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Decades Ago, Pharmaceutical Drugs Were Advertised Using Fear, and It Wasn’t Subtle

In the postwar era, pharmaceutical print advertising, especially for psychiatric drugs, was blunt, graphic, and often disturbing, using fear and…

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Moving to West Berlin, David Bowie and Iggy Pop found unexpected inspiration in German Expressionism, most notably in the form…

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The version of romanticism truly unique to the 21st century experience may have already come from a lesser-known Swedish artist…

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In the summer of 1981, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi left Tokyo on a self-directed journey through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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London-based artist Louis Pohl Koseda is emerging as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of contemporary British life. His intricate,…

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Art collector Désiré Feuerle has spent a lifetime dissolving the boundaries between ancient and contemporary Asian art. Having transformed an…

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Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…

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Across the history of Renaissance Art, the mysterious Dutch printmaker Hercules Seghers is perhaps the most innovative–and relatively unknown.