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Remembering the Slip: the Manhattan street that birthed a generation of artists – then was demolished | Art and design books

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woman works with yarn

The cover of Prudence Peiffer’s new book, The Slip, features the kind of photograph New York City dreams are made of. In the 1958 shot, taken by Hans Namuth, a bohemian-looking group – many of […]

Chrissy Teigen Shows Off The Ketamine-Inspired Art Hanging In Her Home

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A look at the butterfly-inspired artwork in Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's home.

Some of the artwork in Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s California home has an interesting backstory. The “Cravings” cookbook author and her Grammy Award-winning husband told an anecdote about an art installation in their house […]

Girls, boys, art, pleasure! Italy’s paninaro subculture rides again | Music

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Ramon Verdoia.

On a sultry June afternoon the tables of a snack bar in Foglizzo, a small town in northern Italy, fill up with a dozen men riding motorbikes and dressed in colourful apparel. It’s a gang […]

‘Bastion of the super-rich’: inside a New York billionaire’s private museum | Art

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Solow building

It was Fleet Week in New York City, and something unusual was taking place on Billionaires’ Row. At 9 West 57th Street, an elegant black sloping skyscraper towering over the Plaza hotel and the half-dozen […]

Dürer painted himself at centre of Renaissance altarpiece in revenge, research finds | Art

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A detail showing Dürer’s self portrait from the only surviving copy of the Heller altarpiece.

The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron after a bitter row over pay by placing his own self-portrait in a 1500s altarpiece that he painted for him, according to research. The Nuremberg […]

‘Squaring the Circle’ review: The zenith of rock album art

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'Squaring the Circle' review: The zenith of rock album art

In the vinyl heyday, record-buying was a thrilling process. You rushed home, got the plastic off, let that waxy disc slide carefully out so it met your thumb at the edge and middle finger at […]

‘Beyoncé is wearing my jeans!’ Markus Klinko’s best shot | Art and design

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Photographer Markus Klinko for My Best Shot

I was a classical concert harpist before I became a photographer. I studied at the Paris conservatoire and signed with EMI Classics. Then, in 1994, aged 33, a hand injury prevented me from playing. I […]

Berghain Bouncer Sven Marquardt brings photo exhibit to NY Art Week

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Berghain Bouncer Sven Marquardt brings photo exhibit to NY Art Week

Berlin nightlife icon Sven Marquardt has announced his DISTURBING BEAUTY New York Art Week photo exhibition at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn May 18-21. In collaboration with New York nightlife impresarios Teksupport, DISTURBING BEAUTY will see the Berlin […]