quote [ It?s the same size as the church painting ? 55 by 45 centimeters ? and is believed to be the same in all other aspects as well. Since Martinez is known to have spent a mere two hours painting the one in Borja, perhaps he copied from his own canvas. ]

quote [ Jank has a wide and foggy etymology, but I've mostly encountered it in gaming culture. It can just mean shitty or busted, but my favorite connotation is "fun but suboptimal." Like picking a "bad" character in a fighting game because you love their look. Suffering for the aesthetic, for the memes. It's like being me. ]

quote [ ?Instagram?s slow evolution into a glorified mall isn?t only an attempt to dethrone TikTok and Youtube?s massive base, but also Amazon?s,? Gizmodo notes. ]

quote [ They go large in the States ? even when it comes to the small stuff. And perhaps nowhere is that more true than with a particularly kitsch specimen of American vernacular architecture, the miniature golf course. ]

quote [ I am starting to fear he might never finish and release Duke Smoochem?not for our sake, for his. Will England stop being daft for long enough for him to catch up and call it finished? Seems unlikely. Maybe he should receive a lifelong Arts Council grant, become an official chronicler. ]

quote [ Crocotile 3D is a tile-based modeling editor. You can import tilesets and select tiles from the image to place into the 3d scene to construct environments, objects, characters or anything else you can imagine. ]

quote [ When Francoise Gilot split from Picasso, he prevented galleries from buying her work. Camille Claudel?s lover, Augustin Rodin, signed a number of her sculptures as his own, and after their romance ended badly, it?s rumored he told the Ministry of Fine Arts to stop commissioning her. ]

quote [ Described by Kasimir Malevich as the ?first step of pure creation in art?, his Black Square of 1915 has been cast as a total break from all that came before it. Yet searching across more than five hundred years of images related to mourning, humour, politics, and philosophy, Andrew Spira uncovers a slew of unlikely foreshadows to Malevich's radical abstraction. ]

quote [ Beijing Silvermine is an archive of over a million negatives salvaged over the last seven years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing. It has been assembled by the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin. ]

quote [ Between 1900 and 1912, 141 of Guimard's entrances were installed all over Paris. Today, 86 remain?though they're often confused with other aesthetically similar types of signage. ]