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2020Hays courthouse
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2023Majestic Theatre, King Street, Madison, WI (52744543027)
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2021Lille immeuble 65 rue d'artois
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2019Bicycle art detail, Charles Kilpatrick poster (cropped)
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2015P22 Cezanne
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2008Poster de His New Profession
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2017Poster of the movie Riding on Air
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2020Opening Night (1977 poster)
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2020Wiatrakowa 17
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL BIEN 113
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2018Poster of Alexander Crystal Seer
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2023Wien Museum Online Sammlung 102507 Julius Gertinger Selbstporträt
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL FETE 177
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2022Dunkerque Malo 24 20 rue marechal foch
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 187
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2025Johannes Handschin - Poster Apollo Stumpen
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2017Poster of the movie The Dance of Life
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2026Kunstmuseum Bonn, 226 poster of collections, Anna und Bernhard Blume
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2013PP D159 poster by guillaume for delion
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2023Landesmuseum, Hannover, poster Modersohn-Becker
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2016Weißwasser Teichstraße 48 (3)
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2019Gisbert Combaz - Poster for the Annual Salon of La Libre Esthétique
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2014Midori Baba and Li Yong 20131105
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2013Poster - Frisco Jenny 09
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL EXPO 744
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2022Croix villa le clair logis
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730030
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2022Concert poster Dutch Trio
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2025Sencig Poster Villach Kärnten
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2016Yuanchen Jiang interprets our online lives through a series of understated posters
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2020“Art is a testimony”: Three creatives embody the spirit of Keith Haring and advocate for important causes
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2011Dana Schutz
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2010An Art Service
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2016Dutch artist Tymen Visser paints life in Tokyo
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2014Why the David Hockney documentary is the best film I’ve seen this year
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL EXPO 1362
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2011Robert Longo: Yingxiong
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2019Pablo Tomek leaves the social interpretation of his work up to the viewer
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2016Rachel Levit illustrates contemporary relationships in new book
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2016Ian Patrick captures The Rajasthan Express and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood
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2017Andrea Nakhla paints her friends' "existential anxiety"
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2016Racy photography from the new issue of Odiseo
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2016Mumbai-based artist Yashasvi Mathis' unconventional take on the world
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2018“Are we all avatars now?” asks digital painter Zak Keene
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2015Mehdi Ghadyanloo – "a Magritte of our times"
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2011Jazmin Berakha
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2015Jean-Michel Basquiat, the artist who brought graffiti to the Guggenheim
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2014Art: Jenn Dierdorf creates abstract compositions from recgnisable shapes
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2015Michael Craig-Martin: a cool, clean and colourful riot of everyday objects
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2017Painter James Bartolacci memorialises LGBTQ parties and their significance in the Trump era
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2015Sex, war and vacuum cleaners: Tate's The World Goes Pop makes pop art exciting again
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2018Brian Roettinger designs the first retrospective of photographer George Rodriguez
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2017Friday Mixtape: Jake Chapman’s band, Funhole
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2023Jeroen van den Bogaert’s tapestries show just how close the classical and contemporary are
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2019“I wanted to be as good as the white old masters”: meet painter Salman Toor
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2022Lille immeuble 233 235 rue gambetta
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2014Behind The Scenes: We talk erotica with Folch Studio ahead of the launch of Odiseo Vol 4 this week
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2019Alice Tye's new exhibition presents the everyday details from a trip to Japan
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2020“I remove all the imperfections”: Christopher Hartmann on his artificial and figurative practice
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2016Conceptual Art: ideas, action and words, as presented by Tate Britain
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2013Tracey Emin's neon takes over Times Square every night in February
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 416
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2019“AI is definitely the king right now”: meet multimedia artist Eamonn Freel
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2014This week we chat Quentin Blake, Tour de France and the controversial Greenpeace video
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2015Feeling rambunctious? It’s no wonder, the Weekender is here!
