Books
Providence, Rhode Island-based multi-hyphenate Brian Chippendale is best known as the masked drummer and howling vocalist of noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. He’s also a RISD dropout, cartoonist, and artist.
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To create 2001: A GIF Odyssey, digital producer and copywriter Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec, who goes by JB, cut the two hour and 41-minute long saga into 569 animated GIFs.
Art
For the past decade, along with fellow former members of the late hacker-net artist collective FAT Lab, American artist Evan Roth has been “dedicated to enriching the public domain one mutha-fuckin LOL at a time.”
Art
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the small, landlocked country of Armenia has been in a constant state of sociopolitical flux.
Books
Weimar book artists mashed up the styles of new art movements — Expressionism, New Objectivity, Constructivism, plus photography — to design unique and politically provocative covers and jackets.
Books
Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female “hysterics” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Art
In the treacherous Altai Mountains in the far reaches of western Mongolia, golden eagles build their nests high up on rock faces.
Art
Last year, the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO) — a group of about 80 women who meet monthly at senior centers amid sheafs of fabric and spools of colorful thread — embarked on an ambitious project: They would create narrative quilts that told the complex social, political, and cultur
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The distinctly Floridian tradition of swamp buggy racing is like a messier version of NASCAR.
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“MACHO POSTURING / THERE IS NO GOD,” reads British artist Grayson Perry’s newest drawing, which depicts an industrial wasteland with territories marked “fragile hope,” “crap jobs,” and “motorway of dreams (mistaken).”
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On Saturday afternoon, sand sculptor Zara Gaze came upon a pile of sand at a construction site in her rapidly gentrifying south London neighborhood of Brockley.
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Joe Corré — spawn of punk icons, social activist, and multimillionaire founder of British lingerie chain Agent Provocateur — has announced plans to burn his $7 million collection of punk memorabilia.