We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...

  At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...

In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”  In Sig...

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I have always been into drawing portraits and try to search for new inspirations. Recently, my love for nature and flowers was incorporated into my art with these “Portraits with Flowers” concept. I hope you like them.

You hurt me  more than words can speak You shattered my heart In more peices that youll ever see You told me i would fly Then you threw me out of the sky I loved the sound of your gorgeous lies I was so consumed by the pretty words from your mouth I didn't see the knife A dagger  Pointed at my heart Look in my eyes  Your Synister eyes kept me captive I didn't have time to react You stabbed me I...

The ‘Ode’, one of the most popular poetic verses, has its origins in Ancient Greece. The generic term ‘ode’ is derived from the Greek word ‘oide’ which referred to any poem that was to be formed into a song and sung in public. M.H Abrams defines the ode as “A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.” The steady rhythmi...

 by Katya Kan “This is a body described through the language of surface and force, weakened through a "Single drama" of domination, inscription, and creation.”    Judith Butler, “Subversive Bodily Acts”   Dear Gallery, Congrats on your delicious salary. And your unlabelled sexuality ...  Watch this uncultivated space At your own pace  Mouth-wateringly hypnotic: Your queer narcotic  Those sugar...

A mock-up of my Tarot deck concept, for a classic Rider-Waite with a cute and playful doggie twist. Follow my Insta @m_rose_snow

This textile tapestry is called ‘Pilgrim’ which forms part of a series I have worked during lockdown. My aim is to make a series of six portraits of men with tattoos and how they portray themselves through instagram.I use the traditional medium of textiles to create my work. I like that textiles have historically beenused to assert identity. Depending on the material, the print and the texture;...

It is about the Turkish custom of the heart of a person and there is a spot a black spot at birth from in the womb where our soul our essence starts and where the purest of love resides it will stay with you and is there to the end when you die in that very spot Suveyda.

https://www.madelinemace.com/performanceThis is part of a series of artwork that was born out of the early months of quarantine during 2020. The series titled, “Reconciliation with the Color Pink” is an effort to obtain control over my inner and outer environments during 2020.Poem of the artwork:pink walls color capsule of my wombi was raisedthe walls are watching listening they don’t defend m...

That’s the curious pull of Shiloh Dynasty – we can’t square her in our heads because she is a somebody and a nobody all at once...

When researching Febueder, the avante-something duo from Ascott, UK, I found disarray firmly planted on their web bio. And how manic is it? You decide. Listeners are still working out what on earth they’re up to.

There is something about a man who carries around a prosthetic of his own head at a gala while dripping in Gucci. It’s not just me, is it?

Sometimes I Be Introvert, a frequently impressive piece of music, strains to capture the complex world that Simz wants to fix.

This is the story of how I listened to this six-hour work in one sitting, and came closer to existential dread than I think I will ever want to. Ever.

Without him, part of hip hop’s journey to the mainstream wouldn’t have been as heartfelt or seductive...

Who doesn’t love a healthy dose of female rage? It’s a real palette-cleanser.

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

Tumblr page Heavenly Wings & Heart reveals that one spouse tapped into their past lives and discovered they had two children with Hermes centuries ago

  Crash’s cover makes me smile. You might prefer the deluxe take in which Charli XCX, crouched slightly further from us, is caked in blood, her hair in gore-licked strands. But I like the surreal perfection of Charli the popstar, unmarked and glamorous, cracking your windshield on a clear day. It’s as if we have driven into her unexpectedly and she’s none the worse for it. Actually, she’s comi...

Note: contains spoilers for web series Local58I hate opening with statistics – unless of course, they’re jaw-dropping. In its first month, a recent found footage video called The Backrooms hit a staggering 15M views after its upload to YouTube. That’s a reach of roughly half a million hits every day. And let’s bear in mind, this isn’t the latest drop from Ariana Grande, or MrBeast putting main...

Just over a year ago, then CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, sold his first tweet as an NFT for $2.9M. It wasn’t just his first tweet, of course, it was the first tweet, which as auctions go for Crypto- and NFT-heads was about as appealing as a hunk of sourdough to a famished goose. The nearly $3M sale was a welcome green flag to early advocates in the NFT space that the winds of blockchainge (sorry...

Will Toledo is a furry. He came out onstage in Brooklyn, dressed as Mortis Jackrabbit, a gasmasked mammal with a coat like an old fox. His eyes glowed, plucked from a Fallout dream. Limbering up to ‘Bodys’, one of the best songs by his quite good band, Car Seat Headrest – and we can only assume with a smirk beneath the mask – he looked as if he was just getting used to himself at last. “Do yo...

It happens at once, together, like a murmuration of starlings changing course. There’s a young guy onstage, his face long and stabby and white as a...

Musical improvisation with a Selloum (Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum; reclassified from Philodendron bipinnatifidum)Have you ever wanted to make music with your plants? Biosonification is the process of turning biological data into music or sound. Here, I use a midi device that runs electricity through electrodes attached to the plant. The device reads changes in micro-conductivity, or how wel...

Getting screwed by an artist never felt so pricey. But one day, you may find yourself somewhere special with someone who can’t get their hand off your junk. Neither can you. Kissing and blind, you hush them off with a grin. They stop. You know what they’re thinking. It’s the first time they’ve been at your place, but they’re really knowledgeable about you. Sometimes you achieve radical insigh...

 With so many brands and configurations of the best-selling tattoo needles on the market, it can be difficult to know which one is right for you, as the right setup depends on your style and preferences. But first, it is important to understand all types of tattoo needles and their functions.    Special Tattoo Cartridges offer advantages that traditional rod needles do not have, as using a car...