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2020“It’s storytelling, really”: Cassi Namoda on her narrative-driven paintings
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2021Art collective Excalibur on using pixel art to blend Japanese myths with reality
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2003Modern
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2021Dorairolg plays a puzzle with the viewer in her mind-bogglingly detailed digital artworks
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2014We interview Miriam Elia about new show Pastiche, Parody & Piracy
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2017Parterre de Rois: the Black issue features Anish Kapoor and Nina Chanel Abney
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2016Zhang Liang's cartoons sum up American pop culture
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2016Brandon Celi swaps editorial illustration for sculptural fine art
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2011What's On: Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978 - 2010
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2018Fusing art-history with pop culture; Adobe Stock’s latest identified visual trend is history and memory
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2013Art: Artist Ryan McGinness allows viewers a valuable glimpse into his creative process
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2016Iris Van Der Zee reevaluates the artistic sculpture in modern context
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2015An interview with the wonderful Panda Bear about art, music, fear and death
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2014The Art in Film blog records artworks featured on the big screen
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2013Publication: Nice new book salutes 100 graphic design stars of today
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2015Painterly forms by artist and illustrator Bénédicte Muller
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2019John Boaz captures the complexity of spirituality today in his project, Our Father
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2020Berke Yazicioglu reinterprets Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring through a series of 11 tapestries
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2013Mad but brilliant scribbled compositions from Devon McFarland
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2017Illustrator Joakim Drescher’s erotic scenes are an ode to his favourite artists (NSFW)
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730023
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2013Jamie Hawkesworth's stunning studio visit shots of Ai Weiwei for AnOther are superb
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2015Design tracings (1875) (14592736720)
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2013Film: Documentary charts one couple's 2,500 artwork gift to the nation
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2015The Vinyl Factory's Sean Bidder on the White Cube on-site vinyl press
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2019Seoul-based artist Dahye Choi gets inspired by “old spaces” and “ordinary things”
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2017Artist Matthew Dettmer reinterprets the everyday through his sparsely-detailed paintings
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2015Viviane Sassen's new exhibition opens today at London's ICA
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2018Catching up with Charlotte Trounce while on a residency in Japan
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2018Mischa Appel's series This is Where You End investigates the "increasing polarisation of society"
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2013Seriously accomplished editorial photography from Einar Aslaksen
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2013Publication: Impressive anonymous arts journal Monika is back
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 1247
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2018E11 931 (438855620)
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 1665
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2015Design tracings (1875) (14777202034)
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2014The live art auction PADDLES ON! promotes digital artists and their work
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2016Artist Esther Olsson's tomgirl world
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 229
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2016A painting and photography duo poking fun at fine art
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2011"I need your money to win this war" - NARA - 514563
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2017Tiago Majuelo’s vibrantly illustrates ancient greek gods with contemporary objects
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2010William Eggleston at Victoria Miro
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2015Nostalgia and modern life go hand in hand in the work of illustrator Janne Iivonen
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2012Opinion: Is street art really relevant anymore?
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2014Check out Laurie Lipton's astonishing pencil illustrations
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2015Elephant magazine’s new issue takes on Post-Internet Art
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2015Jeremy Deller artfully avoids Andy Warhol story in the new Printed Pages
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2016Wonderful and sensitive identity designs for German arts organisation
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2022Lambersart villa de l'etoile
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2012Photographer Lisa Kereszi's strips away the artifice of enjoyment in her quietly dazzling work
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2014Cara Robbins' portraits of a new music scene reminiscent of a bygone era
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2017Tim Noble, Gary Card, Campbell Addy and more explore mental health in new exhibition
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2015Nina Chanel's paintings make sense of the mess of modern life
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2013Introducing…Luke Pelletier's vibrant artwork is right up our street
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2014Casa Rex redesigns the Medieval illuminated Bible for the 21st Century
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2015The Ugliest Thing I Love: Artist Eric Yahnker celebrates the chaotic beauty of American politics
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2023Phones phones phones: Jurell Cayetano’s paintings don’t just reflect the everyday lives of his friends, but all of us
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2018Ones to Watch 2018: visual artist Lucy Hardcastle
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2019Satirical and humorous, Megumi Ono-Chan illustrates a “lustful labourer”
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2019Mateo Broillet likes to reflect elements of type history in his contemporary designs
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2016The problems with digital art and why moving image is so important: a chat with Daata Editions
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2017Mark Alsweiler’s charming wooden figures are created using found materials
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2016Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage on the interchanging influence of art and music
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2015Selman Hoşgör pairs famous contemporaries like Picasso and Dali in a series of winking collages
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2015The Night Cry poster
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2012What's On: Gilbert & George
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2012What's On: Zarina Bhimji
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2022Brian Alfred's latest exhibition ponders an Earth void of humans
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2014What are those? Oh, just paintings of American presidents with boob faces
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2013Photography: Mike Mellia captures modern artists in the style of old masters
