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30 Nov

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 take a look at the sweetness 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 consistently 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 final word investigation into this concept. Curated by Janice Li, the show investigates how morality, status, health, age, race and gender...
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26 Oct

Amber Pinkerton’s latest exhibition explores her secret innermost thoughts

Amber Pinkerton’s latest exhibition explores her secret innermost thoughts
‘You enter an area that needs to be like my mind’: the artist’s debut solo exhibition, Self Dialogues: Hard Food, spans photography, installation, film and audio to delve into her interior world Behind a mahogany and oak-beaded curtain, light pours through the steeple-like ceiling of central London gallery Alice Black, evoking communion. Fleshy pink paint licks the partitions where Jamaica-born, London-based artist Amber Pinkerton’s debut solo exhibition, Self Dialogues: Hard Food, opened earlier this month. The pink imbues the gallery with a cerebral quality as Pinkerton’s voice punctuates its stillness. A monologue unfurls from a set of speakers, so intimate in its content that it looks like reading her diary: “The mind is...
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8 Sep

François Nars Explores Inspirations in Latest Documentary – WWD

François Nars Explores Inspirations in Latest Documentary – WWD
After creating a worldwide makeup brand, overseeing editorials for magazines, and publishing a photograph book on his private island off the coast of Bora-Bora, François Nars is taking to the silver screen for his latest project.  As Nars Cosmetics, now owned by Shiseido, gears as much as have fun its thirtieth anniversary, the French-born makeup artist, photographer and inventive director of the brand has made a documentary about his life, work and most of all his inspiration, particularly in cinema, called “Unknown Beauty: François Nars.” Nevertheless it won't be what you expect as he’s replaced the same old talking heads structure with footage of screen sirens similar to Catherine Deneuve and Marlene Dietrich, comprising 85 percent of the documentary.  “I actually desired to...
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9 Jul

The Manic American Humanist Show explores life on the

The Manic American Humanist Show explores life on the
Going down at Public Works Administration in Latest York, the exhibition features works by core members of the web collective Do Not Research From the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests to the meme magick within the run as much as the 2016 Trump election and the emergence of the Dirtbag Left in the course of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s a recent breed of American citizen emerging. Their political impulses can now not be neatly mapped onto the X-Y axis of the political compass, nor are you able to tell their political allegiances by how they dress and the places they hang around. The Overton window has cracked open and given method to...
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