Nancy Cavaliere, who resold the original Picasso ceramics at auction for $40K, now shares her tips for thrifting on TikTok.
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TikTok Goes Surrealist With “Exquisite Corpse” Videos
Users are stitching videos together in the style of the beloved “cadavre exquis” game.
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When Life Imitates a Wes Anderson Movie
Photographer Ava Williams’s TikTok video of an Anderson-style train ride unleashed a new cinematic subgenre on the platform.
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This Man’s on a Mission to See All the Art in Animal Crossing IRL
Mayuren Naidoo has visited 26 museums internationally and seen 36 artworks from the beloved game so far, chronicling his trek on TikTok.
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TikTok’s “Corecore” Is Where Men Scream Their Anguish
The trend’s throwback to Dada offers a warning about the crisis of men’s mental health and the rise of the far right.
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What Does TikTok’s “Corecore” Have to Do With Dada?
As art history buffs on the app have pointed out, both movements attribute meaning to the meaningless.
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Is Bleak the New Look for a TikTok Childhood?
Social media persona Sad Beige Werner Herzog presents a seemingly endless array of sniffling tots stuffed into gray, brown, and tan knits.
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This TikToker Is Flipping the Script on European Art
Clare Brown talks about European artists as if they were the “cultural other,” invoking the microagressions commonly used against non-White artists.
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Met Gala Behavior and Other TikTok Wisdom From Devin Halbal
An influencer who goes by the handle @halbaddie has been helping define what “Met Gala Behavior” is in 2022.
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As Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTokers Are Documenting the War
Mundane on-the-ground realities of warfare like urban bomb sirens in Kyiv to long lines outside gas stations hit the platform — but so does disinformation.
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“OK, I like it, Picasso” Takes Off on TikTok
How an encounter between a pedestrian and a group of art students produced one of TikTok’s latest viral hits.
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The Desperation and Quiet Resolve of #DayintheLife TikToks
The genre originated in the first lockdown, when we learned to entertain ourselves with — and fix our gazes on — the minutiae of daily life.
