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Book cover for Stan Barstow‘s novel ‘A Kind of Loving’ (1967)


Jan van der Heyden

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‘An architectural fantasy’ (ca. 1663) by Jan van der Heyden


Jorge Pardo

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Jorge Pardo, ‘Me and my mum’ (1991)

A refabrication of Le Corbusier’s classic chair and loveseat using industrial copper tubing, rather than the polished steel tubes that form the core of the original.


Daan van Golden

Daan van Golden . Composition with blue square-1964

Daan van Golden, ‘Composition with blue square’ (1964)


Zhang Qiang

Zhang Qiang, ‘Duchamp’s Ferris Wheel’ (2011)

“Forever” Brand Bicycle, Cast Iron and Stool


Reynald Drouhin

‘Black out’ (2006) by Reynald Drouhin. (after Brian de Palma’s Blow Out)


Brian Khek


‘Homer’s Venus de Gummy’, by Brian Khek


Olof Olsson

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‘Ready-mades on wheels’ (1993) by Olof Olsson

is an attempt to make ‘classic’ modern sculptures.


Cindy Sherman

 

‘Doll clothes’ (1975) by Cindy Sherman. One of Cindy Sherman’s first super-8 films.


Kalup Linzy

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Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Clermont, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Linzy was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007. Linzy’s best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage.

Kalup Linzy, excerpt from ‘Keys to our heart’ (2008)

Interview here

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