Venus Superstar moves within a space where beauty and horror coalesce, entangle, shift, and dissolve into one another. The performer, part drag queen, part performance artist, part auteur” hailing from the San Francisco underground, is the type of queer creative whose work is as much passion as it is intrinsic to their very being.
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Fashion Art Toronto Returns For SS24′
Fashion Art Toronto, the city’s premiere multi-arts fashion platform, is set to dazzle the fashion world with its Spring 2024 edition of 1664 Fashion Week.
The Wonderous World of Frank Dorrey
Frank Dorrey is an artist for the digital age, whose surrealist pieces, which blend digital collage and illustrations, are created on his iPhone using the PicsArt app.
“Animal Studies” By Jenny Vong
Jenny Vong (they/them) aka @fairiesrepose on Instagram is a Toronto based painter whose work seeks to cultivate raw emotion through intense expressionism.
What is ‘Accidental Renaissance’?
What is ‘Accidental Renaissance’? Well, you’ve probably seen these pictures popping up on your feed at some point.
It’s a phenomenon in which pictures taken by civilians without a second thought, and by the chance of faith, the elements aligned to create a picture of perfect balance of light, movement, and perspective in the picture, transcending a universal commentary on humanity.
Jean-Michel Gadoua: Master of Brutality
Master of Brutality is a group exhibition of experimental objects curated by Jean-Michel Gadoua and New Studio. Inaugurated by two subsequent shows in Williamsburg and Montreal, the exhibition celebrates raw materials and spontaneous gestures as an antidote to impersonal manufacturing.
A Subculture is Born: AI Fashion
AI Fashion is slowly but surely taking over. Rapidly growing in popularity and interest, the first AI Fashion Week was held last week in NYC, and as interest in the power of AI blooms amongst the fashion community and consumers – the technology which supports it develops further, expanding creative potential and disturbing the fashion space.
Barkley L. Hendricks: Myself When I Am Real
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery has unveiled a new exhibition of never-before-seen photographs by the late American painter Barkley L. Hendricks.
Meg Cule’s Frenetic Poetry: Prose, Process, and Catharsis
Meg Cule, also known by her internet alias @desperateidiot on instagram is an artist and writer based in Montreal, Quebec. Through varying mediums of creative exploration, namely free verse poetry, visual art, tattooing, lyric composition and printmaking – Cule has explored the depths of her artistic curiosities for years, always finding writing to be her most natural manifestation of truth.
The Emancipation of the Neue Frau: Art, Fashion, and Sexual Identity In The Weimar Era
From intricate tailoring at Yohji Yamamoto, to broad silhouettes at Dries Van Noten, and bold shoulders at Saint Laurent, it is clear that elevated workwear is making its way back into our wardrobes.