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All images by Dean Kissick How to Escape the 21st Century: Adam Curtis Talks to Dean Kissick
The planet’s most beguiling documentary maker and the world’s least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about.
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View of the mementum labs installation in the exhibition “From Spam to Slop” presented in November 2025 at L'Avant Galerie Vossen, Paris Brainrot Copyright: Could Tung Tung Tung Sahur Become the Next Mickey Mouse?
Mementum Lab co-founder Eben Jeda speaks to us about the thorny issue of creating corporate IP for generative AI characters.
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Image: Artwork for 'private music' by Deftones. Designer Frank Maddocks Draws a Portal into Deftones’ Hidden World
A special interview with the man who has been guiding the way people feel about Deftones for 25 years.
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Photo by Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk Rare 200-Year-Old Condom Goes on Display at Dutch Museum
A Dutch museum decided to put quite an unusual object on display in its most recent exhibit—a 19th century condom.
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All images supplied by Saad Khan The Strange Propaganda Art That the U.S. Military Drops From the Sky
Archivist Saad Khan is collecting the messages intended to forewarn, frighten, or demoralize enemy fighters and local populations.
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Photo by Jose Luis Pelaez Inc via Getty Images Child Visiting Museum Damages Painting Worth $50M
A child visiting a museum in the Netherlands caused damage to a painting that’s believed to be valued around $50 million.
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Weed baggies found on the streets of NYC by photographer Vincent Pflieger Archiving New York’s Weed Baggies
Frenchman Vincent Pflieger is turning stoner garbage into an art project.
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InkPoster 31.5'' Klimt – Credit InkPoster This Digital Art Poster Looks so Real, You Can Almost Smell the Patchouli of Your Inner Art Critic
The Inkposter is the “world’s first color ePaper art poster” (basically, a big, color Kindle for your wall).
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Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Someone May Soon Pay $1.5 Million to Tape a Banana to a Wall
The artwork that debuted in 2019 is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction. The purchaser won’t actually take home the item, though.
