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Posted 11/18/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Artist Jeff Sonhouse Saves You the Cost of LSD

Sonhouse paints prominent and not so prominent African-Americans into colorful, distorted, geometrical compositions that render the subject barely recognizable.

Posted 11/17/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Artist Bogdan Rata Injured in Horrific Teleportation Accident

Rata's foot-slash-hand (fand? hoot?) looks like something out of the trailer for J.J. Abram's 'Star Trek.'

Posted 11/14/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Photographer Cindy Sherman Sports Latest Disguise

Sherman continues to impress us.

Posted 11/13/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Photographer Renate Aller Could’ve Sworn Those Ice Caps Were There a Minute Ago

Aller's show is a series of neat photographs of different versions of the same seascape.

Posted 11/12/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the Library

Smith's polished photographs pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool.

Posted 11/11/08 in Vulture

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Artist Casey Ruble Will Blow Your Little Mind

Ruble's gouache works look like hallucinogenic versions of those scratch-n-sniff children's books.

Posted 11/10/08 in Vulture

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Artist Luigi Benedicenti Orders a Suggestive Dessert

Benedicenti's paintings are of delicious treats like cream-filled profiteroles, pears dripping in caramel, and the sunniest of sunny-side up breakfast eggs.

Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture

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Artist Tessa Farmer Kills Tinkerbell

Tessa Farmer's fairies are made of dead insects and live on twisted plant roots and animal carcasses.

Posted 11/06/08 in Vulture

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Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida

Michael Buhler-Rose seems to have stumbled upon an outpost of Bollywood extras waiting for their big moment.

Posted 11/05/08 in Vulture

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Artist Jonathan Horowitz Is Just As Excited As You Are

Horowitz has cobbled together a very appropriate wall decoration for Obama’s new office.

Posted 11/04/08 in Vulture

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Artist Jonathan Horowitz Does Some Last-Minute Electioneering

For those still undecided, Jonathan Horowitz has some voting advice.

Posted 11/03/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Catherine Opie Is Saving Up for That Zoom Lens

Opie is best known as a provocateur, but she also has a talent for subtlety.

Posted 10/31/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Artist Zhang Peng Takes a Bloodbath

Don't you sort of wish you could be her for Halloween?

Posted 10/30/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Beck Slays World’s Biggest Clown; Photographer Autumn De Wilde Is There

When Beck holds the weight of the world in his hands, it looks like this: glowing, red, and in the shape of an egg.

Posted 10/29/08 in Vulture

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Artist Mary Jo Vath Is Saving That One for Later

This darling, somewhat mournful scene is like a mini-ballet.

Posted 10/28/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Photographer Lise Sarfati Makes Already-Awkward Bath Slightly More Awkward

Lise Sarfati mingles high art with documentary.

Posted 10/24/08 in Vulture

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Artist Daniel McDonald Does the Monster Mash

Daniel McDonald's latest figurine-studded dioramas reenact the struggle for autonomy among the creative classes.

Posted 10/23/08 in Vulture

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Artist Olaf Breuning Submits the Worst-Ever ‘Project Runway’ Application

As glamour shots go, this one is overflowing with such playful grotesquerie that the only response is a gagging retch crossed with a laugh.

Posted 10/22/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Artist Mary Heilmann Paints Little Boxes

Mary Heilmann cuts through the genre's occasional academicism with lush colors and a woozily applied impasto that suggest she's having a great, groovy time.

Posted 10/21/08 in Vulture

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Artist Swoon Has Seen the Needle and the Damage Done

Not sure what this enchanting woman is sewing — has her blouse unraveled, or is she literally sewing herself?