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2018Dave Bell on 10 years of exhibitions at KK Outlet
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730007
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2019Poster Louise Opera By Charpentier
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730008
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2019Shadow of the Gunman poster
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2016Throrowgood Big Slab (7128712995)
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2012The Graduates 2012's Jake Evans on Leonardo Da Vinci and replacing "work" with "bacon"
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2023From Teletubbies to Britney Spears, photographer Lewis Vorn takes cues from all corners of pop culture
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2014Frith Kerr discusses her studio's work for the Frieze Art Fairs
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2015Warhol and cookie jars? The Barbican's new show looks at artists' collections
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 1844
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2021Graphic designer Ira Ivanova treats each project like a game where you set your own rules
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2011Empty apartment living room
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2013On the eve of its opening we profile three more craft stars on show at COLLECT 2013
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2014Sculpture: Rodan Kane Hart creates stunning geometric works of art
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2017Up the River (film poster)
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2009Vhils
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2013Illustration: Michael Kuo illustrates the weird, uncomfortable and awkward
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2014An excerpt from our Olafur Eliasson interview in the new Printed Pages
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2017Artist Jonathan Chapline’s new works blur the boundary between the rendered and painted
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2018Haruna Kawai breaks down the boundaries between illustration and sculpture
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2011Public Collectors
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2013Art: A new series of nudes from French painter Etienne Gros
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2013Poster - Frisco Jenny 07
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2011Lynn Hershman Leeson: !Women Art Revolution
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2013Art: Ana Montiel wows us with her explorations of pattern in ongoing series
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2013Art: Shan Hur makes installation work to question the confines of gallery space
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2010Phyllis Galembo
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2014Photography: Dan Wilton explores the golden age of porn in his (obviously NSFW) latest shoot
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2019Ori Studio on reinterpreting Soushi Tanaka’s photography through design
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2018Anonymous illustrators Germes Gang “perceive everything related to contemporary life traumatic"
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2016How I Got Here: Wilfrid Wood, sculptor
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2021Evie O’Connor shows the emptiness of affluence in her latest critique of class structures
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2014PolyBrick series
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2019Shana Sadeghi-Ray makes art about object worship and consumerist devotion
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2018Baloji's latest music video is a dreamscape of electric hues and intriguing characters
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2012New show celebrates the Spanish studio which turned ceramics into jaw-dropping architectural features
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2023Jan Šrámek Electoral Poster 1946
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2016Utopia Limited Poster - Original
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2021Lille immeuble 74 rue royale
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2010Things
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2024Poster Cycles Austral A. Puyplat
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2024Majd Kamalmaz wanted poster image 1
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 1771
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2013Big Brother Awards 2013 13
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2021Lille immeuble 15 rue jean sans peur
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730019
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2018Commerce vs. conquest - Dalrymple. LCCN2012647599
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730000
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2023Seclin maison dujardin 137 rue burgault
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "D") - NARA - 5730006
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2023Design de chaleiras
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2022VIIIe olympiades 1404778
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2015Ai Weiwei prints five years worth of tweets in new artwork
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2023Armentieres 41 43 rue jules ferry
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2017Violoncelo (1915-1916) - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1897-1018) (32502722002)
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2012Malaya Today (Photo Poster Set "E") - NARA - 5729984
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2012Poster "X" - NARA - 5730049
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2025Poster Josef Israels Goupil Gallery
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2015Design tracings (1875) (14776435491)
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2013PP D266 Poster by louis baumer
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2021Lille maison 6 place bethune
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2024فرار از تله (پوستر)
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2016Logo Kunstmuseen Krefeld
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2012Charming, colour-soaked paintings on aluminium from Keer Tanchak
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2025De la Cruz-Lim Residence 10
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 1487
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2024Rouge Benefit Dance Poster - Salvation Jane
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2019Alex Goddard's latest short shows what really happens when "absence makes the heart grow fonder"
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2017Mushpit explores social media anxiety in new exhibition Interiority Complex
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2016Antwerp-based designer Ward Heirwegh’s experimental portfolio of projects for the arts
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2013Photography: Classical statues + hipster garb = genius from Léo Caillard
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2013Sculpture: Andy Rementer is back and OH MY GOSH his work has gone 3D
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2012Check out the delicate (potentially NSFW) stylings of photographer Adrien Toubiana
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2010Fanzinepaper
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2013Photography: Bobby Scheidemann's new series is a nod to the insta-generation
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2020Berlin’s Contemporary C**t Collective shine a light on Drag Syndrome in the latest issue of King Kong Garçon
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2018Artist Melissa Kitty Jarram is updating Greek myths for 2018
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2019Michael Cox's latest paintings turn the artist's attention to the comfort of suburbia
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2016Saatchi Gallery's new women-only Champagne Life show: less fizz, more fizzle?
