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illustration by Brandon Friend

Hip-Hop Hip-Hop Hip-Hop!!!
Here’s a solid collection of tracks from the smooth, catchy deliciousness known as ONRA (Arnaud Bernard), an extremely talented hip-hop artist based in Paris, France.
Check out more of his music HERE!

Amazing short from animator Erick Oh

one of my fav shorts from the Czech animator Jiri Trnka. A parable of an artist working under a totalitarian regime. A few months after his death the government banned this film and confiscated all the copies of it and locked it away for 20 years. A masterpiece of stop motion animation and character study. And here is a link to a article about Jiri Trnka

An incredible, brand new installation made from 1,000 bicycles by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who emerged four months ago from a prolonged detention by the Chinese government. The installation is one of 21 artworks on display as part of “Ai Weiwei Absent,” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and runs through January 29th.

ROYAL BANGS
Song: War Bells
Album: Let It Beep (2009)
City Slang Records

At the opening of George Hugnet’s The Love Life of the Spumifers at UBU Gallery last night, an older gentleman made a comment to my friend and I that ‘nothing changes – beauty stays the same from age to age.’ While that comment has provided fodder to many fiery debates, it cuts to the heart of what Hugnet offers us: Damsels, Demons, and Sex. These images activate our intrinsic fascination with beauty and the grotesque, and more specifically, our desire to see the fusion of the two.

November 16, 2011 – January 28, 2012

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All images © ADAGP & Myrtille Hugnet

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