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Marketing the Mona Lisa, Portrait and Product

Marketing the Mona Lisa, Portrait and Product

Considering the hype surrounding Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic portrait painting in our media-driven consumer society…
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
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The Mescaline Drawings of Henri Michaux

The Mescaline Drawings of Henri Michaux

Using art to map the mind-body interface at what was the cutting-edge of brain-science research…
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Remy Dean
Shaping Successful Stories

Shaping Successful Stories

structural media theorist Gustav Freytag knew what shape a narrative must be to please us and it still seems true…
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Remy Dean
Pollice Verso: 150 Years of Deception

Pollice Verso: 150 Years of Deception

How a painter’s misunderstanding of historical reality created a popular and persistent myth
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty

Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty

a visionary sculptor of the human form in extremis
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Kim Vertue
Shadowplay: Photography without a Lens

Shadowplay: Photography without a Lens

Photograms, Electrographs, Found Transparencies and the First Photographers
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Remy Dean
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Watch the Birdie

Watch the Birdie

Gazing into the Dramatic and Enlightening ‘Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump’, Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in 1768…
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Kim Vertue
Take a Bow: The Power of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Take a Bow: The Power of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Reviewing the kawaii career of an artist who continues to deliver the most eclectic and positive expressions of Pop Art
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Remy Dean
A Handful of Dust: The Explosive Quiet of Cornelia Parker

A Handful of Dust: The Explosive Quiet of Cornelia Parker

Considering the poetic practice of artist Cornelia Parker — listening for whispers of the past woven into the threads of British history…
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Kim Vertue
A la Mode for the European Road

A la Mode for the European Road

The classic Citroën 2CV fused French elegance with functional engineering, providing practical transport on the road to post-war recovery…
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Remy Dean
What the Future Sounds Like: the J-Pop-Art of Hatsune Miku & Kizuna Ai

What the Future Sounds Like: the J-Pop-Art of Hatsune Miku & Kizuna Ai

Creative Communities, Cyber Celebrities, and Synthespian Stardom in the Entertainment Worlds of VR, XR, and AI
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Remy Dean
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