Frida Kahlo by visual artist Karen Cantuq, who was inspired by the official Lego artist portraits of Marco Sodano (Including Van Gogh, above).
They’re best when you squint.
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From ‘The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual’ by Simon Rich and Farley Katz.
‘Thread paintings’ by 21 year old Victoria Rose Richards from Devon: tight straight lines and French knots emulating the ploughed fields and hedgerows of her rural home.
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Bassins de Lumières – a 13,000-square metre former German and Italian WW2 submarine base at Bordeaux – soon to be the world’s largest digital art centre.
In April 2020, French art events management company Culturespaces will open the huge facility to the public, hosting immersive exhibitions of classical and contemporary art on the walls and beneath the surface of four water filled basins.
A supreme, yet to be bested example of cosplay from 2016 featuring the two CGI characters from Dire Straits’ 1985 ‘Money For Nothing’ video.
Ingrid Casey tweets:
…my pal @clairemurphyart has made an incredible installation, reflecting on the Essex lorry victims, as part of @galerie_inspire winter group show this Thursday, 6pm, Lwr Gardiner St. How can we get some press for it.
Ask and you shall receive.
Figures from classical paintings deftly inserted into the modern world by Ukrainian artist Alexei Kondakov.
Related: Second Life (similar works by French artist Blase)
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Meditations of the Berlin Wall by artist Diane Meyer in which present day photographs are meticulously hand-stitched, blurring those parts of the scene that were once bisected or obscured by the wall.
UPDATE: Why the artist has stitched the wall on the Pariser Platz side of the Brandenburg Gate and not the opposite side (well spotted James in comments) is anyone’s guess.
