass, Yuko House, 1991–3

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Protest symbols

The Real Meanings Behind Six Symbols of Protest

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Gordon Parks, Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956

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Throughout the series, which has just been published as a book by Mack, sun-seekers set up camp in car parks; swimming pools appear as mini oases in a desert of grey concrete; and cranes and cooling towers loom awkwardly over beaches. The contrast between these built up, man-made environments and the sunbathers, who appear minute in scale, is amusingly surreal, but highlights our subservience towards industry, housing developments and superstores.

Txema Salvans Captures the Awkward Joy of Sunbathing in a Post-Industrial World

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Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Passing Through, 1977

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Screenshot from The Simpsons, Isotope Dog Supreme

Looks Good Enough to Eat: The Nostalgia of Cartoon Food

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