Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist.
International Necronautical Society
The International Necronautical Society is a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. It replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges. At the same time the INS makes use of these structures to generate artistic projects that explore the relations between death and representation. The representation of physical death, as in obituaries and memorials, is only a starting point for the INS’s exploration of the ways that all representations inhabit a zone of conceptual death. Death is viewed by the INS as “a cipher for the outer limit of description, for the point at which the code breaks down”.
Edouard Boubat
Édouard Boubat was a French photographer.
Andrzej Wróblewski
Andrzej Wróblewski was a Polish painter who died in a tragic mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 30. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating an individualistic approach to figurative painting.
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas is a painter.
Ed van der Elsken
Even though his cameras were ever-present, van der Elsken’s photos didn’t contain the least tinge of solipsism. It didn’t explore his personal identity - he was far more concerned with using his camera for documenting the social culture around him, especially the counterculture. His lenses captured the reckless, drug-taking bohemians in postwar Paris, the gruesome slaughter of hunted elephants in Africa, the demolition of Amsterdam’s looted and destroyed Jewish Quarter, segregation in South Africa under apartheid, jazz musicians onstage, and all forms of love - gender-bending, interracial and otherwise. He’s most famous for pictures shot in grainy, high-contrast black and white.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Arguably the most psychologically compelling painting by John Singer Sargent.
Avant Garde
Avant Garde produced only 16 issues between January 1968 and July 1971. But it left its mark, influencing tastemakers within the arts world. Avant Garde is partly remembered for its radical politics and embrace of erotic content.
Alte Pinakothek
Alte Pinakothek. It is one of the oldest galleries of the world housing one of the most famous art museums for the old masters.
The Cottingley Fairies
The Cottingley Fairies are a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins living in Cottingley, near Bradford in England, depicting the two in various activities with supposed fairies. In 1917, when the first two photos were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. In 1981 both women admitted that the photos were faked using cardboard cutouts. CGI has come a long way.