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Reconsider the Lobster: The Enduring Symbolism of the Humble Crustacean

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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Desserts to Get Lost In

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Can You Dream It? Cuteness and Creativity

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

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Grant Wood, American, 1891-1942. American Gothic, 1930. The Art Institute of Chicago. Friends of American Art Collection

American Gothic Taught Me to Take Nothing at Face Value

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What Does It Take to Put on Tate’s Big Summer Show?

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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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The “Ripe” Female Artist Making the Menopause Sexy with Selfies

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This Is What the World’s First Acid Trip Looked Like

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

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One Day at the Disco

The Art of Disco: An Enduring Visual Legacy

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Spoek Mathambo by Carla Fonseca

A Man’s World? How Music and Masculinity Got a Makeover

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Jon Rafman Finds a Slice of Humanity in the Digital Terrain

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Shingai Shoniwa’s Music Is a Love Song to Heritage

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Prada Marfa Is the Perfect Artwork for the Instagram Generation

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Olivia Brazier, Getting Figgy With it, 2018, collage

Feeling Fruity? The Collage Artist Getting Busy With a Pair of Scissors

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Whet Your Appetite With This Visual Feast

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Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895. Private Collection, Norway. Photo by Thomas Widerberg

The Scream by Edvard Munch Saved Me in My Darkest Depression

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

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Zach Blas Shows Us a New Dystopia

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The Seductive Allure of the Diner

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The Disturbing Experience of Ageing as a Woman

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What We Learned at the First Yorkshire Sculpture International

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