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De Nerée and Luisa Casati

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Published: March 10, 2025 16:30

Luisa Casati (1922) by Man Ray. Today’s post is another in the series of irregular art essays by Sander Bink. The subject this time is Luisa Casati (1881–1957), the Italian heiress who burnt through a fortune living extravagantly while being drawn or…

Weekend links 768

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Published: March 8, 2025 19:00

The Mona Lisa as it looks run through the Random Pixelate setting in Glitch Lab. • “We don’t have enough Dada in this world of too much data. Something is needed to break-through the over-curated simulacrum that is the online world in order to let in a bit…

Mazes, a film by István Orosz

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Published: March 5, 2025 16:30

Until last week I didn’t know Hungarian artist István Orosz had been making short animated films since the 1970s. I’ve known about Orosz’s Escher-like drawings for some time but missed the mention of the films in this interview with Steven Heller.…

Documents d’atelier: Art décoratif moderne

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Published: March 3, 2025 16:30

These collections would have been useful when I was mining my Art Nouveau reference books while working on the Bumper Book of Magic. Documents d’atelier is a two-volume overview of the Nouveau idiom as it manifested throughout the worlds of art and design,…

Weekend links 767

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Published: March 1, 2025 19:00

East Totem West head shop poster, from DJ Food‘s latest delve into the psychedelic poster auctions. • The week in science-fiction illustration: Joachim Boaz on Rodger B. MacGowan’s “approachable New Wave art”; and Andrew Liptak talks to Adam Rowe about…

The Return, a film by Jerzy Kucia

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Published: February 26, 2025 16:30

“Jerzy is the greatest among the living—the greatest Polish author of animated films that is still alive.” So says Piotr Dumala, a formidable animator in his own right, in a video discussion of Jerzy Kucia’s films. The first of these, The Return (1972), is…

The art of Nikolai Petrovich Theophilaktoff, 1878–1941

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Published: February 24, 2025 16:30

I’m taking the biographical details about this Russian artist from a Christie’s listing, accuracy being of particular importance to auction houses. The trouble with searching for information about Nikolai Theophilaktoff is that he’s one of those Russians…

Weekend links 766

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Published: February 22, 2025 19:00

The Fantod Pack (1995): a Gorey take on the Tarot deck. • A happy 100th birthday to Edward Gorey. I was hoping to link once again to Gorey’s appearance on the Dick Cavett Show from 1977 (a rare TV interview) but it’s one of those things that’s no longer…

Hon by Yasmine Hamdan

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Published: February 19, 2025 16:30

If you’ve seen Jim Jarmusch’s vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive, you may remember the scene near the end where the film stops for a moment in Tangier that so that Yasmine Hamdan, a Lebanese singer, can perform one of her songs. I’ve got the soundtrack…

Gwenaël Rattke record covers

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Published: February 17, 2025 16:30

Muscle Up (2015) by Patrick Cowley. This post is partly a reminder to myself that I’m still missing the last two Patrick Cowley album releases on the Dark Entries label. Dark Entries have distinguished themselves over the past few years by compiling…