Contemporary Classics

Richard Turley, I AM MY MTV ident

How Richard Turley and MTV Embraced the “Clusterfuck” of Internet Culture

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Honk If You’re Childish: The Joyful Simplicity of Untitled Goose Game

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Screen shot of Snake Gameplay as set to Laurei Anderson's O Superman, By Mimmo Rubino

Celebrating Snake: How a Few Pixels and a Savvy Designer Made a Masterpiece

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The Smiling Poop Emoji Conveys What Words Never Could

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Julia Ducournau’s Raw Speaks to the Horror in All of Us

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That Time a Gummy Venus de Milo Sparked a Me Too Moment in The Simpsons

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Cory Arcangel’s Monument to Digital Distraction

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The Moomins: Unflinching Reality in Children’s Stories

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All images: Installation view of Ai Weiwei: Roots at Lisson Gallery, London, 2 October–2 November 2019 © Ai Weiwei, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Why Ai Weiwei’s Roots Are More Relevant Now than Ever

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Noma Bar’s Cover Design for The Testaments Upends Our Vision of the Handmaid

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How the Ikea Monkey in a Sheepskin Jacket Changed Visual Culture Forever

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Gregory Crewdson Fuses Fact and Fiction in American Suburbia

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The World Is on Fire: Edel Rodriguez Highlights the Absurd in the Political

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The EU Flag: How a Symbol of Unity Broke Apart

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Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Render Class, Race and Gender Obsolete 

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Taryn Simon Scrutinizes the Illegal Goods Seized at Airport Security

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The American Apparel Adverts Capture the Rise and Fall of the Male Gaze

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Simon Hanselmann, Bad Gateway spread

Sex, Drugs and Caustic Wit: Megg, Mogg and Owl Is a Cult Classic

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Jon Rafman Finds a Slice of Humanity in the Digital Terrain

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Prada Marfa Is the Perfect Artwork for the Instagram Generation

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Trevor Paglen Points His Camera at the Impenetrable American West

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The Artists who Crawled Out of the Cyberswamp

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Laure Prouvost, Pocket Tube Map. Photo by Benedict Johnson 2019

Laure Prouvost Turns Commuter Misery into Joy

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The Controversial Fanta Ad That Changed Advertising

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