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Pho To: The Unpredictable Eye of a Generation

In the lexicon of contemporary art photography, few names ring with such poetic irony as...

Reframing the Grid: The Pixel Art of P1X3L

In an era increasingly defined by screen-based visual culture, few artists have so deftly turned...

Messiness Without Shame—the manifesto of a maximalist, post-ironic, anti-coherent art movement

“Formlessness is freedom. Neatness is compliance.” , unofficial motto spray-painted on their mobile sculpture-bus, The...

REVIEW: The Unspeakable Lens of NAME REDACTED — Black Squares, Brutal Truths

Review: “Photos from the Frontline”. This is the latest (and possibly last) exhibition by the...

REVIEW: Jane Bastion’s Ring Roads and Radiators — Portraits by Other Means

Jane Bastion, known and admired for her stark, poetic silhouette portraits , each one a...

Exclusive! An Interview with the Leader of the Guardians of Aesthetic Coherence

“We Sing Because It Must Be Stopped” On a warm spring afternoon in downtown Truro...

The Bin-Gazer of Babylon: Oboe Ngua and the Global Waste Archive

Some artists search for beauty in sunsets or salvation in the curve of a marble...

Goalie Goes Up: The Art of Leaping Toward the Impossible

Somewhere between the sacred geometry of Kazimir Malevich and the muddy poetry of Sunday league...

Silhouette portraiture: the Regency’s equivalent of Instagram filters, only more dignified and less prone to bad lighting.

Enter Jane Bastion, alias the “Queen of the Silhouette,” who has taken it upon herself...