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2012Antonio Ladrillo's new show Crash takes him an abstract new direction
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2010Lead Pencil Studio
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2013Publication: Digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal celebrated in new book
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2012What's On: Picasso & Modern British Art
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2011Ninian Doff: Staring Out The Window
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2014Artiva Design's bold black and white catalogue for contemporary art show
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2015Italian art mag Mousse continues to wow with its 50th issue
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2017Ten contemporary Manga artists reshaping the eminent Japanese comic scene
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2012Andrew Lyons' illustration is shaped by a passion for music
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2020Alice Oates poster 1879
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2018De activiste met een poster, Bestanddeelnr 926-8762
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2018Printed Pages AW18 feat. Sascha Lobe, Alex Prager, Hassan Hajjaj and more is out now
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2013PP D220 poster by james litton for a theatrical production
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2017EAM-poster-greece-dec-1944 (2)
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2010Iron Horse Poster
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2018Fixed 6x13
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2024Are You A Communist posters
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2021Shining Nikki logo
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL FETE 39
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2014Lying Lips Poster 1939
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2016Review of the Year 2016: musician Toro y Moi
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2010Edward Burra
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2015Incisive and tactile new work by illustrator Riikka Laakso
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2010Hara Kiri Magazine
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2012Museum Studio
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2018How Alice Tye tackled the daunting task of painting a portrait of Gilbert and George
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2015Highlights from London's largest ever photography fair, Photo London
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2014Illustration: Former Student of the Month Katie Scott has some incredible new work on show
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2024Gao Hang gets really close up to video game characters, then paints them
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2012Rob Lowe, better known as Supermundane, talks about his super minimal new show
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2020Balam is a contemporary photography magazine championing Latin American artists
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2013Not seen Wilfrid Wood lately? He's been busy sculpting Tom Daley
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2021A place of refuge, Lydia Goldblatt’s new series is a gentle contemplation on loss and uncertainty
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2013Photography: Fresh faced oddities courtesy of Nicolas Coulomb
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2014Photography: A modern take on an old photography technique by Kasia Wozniak
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2022“A kind of theatre”: Photographer Diego Saldiva on the decline of televised wrestling and the rise of Youtube street duels
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2013Art: Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones' Gates of Hell mural
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2013Art: Zadok Ben David creates carpets of hand-cut aluminium sculptures
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2019“My pictures give you an image of your future memory”: Thomas Demand in conversation with It’s Nice That
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2016Artist Kirsty Harris revisits the CND protests from a personal perspective
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2013Crane.tv give us a great glimpse into paper sculptor Li Hongbo's studio
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2012Superbly intense photographer Diana Kunst is our new ABSOLUT Network profile
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2014Exhibitions: Bondage and Patti Smith in Paris' new Robert Mapplethorpe show
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2019Richard Kovacs’ experimental images of Albania reflect the ambiguity of the country
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2016#currentmood, and the art that reflects our strange social media revelations
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2018Soufiane Ababri's vibrant drawings are driven by political activism
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2008New Exhibition
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2019“I've just always liked drawing people”: Haley Tippmann on her observational illustrations
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2015Nuts Dan Deacon video shows what your saucy chairs get up to when you're out...
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2013Eley Kishimoto creates a set of prints inspired by London's unloved Centre Point
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2014Publication: The new Stephen Powers book documents all of his incredible mural paintings so far!
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2023Filip Custic explores the intimate dynamic between tech and our bodies
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2019Illustrator Oliver Macdonald Oulds tells us why he’s currently fixating on wire fences
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2016Alan Fears’ papier mâché heads are a humorous portrait of ourselves
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2012Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
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2017BAME and female artist programme The Laundry's taboo-conquering new exhibition
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2018The ninth Asian Pacific Triennial’s features an undoubtedly impressive roster
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2019A new Studio Swine exhibition in Brooklyn shines a light on – light
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20092009 Review: Tao Lin
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2021Embroidery artist Nicole Chui is reimagining the possibilities of her medium
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2020Rohan Chaurasia on how his childhood in Thailand influences his design practice, exploring mundanity and animism
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2014Akasha Rabut's portraits of modern day cheerleaders and marching bands
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2019Fragility, despair and boredom are the pillars to Madeleine Pfull’s paintings of elderly women
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2013You know them as VLF but Thomas Cristiani and Antoine Roux do art too
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2013Studio Audience – Series Three Episode 19 with Apple and Outsider Art
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2016Ewen Spencer on new commission, Kick over the statues
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2024Casals Forum, festival poster
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2011What's On: PA/PER VIEW
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2015Design tracings (1875) (14799194763)
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2019The latest series by Israeli art collective Broken Fingaz showcases a contemporary twist on traditional oil painting
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2017Madrid design studio Naranjo — Etxeberria on the refreshing new issue of Neo2 magazine
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2023Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching
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2014Illustration: We catch up with killer illustrator Edward Tuckwell to peruse his new portfolio
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2015Clean lines and surreal breastfeeding with illustrator Lennard Kok
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2013Geometric loveliness from Belgian artist Jelle Martens
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2021Spinning Yarns: how African textiles tell personal and universal tales
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2010Tin Tin
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2022“When all the information’s there, it’s not as fun”: artist Jasmine Monsegue on the intriguing effect of airbrush
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2009Milan Furniture Fair
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2015Upcoming Eduardo Paolozzi exhibition pairs key works with his daughter’s designs
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2012OK-RM absolutely nail Kaleidoscope's new contemporary Africa art issue
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2022“I have an aversion to the traditional idea of beauty”: Amanda Ba on her purposefully unsettling paintings
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2020“Design is never an innocent practice”: The Royal Studio brings political context into its projects
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2012