Category: art

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  • Cousin of Suspected Robber in Louvre Museum Heist Speaks Out

    A cousin of one of the suspected robbers in the Louvre heist recently spoke out in an interview with ABC News. A man identified as Mehdy, who claims to be the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, told ABC News‘ James Longman in an exclusive new interview for the television special “Impact x read more

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    Cousin of Suspected Robber in Louvre Museum Heist Speaks Out

  • Artnet and Artsy Owner Andrew Wolff Forecasts the Future of Art Market Data and Decision-Making

    After acquiring Artnet and taking it private and procuring a controlling stake in Artsy, Beowolff Capital CEO Andrew Wolff has set his sights on the digital future of the art market and the culture that surrounds it. On the occasion of his inclusion in the Observer’s “Art Power Index,” Wolff talked to the publication in read more

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    Artnet and Artsy Owner Andrew Wolff Forecasts the Future of Art Market Data and Decision-Making

  • Drag Wrestling Show Apologizes for ICE-Themed Skit at Brooklyn Art Center

    Choke Hole, a drag wrestling show, apologized on Friday for a controversial ICE-themed portion of a performance staged at Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn art center. “We created a traumatic environment for many of our audience members and are deeply sorry for this,” Choke Hole wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “Our attempt to engage read more

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    Drag Wrestling Show Apologizes for ICE-Themed Skit at Brooklyn Art Center

  • 70+ Artists Transform Matchboxes for Joy Machine's 'General Strike'

    Joy Machine is excited to present General Strike, an exhibition of 70+ matchboxes, opening on November 21 in Chicago. What does solidarity mean for the artist? Or, what can art do in a time of crisis? The concept of a general strike is appealing to many advocates and activists because, in the face of oppression read more

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    70+ Artists Transform Matchboxes for Joy Machine's 'General Strike'

  • Tetsunori Tawaraya’s Fierce & Hypnotizing World Will Air-Fry Your Retinas – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Speculative genres like sci-fi are so cross-pollinated with horror and fantasy and the Western that the conventions of one frequently bleed into the others. “Ghetto Samurai” brings the genre-blending eastward, and nods to the cowboy motifs that became integral to conventions of post-war samurai films in Japan. “Story does not flow out at all,” Tawaraya read more

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    Tetsunori Tawaraya’s Fierce & Hypnotizing World Will Air-Fry Your Retinas – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Phantom Limbs: The Body Part Filled Paintings of Sarah Slappey are Tumultuous, Alluring, & Aggressive – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Beyond her distinctive imagery and thematic explorations, Slappey’s technical skills are also exceptional, lending an almost photorealistic quality to elements of her work. Her paintings have both a recognizable look as well as a unique feel. She produces the kind of imagery that is not just visually captivating but also stirring, the kind that elicits read more

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    Phantom Limbs: The Body Part Filled Paintings of Sarah Slappey are Tumultuous, Alluring, & Aggressive – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Personal Effects: The Art of Laurie Lipton – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The drawings of Laurie Lipton have bewildered and enchanted audiences for several decades. Each piece wields a cacophony of influences and experiences in dreamlike visions. When she talks about her work, whether from the 1980s or recent months, Lipton yields any specific explanation to the viewer. “Everything I’ve ever seen, read, felt, thought, heard… it read more

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    Personal Effects: The Art of Laurie Lipton – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Gregory Hergert’s Blue Acid – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    There are new mixed media sculptures in your Blue Acid show. They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way.How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In read more

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    Gregory Hergert’s Blue Acid – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Ryan Matthew Cohn and Jean Labourdette explore the Wunderkammer in “Mors Et Anima” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your work is obviously influenced by the concept of the wunderkammer- the cabinet of curiosities. Can you each speak to what initially sparked your interest in such a subject and how it influences your work? Ryan: I have had a great attraction forWunderkammer, since I was very young. I grew up surrounded by nature, which read more

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    Ryan Matthew Cohn and Jean Labourdette explore the Wunderkammer in “Mors Et Anima” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Oscar Joyo Harnesses Color and Pattern With Latest Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Oh, were you referring to IN GROWN or OVERCAST? Yeah, I really enjoyed making those pieces…..Both of those pieces come from similar head spaces from songs, paintings or media depicting forms or phases more vibrant than the one before. Speaking of which, please describe how your chromesthesia (the ability to see colors when hearing sounds) read more

