A Safe Space for Unsafe Ideas
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Dr. Mildred Pipkins would have had a bad day were it not for the letter she received that evening. It was the day of the Buckstaberry Art Academy’s annual staff awards ceremony. From the moment she woke up, she tried not to think about the ceremony. Dr. Pipkins started the day as any other. She
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A visceral, ritualistic essay-performance exploring motherhood, obsession, and the obscene.
Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, digital artist, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, textile artist, and freelance journalist.
Barbara van Ittersum works between staged fiction and portraiture and creates psychologically and psychopathically charged visual scenes called Barbarizsm.
Before Iran began charging for the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was charging Iran — and no one was paying.
"Not merely more gas, we've had quite enough of left wing wind and art-talk guff."
There’s no abuse, so don’t confuse it. Just don’t make me bleed.
A theological reflection on bona fide aesthetics — the artwork as the incarnation of the divine.