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May 2024

19 May

This exhibition explores evolving beauty ideals – and the

This exhibition explores evolving beauty ideals – and the
The Cult of Beauty exhibition on the Wellcome Collection takes an in-depth have a look at the wonder industry and our ever-changing understanding of what it means to be beautiful What does it mean to be beautiful? Throughout history, this difficult query has been always challenged. Across different cultures and times, ideas of beauty have differed and today with the prominence of social media in our culture the cycles of beauty trends have never been so fast. Opening this week on the Wellcome Collection in London, The Cult of Beauty is the last word investigation into this concept. Curated by Janice Li, the show investigates how morality, status, health, age, race and gender...
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19 May

Artist and DJ Doooo finds beauty in flesh along

Artist and DJ Doooo finds beauty in flesh along
From coin purses mouths to severed finger stamps, Doooo’s human flesh items transform the mundane into the uncanny From digital artists to photographers, body sculptors and hair stylists to make-up and nail artists, in our Highlight series, we profile the creatives tearing up the rulebook of their respective industries. You might have seen them on social media. Perfectly formed parts of the body, floating, detached from their usual fleshy context, that are then revealed to be bizarre, on a regular basis items. An anatomically precise jaw complete with teeth and stubble opening up and having coins inserted into it, a severed finger unveiled as a stamp, a nose-shaped shot glass.   It’s uncanny. Absolutely the mundanity of...
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