It’s BBC Four’s The Art of Gothic: Britain’s Midnight Hour (2014)! “Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain’s medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.” Watch here.
“The company released its first Lego Art sets in August 2020, with four kits designed to be hung on the wall. Three of them featured artworks from pop culture—Lego pictures of Darth Vader, Iron Man, and the Beatles—but the fourth was a legitimate piece of art history, recreating Andy Warhol’s famed Marilyn Monroe silkscreen in four different colorways. […]
The National Galleries has a pair of videos on Queer art. The first is “The Secret Languages of Queer Art,” which talks about identification and coding in Queer art and can be watched here. And “The Hidden Histories of Queer Art,” which discusses Queer art and the suppression […]
Hey, it’s some things Carol Borden did in 2024! See them here.
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
Colossal has an intricate illustration of Kowloon Walled City before it was destroyed in 1994 drawn by Hitomi Terasawa. “For a now out-of-print book titled Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide, artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory. The massive panorama […]
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The Cultural Gutter 