Ukranian architect Oleg Shuplyak designs buildings for a living, but MrOlik, his pseudonym, creates paintings that are a world of their own. With an architect’s eye for detail and structure, Shuplyak’s paintings are also highly inventive optical illusions that double as portraits of other artists and historical figures. His primary technique, which he’s been refining…

Alice Cooper meets Sweet in the nightmarish glam rock of ‘70s Dutch band, Lemming   Anyone who’s a fan of junkshop glam is going to want the fantastic new CD boxed set, All the Young Droogs: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks. The collection contains a whopping 60 tracks of obscure ‘70s glam rock from all over…

Alexey Andreev (b. 1972) is a Russian artist, lives and works in Saint-Petersburg, and he is one of my favorite illustrators ever. Just sit back, relax and enjoy. From the artist’s statement: “… the nagual Elias went to his dreaming journeys the way a wild animal prowls for food… visited, let’s say, the junkyard of…

Es dauert ein paar Jahre, von einem Jahrhundert ins nächste zu wechseln. So feiern wir nun das rund hundertjährige Jubiläum dieser besonderen Epoche, die wir «fin de siècle» nennen – und wir sollten es horizontal feiern wie es im Sanatorium gemacht wurde. Fin de siècle ist unter anderem der Glaube an den sozialen Verfall, der Ende des…

Cristian Chierici is an Architect, graduating from the Politecnico of Milan in 2005. He worked in Milan as a 3d visualiser and in 2009 founded his own visualization office CC79. In 2015 he moved to Paris to join LUXIGON and start UFO Visual investigating new approaches to architectural visualisation, computational media and photography. Currently, he…

Maybe they were deluded by their own sense of grandeur or misguided by overly supportive parents, but one thing is for certain these are easily 75 of the worst album covers from all over the world.

Ericka Blount Danois | Longreads | January 2019 | 23 minutes (4,688 words) Driving through blinding rain from Baltimore to Philadelphia recently to see the documentary If You Don’t Know Me By Now, about the life of R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, I was reminded how one of my first encounters with Teddy was as a life-size cardboard…

Mittelalterliche Philosophen argumentierten sowohl mit Aristoteles oder Platon als auch mit den Kirchenvätern. Damit alles unter den Hut der allmächtigen Religion passte, bog man an der Beweisführung zuweilen ganz hübsch und lustig herum. von Michael Helming Das Dienstpersonal erledigt die niederen Arbeiten, dafür wird es bezahlt. So war es schon immer und im Mittelalter repräsentierten…

Sometimes you click some art on the internet and just want to get lost in it. That’s certainly the case with the work of Ben Nicholas. Nicholas is a senior concept artist at Ubisoft, so he’s well-embedded in the video game world. In his free time, though, he goes beyond that, exploring futuristic vistas through…