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Street artist Ivan Orama is at it again, depicting polarizing celebrities and controversial public icons as McDonalds Restaurant’s clown mascot, Ronald McDonald. Previous victims have included Kim and Kanye, Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson, so it was only a matter of time until candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, Donald Trump (a clown if there ever was one) received the Ivanorama treatment.
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I saw this cheerful little sticker somewhere on 11th Avenue when I was on an afternoon gallery crawl in Chelsea last week. It appears to be part of the 100 Day Project, which you can read more about at This Link!
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You can be sure that we all did a double-take when we passed this statue at The Met this past weekend, because, seriously, doesn’t it look like this marble statue is checking her Instagram feed or catching up on Tweets?
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Life Wants to Live 7 and 11 (All Photos By Gail)
I wasn’t surprised to learn that painter Phil Hale used to illustrate books for Stephen King, because his paintings delicately embrace the dreamlike, foreboding essence of a horror novel. Simultaneously compelling and repellent, Hale creates imagined visual tableaus “derived from images appropriated from the internet and analogue archives.” The exhibit’s accompanying press release reveals that “this new series of paintings and drawings are an artifact of the instability and uncertainty that characterizes our era.” Amen to that.
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