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Chris Brown: Is Ignorance Actually Bliss?

December 11, 2021December 10, 2021 Taryn

Chris Brown is a multi-platinum artist, father, and Grammy Award Winner, whose music has been an R&B staple for nearly two decades now. However, amongst all of that, he is also a serial assaulter and criminal who has been having major legal troubles since 2009. Yes, his music is good

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Inspirations of a Serial Killer III: Various Interviews

December 17, 2018February 14, 2021 Elizabeth Montague-Jones

John Gacy, a horrific serial killer artist who would dress up and perform as a clown at children’s birthday events, finally spoke out after nearly thirteen years of silence. His artworks previously displayed in prior articles would go for a fetching rate by those that love to collect as what

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How Anish Kapoor Triggered the Art Community

December 2, 2018February 14, 2021 Daniel Teeling

The art community is generally an open and collaborative space in which artists borrow from each other’s ideas to push boundaries and innovate. Because of this, it might come as a surprise to hear that Anish Kapoor has exclusive license to use the substance Vantablack. This material, developed by Surrey

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Animals Were Harmed in The Production of This Art

November 30, 2018February 14, 2021 Aubrey Schafer

In a lot of ways, art is meant to provoke the audience, to call attention to underlying issues, and to blur the line between the socially acceptable and the socially condemnable. However, there are many instances in which the artist takes extremist measures in the development of their art, leading

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Joan Cornella: Offensive Cartoons at Its Best

November 23, 2018February 14, 2021 Da Yeoun Moon

Joan Cornella’s cartoons are not afraid to offend. Joan Cornella is a massively popular Spanish cartoonist infamous for themes of political and social criticism in his simplistic cartoon drawings. To a new viewer, his artworks seem jovial and harmless at first. However, as you begin to look closely into the

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Inspirations of A Serial Killer II:Psychologist Perspective

November 1, 2018February 14, 2021 Elizabeth Montague-Jones

Look at some of you coming back for part two. You just could not get enough of the tortured souls of a serial killer’s inspirational conception process in relation to their additional hobbies of artistic variations, besides that of their murderous pleasures. What does that say about you and the

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Inspirations of A Serial Killer I: Mental Thoughts

October 28, 2018February 14, 2021 Elizabeth Montague-Jones

It may be shocking to discover, but many serial killers have additional hobbies of artistic varieties, besides that of committing heinous crimes. Just as artists have been considered to have tortured souls and under perpetual pressures placed on them by their spirits of ingenuity, the same holds true for serial

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Let’s Play a Game: What’s in the Paint?

October 13, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

For a moment, I’d like you, the reader, to imagine yourself as an artist. You are more than likely an intellectual, capable of viewing the world from a multitude of perspectives beyond that of the average person. Perhaps you are conservative in your work, meticulous in planning, and take months

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Sophie Calle is Invading Everyone’s Privacy (Kind of)

December 2, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Sophie Calle is an installation artist, photographer and writer from France. Her projects often explore the relationship between someone’s private life and public persona, and the concept of these two in general. Calle is known for going to great lengths to inspect people’s private lives for her work. One project

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Her best performance yet?

December 1, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Marina Abramovic is touted as one of the most notable perfomance artists. She is nearly 70, and has an extensive profile of work. I recall vividly two of her works. The first features her and a lover, with an arrow poised to shoot at her. It’s part of a greater

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