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Arts and Culture

Coniuncto By Christian Rex Van Minnen

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If you’ve seen the 1987 horror movie Hellraiser, you probably remember the Butterball Cenobite: one of the minor demon characters charged with dragging people to Hell. If you can’t conjure an image of his likeness from memory, he looked like this: Please Click Me.  To me, the wildly surreal portraits comprising Christian Rex Van Minnen’s recent exhibit, Coniuncto  look like they could be Butterball’s contemporary relatives, albeit with tattoos and jewel-toned gummy candies hovering over their mutant visages. At the very least, this series of paintings  encourages wildly imaginative extrapolation, and that’s what good art is all about!
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Eye On Design: Mutant Fashion From The X-Men’s Hellfire Gala

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Storm (All Images Courtesy of Marvel Comics)

In this week’s Design post, we are going to step out a bit and have some fun exploring the world of the X-Men comics, checking out what all the cool Mutants wear when they head out to do some serious partying!

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Rogue

This June, the Hellfire Trading Company invites readers everywhere to the inaugural Hellfire Gala to announce the first team of Krakoan X-Men to the world and unveil the startling plans that mutantkind has in store for the Marvel Universe. The Hellfire Gala will unfold in issues of your favorite ongoing X-Men series as well as Planet-Size X-Men, a special double-sized one-shot. These twelve issues will all center around a single night that will go down in Marvel Comics history and while it’s too early to reveal the world-shattering steps mutantkind is about to take, one thing is for certain: the X-Men have never looked better!

More Mutant Couture, After The Jump!

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Logan 23 T-Shirt

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Logan T Shirt

Buy this rad design by KKTEE on a T Shirt, Hoodie or Other Swag, starting at just $19.95, at This Link!

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Stefan Stux Gallery Presents Akikazu Iwamoto Secret Candy

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Akikazu Iwamoto Secret Candy
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If you are a fan of Surrealism, Japanese Manga, human bio-mechanical mutants or warped and unfathomably violent animated shows such as Super Jail, then you might want to stop over at the Stux Gallery on West 25th Street to check out Japanese artist Akikazu Iwamoto’s new collection of fantasy paintings entitled Secret Candy. Continue reading Stefan Stux Gallery Presents Akikazu Iwamoto Secret Candy →

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Face Off Episode 410 Recap: Alien Apocalypse!

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Defiance Producer / Co-Creator Kevin Murphy with McKenzie Westmore

Tonight’s Episode (Airdate March 19, 2013): Alien Apocalypse

Ah, we’re down to the Final Four at last, and what a handsome lot they are: Anthony, Eric, Kris and Wayne. Anthony really thought he was going home last week, but House threw himself on his sword so that Anthony could live to sketch, sculpt, mold and paint another day. The remaining contestants all know one more person goes home before the finale. Who will get chopped tonight? Continue reading Face Off Episode 410 Recap: Alien Apocalypse! →