Observations

How Has RuPaul’s Drag Race Changed the Contemporary Scene?

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Reflecting the Self: Mirrors in Contemporary Art

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The Artists Encouraging Us to Make Peace with our Demons

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Hedge Your Bets: The Timeless Pleasure of Topiary

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Tracey Emin, Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, still

When Art Goes Disco Dancing

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Fillers, Filters, and Facials: Can Art Hold up a Mirror to Cosmetic Surgery Culture?

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David Lynch, Woman with Small Dead Bird, 2018 (cropped). Courtesy of David Lynch and Kayne Griffin Corcoran.

David Lynch Wants You to Play Detective in His Mysterious Paintings

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Reconsider the Lobster: The Enduring Symbolism of the Humble Crustacean

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Luke Jerram, Museum of the Moon at University of Bristol

One Giant Leap for Art: The Creatives Who Fly Us to the Moon

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Food styling by Lucy-Ruth Hathaway, photography by Chris R. Simpson

Why Do Images of Food Make Us Hungry?

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Lin May Saeed, Small Fox Relief, 2019. Courtesy: Private Collection Photo: by Wolfgang, Günzel

Warning: Fragile? The Artists Tearing Up Polystyrene

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Adriana Varejão, Azulejaria Verde em Carne Viva (Green Tilework in Live Flesh), 2000. Photograph by Eduardo Ortega/ Acervo Atelier Adriana Varejão. Tate Modern, London

Paint, Meat and Blood: The Forceful Symbolism of Raw Flesh

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Jenna Gribbon, Elizabeth Working Out Poses For Her Diana Sculpture, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Fredericks & Freiser, NY

Pulp Fiction: The Endurance of the Perfect Pop Aesthetic

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Milton Avery’s “Heroic Cast” of Normal People Chime with the Instagram Age

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Maisie Cousins, Bottom of the Fridge, 2018. Courtesy the artist and TJ Boulting

Dirty Rotten Mouthfuls: Why Artists Love Decaying Food

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Sorry, We’re Closed: Summer Holidays in the Art World

Art Living
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The Artists Using Technology to Harness the Forces of Nature

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Pointless Profundity? How Twitter Art Bots Are Shaking Up Visual Culture

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The Seductive Allure of the Diner

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The Gourmand, Issue 12

Imperfection, Lust and Disgust: The Art of Designing Food Magazines

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Sweat, Push, Baby! Artists Busting the Hollywood Creation Myth

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Gina PANE Action Psyché, 1973 (detail) A set of twenty five colour photographs, preparatory drawings, and coloured slides © The Estate of the Artist; Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery

How Do You Present Performance Art Once It’s All Over?

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A Pain That I’m Used To: When the Art World Embraced S&M

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Pony Express (Ian Sinclair and Loren Kronemyer), Ecosexual Bathouse, 2016. Photography by Matt Sav Courtesy of the artists

The Sensual Plant: How Ecosexuality Found Fertile Ground in the Art World

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