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    Oscar Joyo Harnesses Color and Pattern With Latest Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Natural Hallucinations abound “When Two Worlds Collide” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Nothing pleases me more than when someone laughs out loud whilst looking at one of my paintings. – Alan MacDonald Alan, there’s a prevailing sense of humor found in your new work, not just in the elements , but in the titles. “The Future Doge” and “A King With No Bling”. Do you want to read more

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    Natural Hallucinations abound “When Two Worlds Collide” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • The Happy Hellscapes of Joe Vaux – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The paintings that you create; they are so dense with creatures! There are fifty or sixty sets of eyes in some of them. DO they leave their lairs at the same time? I’m big on eyes and teeth. And yes, we hold mandatory meetings monthly. Some people might not know that you work on the read more

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    The Happy Hellscapes of Joe Vaux – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Have No Fear, It’s Just a “Mild Apocolypse”: An Interview with Bub – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I asked her to be more careful but she hollered something about her ‘proud heritage’ and tossed an SUV at me. In “American Kaiju”, an armed lass is caught gleefully destroying a suburban neighborhood, like a rootin’-tootin’ Godzilla. That expression of hers; she knows that we’re watching. It appears that she is more concerned with read more

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    Have No Fear, It’s Just a “Mild Apocolypse”: An Interview with Bub – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Time Traveling with Painters Mike Davis and Michael Kerbow – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Michael, your allegorical paintingspresent themes of disaster and climate change. While it is an existential threat, is there any hope for humanity, at all? I suppose my honest answer is I try to be hopeful, but I fear things are going to get a lot worse before they improve. I used to be more optimistic read more

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    Time Traveling with Painters Mike Davis and Michael Kerbow – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Beware “The Five Poisons”! – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    There are an endless amount of things in this dangerous world to look out for. This week I learned that the middle of the calendar year is something to add to the proverbial “list”. It appears that, according to Chinese folklore, poisonous animals emerge from the cold of winter, along with a herd of pesky read more

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    Beware “The Five Poisons”! – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • HF Visits: Coleccion SOLO in Spain – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Recently, Hi-Fructose got to rendezvous with Coleccion Solo, an international arts project based in Madrid, Spain which owns nearly 1,000 contemporary artworks, many of which kept on display within their free, private museum space Espacio SOLO. The main impetus of the visit was to witness the unveiling of their brand-new exhibition “Handle with Care”, showcasing read more

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    HF Visits: Coleccion SOLO in Spain – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Beautiful Abyss: The Art of Janice Sung – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Illustrator-turned-fine artist Janice Sung’s figures seem at home amidst natural settings, whether in a lily pad pond or a garden, floating like a near-translucent milk specter. Her recent gallery showing at Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles, the first using physical media by the artist. While you can definitely see the influence of one of her read more

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    Beautiful Abyss: The Art of Janice Sung – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Nonamey Recreates Teenage Hide Out Using Cardboard In Latest Installation – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The resident ofyourroom seems to have more cohesive interests . ..? Perhaps! My room’s girl is involved with the Riot Grrl scene, the make-it-by-hand punk lifestyle. I noticed a recreated Stereolab Peng (1992) and Franc albums (1995) Was this circa 1999? or more like 2001? I would say closer to 1999 before the world ended read more

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    Nonamey Recreates Teenage Hide Out Using Cardboard In Latest Installation – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    First up is a tour of 21c’s Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, a revealing look at intersections between vulnerability and power in portraiture. It’s an exhibition that examines the “complexity of class, identity, and politics in history and more specifically, art history. The works in Fragile Figures: Beings and Time are comprised of a vast read more

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    21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Mike Leavitt Talks Trash with New Exhibition of Mutated Fake Out Branded Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your piece “Little Carbon Footprints’ is a Little Tykes Cozy Coup ride on toy, constructed fro m four upcycled wood pallets. It’s pretty faithful to the original.Did you have a Coup laying round to reference? Doesn’t every parent? Ours fills with rainwater out in the yard. And yes, I definitely used it for reference, measured read more

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    Mike Leavitt Talks Trash with New Exhibition of Mutated Fake Out Branded Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine