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February 25, 2013 Eugene Reznik

New York-based artist Asger Carlsen makes these beautifully-toned monochrome portraits Edward Weston could be proud of, but there’s a caveat — his subjects are horrifying mutant humanoids, “slabs of what appears to be human tissue wrapped in skin and supported by bone.” Impossible and grotesque but so hyperrealistic, they are hard to look away from. […]

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February 19, 2013 Andy Cush

There’s something oddly poetic about the complexities of governmental bureaucracy and law–just ask David Foster Wallace and Terry Gilliam. German information designer Oliver Bieh-Zimmert has taken that idea to its logical, literal conclusion with his Network of the German Civil Code, an installation piece that puts the titular country’s notoriously complicated Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ca. 1896 up on the wall (all 2,385 […]

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February 14, 2013 Andy Cush

Designer Derrick Cruz created this appropriately creepy, minimal bust of Ian Curtis, which shows the late Joy Division singer emerging, face-only, from a 10-inch solid porcelain block. He’s also made perhaps the artsiest Kickstarter video of all time in hopes of getting the thing funded, which you can watch above. Cruz is no stranger to […]

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February 1, 2013 Marina Galperina

These babies are more prepared for the future than your babies. Those cooling folds in the skull will come in handy when global warming get worse. The extra puffy cheeks increase the “absorption of food, drugs and caffeine.” The sharp nose? Aerodynamic. The bloody dangling cluster of nerves where a toe should be? Um… Not sure about […]

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January 2, 2013 Marina Galperina

So, there’s a bit of fuss over semi-retired Italian prankster-artist Maurizio Cattelan’s HIM… again. The 2001 sculpture of Adolf Hitler was recently installed in a former Warsaw ghetto alley. It can only be viewed through a small peephole in a rotting gate, looking like a small praying boy. Poland’s chief rabbi Michael Schudrich approved the installation for […]

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