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American singer and actor, Janelle Monáe has showcased several distinctive headpieces and hairstyles throughout her career, often collaborating with designers like the design duo David and Phillipe Blond, known creatively as The Blonds. For the of June 2023 cover of Rolling Stone, Monae wore The Blonds’ gold and crystal Super Freak chain headpiece.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Super Freak Chain Headpiece By The Blonds
Al Jourgensen is finally making peace with the past. After the incredible reception to Ministry’s With Sympathy and Twitch-heavy set at Cruel World 2024, Jourgensen decided it was time to reexamine his long-dormant synth pop hits and give them a fresh polish 40 years later. The result is the forthcoming album, The Squirrely Years Revisited, out March 28 via Cleopatra Records. Continue reading Ministry Announces The Squirrely Years Revisited Out March 28 Via Cleopatra Records
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In Sunday Morning (1940), artist Emil Kosa Jr. (1903 –1968) captures a quiet scene with people arriving at a little church in the California countryside. In wagons and on foot, they gather from all around, many coming down the hill from the houses we can see in the distant background.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Emil Kosa Jr. Sunday Morning
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Kathe Burkhart is an artist and writer who uses images and text to, in her words, “articulate a radical female subject.” She considers this confrontational, sensual work, entitled Fuck You: From The Liz Taylor Series (After Bert Stern) (1984), to be the first fully realized canvas in this series, which has been ongoing since 1982. The large-scale, richly saturated paintings combine appropriated portraits of actress Elizabeth Taylor (here, in a shot of her as Cleopatra taken by Bert Stern for Vogue magazine in 1962) with profane language, shattering both female stereotypes and conventions of representation. Taylor was a controversial feminist figure throughout her career, conveying equal parts bravura, sexual power, and vulnerability. Burkhart — collapsing the genres of portraiture and self-portraiture — treated the actress as a figure for her own life in the diary-like narrative series.
Photographed at The Art Institute Chicago.
Legendary Actress Elizabeth Taylor has passed away at the age of 79. RIP Liz.
