Dafuq? Athenaeum by Shawn Huckins

Athenaeum series by artist Shawn Huckins explores 18th and 19th century American painting and photography in context of 21st century lexicons - Facebook status updates, tweets, texting acronyms - that permeate today’s popular culture. The process is a methodical replication of the original work, each painted by hand followed by the superimposition of large white letters, also painted, of social media jargon

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Shawn Huckins studio. Photo © Shawn Huckins.

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George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry

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Mrs James Warren: Blah Blah Blah

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Shawn Huckins, Athenaeum, exhibition view. Photo courtesy Foster/White Gallery and the artist.

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Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever

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Mrs John Biddle: Delete Me

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Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again

Meet Photographer Mark Aghatise on ELLO

Mark Aghatise (@markaghatise) is a New York-based photographer and graphic designer who does a bit of everything. His clients include Nylon Magazine, Apple, VSCO, Ello, Cakeboy Magazine, and OKAY Africa.

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Interviewer Mark Gelband (@markgelband) is Ello’s Chief Marketing Officer, an expert in container home construction, a long-time writer, and a local everywhere he goes.

Enter to win a framed copy of Mark's print "Untitled".

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Eutow by Marpi

The resident of Digital Decade 5 - interactive artist MARPI shares his latest project - a Virtual Reality collaboration with Archan Nair, a series of 3D virtual worlds with music by An on Bast. 

Brittabug Photography

Michigan-based artist and portrait photographer Britta explores her inner world within each shot and reveals untouchable sexuality as a state of art neither self promotion.

Aves: Birds Illustrations by Alexis Marcou

Aves is a series of birds designed by Alexis Marcou with Copic markers and pencil. Markers tend to give flat and bold strokes when working with them so Alexis wanted to give these illustrations a painted look with depth.

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Solid Light Films by Anthony Mccall

New York-based, British artist Anthony McCall practices in the fields of film, installation, sculpture and drawing.

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Anthony McCall. "Long Film for Four Projectors" (1974). Installation view (2003). Photograph: Hank Graber.

Light Show at Hayward Gallery, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 27/1/2013.

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Anthony McCall. “You and I Horizontal” (2006). Installation view at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006). Solid light installation. 50-minute cycle in six parts. Computer, computer script, video projector, haze machine. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Blaise Adilon. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

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Anthony McCall. "Between You and I" (2006). Installation view at Peer/The Round Chapel, London, 2006. Vertical solid light installation. 30-minute cycle in two parts. Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Anthony McCall. “Face to Face” (2013). Installation view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2013. Photograph by Jason Wyche.

Anthony Samaniego on ELLO

DCN Partners - ELLO Creative Network presents

Anthony Samaniego is a visual artist residing in Los Angeles, California.

Ben Wiseman Illustrations

Revising the works of Ben Wiseman (previously) who illustrates for Wired, Le Monde or The New Yorker in his own minimal "cut-out" style

After Fabergé by artist Jonathan Monaghan

After Fabergé, is a personal project and ongoing exhibition of five digital prints created by artist Jonathan Monaghan, to run a half year at The Walters opening in November

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After Fabergé is a series of five prints which transform an iconic symbol of status and wealth into uncanny objects composed of modern furniture, computer parts, and historic architecture. Set on stark white backgrounds and rendered with perfect glossy surfaces, the imagined forms appear almost like a commercial product with an eerily ambiguous function. The eggs are meticulously crafted in virtual space and are presented as highly-detailed, large photographic prints

Wade Jeffree on ELLO

DCN partner Ello Creative Network presents

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Wade Jeffree is a New York-based Designer and Art Director whose practice is based upon creating long-standing collaborative partnerships built on honesty and purpose within the fields of art, culture, and commerce. He believes in a life where work and play are forever intertwined. As of 2016, he runs a studio with his wife Leta Sobierajski from Brooklyn, New York.

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“Wade and I had the pleasure of spending 3 days in San Francisco on Adobe Live Stream to create a 3 part photographic poster series following the theme of “Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil.””

— Leta Sobierajski

Social Weapon by Tom Galle

NYC-based artist Tom Galle has reworked the idea of corporate logos in a way that makes them not only daring, but kinda deadly. 

Water Portraits By Reisha Perlmutter

Artist Reisha Perlmutter lives and works in New York, creating oil paintings informed by the way we “relate to our bodies on an uninhibited, biological level.” Her subjects are depicted in both close-up and full body compositions, their bodies caught amongst light flares and reflections of the sun shining through the surface. The Florida-born artist presents quiet, solitary moments in the pool, her subjects appearing at peace with their surroundings and themselves..

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This post was shamefully censored few times by Facebook and Instagram leaving our accounts compromised and blocked for weeks then a month and completely destroying any logic and a will to support that channels.

Art censorship in action from Facebook Nipple Army of cheap labour moderators based in Manila, Philippines and India. Watch related movies “The Cleaners” and “The Moderators” about actions against Art and Photography undertaken by freaking policies of the largest online platforms.

I Left My Heart in Tokyo by Audun Grimstad

Phenomenally detailed illustration work from artist Audun Grimstad inspired by Manga classics in a piece called “I left my heart in Tokyo.”

A New York Split Second by Christian Stoll

Christian Stoll shares his amazing photographic concept with a great production. In his short multi-exposition series he caught a vibrant atmosphere of New York

Time for Sushi by David Lewandowski

LA-based filmmaker David Lewandowski has released Time for Sushi, a five-minute short “inspired by an obsessive passion for nonsense”. The film is part of an ongoing series of David’s, in which he uses floppy, nude, CGI bodies to galavant around different cities.

Bicycle Drawings by Nickalas Blade

Nickalas Blades is a self taught photorealistic oil painter who resides and paints in Reno, NV. He is definitely addicted to bikes (just like us) and the aesthetics of classic Italian frames.

Casey Weldon

Casey Weldon (previously) crafts surreal, sometimes absurd paintings that play with the everyday and the otherworldly alike. The artist, based in Washington, D.C., is featured in a new show at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. “Sentimental Deprivation” continues the thread of that duality in the artist’s work. The show starts June 3 and runs through June 24

The One Backpack

Our friends from ONE are releasing their awesome shell-backpack to public on Kickstarter

The One Backpack

Customisable as a hell

The ONE Backpack gives its owner an opportunity to express themselves in their own special and creative way according to everyday changing style, by customising it through the replaceable outer Shell. The One Backpack look can be easily changed  just by zipping the Shell with different colours and textures to the backpack.      

Today, The One Backpack is represented in one of the 10 Best Fashion Museums in the World - the "Tassenmuseum Hendrikje" in Amsterdam.

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Few words about the product features: The ONE Backpack is fully handcrafted with the finest Italian black leather. Inside there is a safety laptop and iPhone pockets. It is designed with the anti-theft system - the main zipper of backpack is located on inner side, that adjoins to back. The One Shell is made of high quality black glossy plastic, which perfectly reflects its futuristic fashionable polygonal form. The Shell is also water resistant and keeps your stuff in safety in any kind of activity

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Crystal Toys by Daniel Arsham

This week, Daniel Arsham (previously) is presenting his solo show Crystal Toys at Galerie Perrotin in Seoul. Crystal Toys will be a continuation of his ongoing Fictional Archeology series, a collection of work inspired by daily objects shown through the prism of destruction and the use of precious materials.

Photo credit // Guillaume Ziccarelli

Photographer Johnmin Lee/HYPEBEAST KR