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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

A quote from César Cruz, an advocate for gang violence prevention, Dean of Secondary Schools Program at Harvard University. Born in Guadalajara around 1974, he moved to the United States as an undocumented immigrant at age 9.

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Zdzisław Beksiński's dystopian realms

Loving Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński’s surreal dystopian realms. Born in 1929, Beksiński was initially a vehicle designer.

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Bacon in Moscow by James Birch

In 1988, English art dealer James Birch exhibited Francis Bacon in the USSR. In this book, Birch tells this story.

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vad.jpg's bright and creepy 3D art

I love the combination of bright colours and a dark subject matter.

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Modernism as a Cold War weapon

US elites (cultural, government, and security) conspired to make American modernism a successful counterpoint to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

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Smokey surrealism by Louisa Gagliardi

I found Gagliardi’s work at 39+ in Singapore and it’s lived rent-free in my mind ever since.

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David Lee Pereira's Liminal Spaces

Some beautiful surrealist paintings from David Lee Pereira. I have a soft spot for Dali-style landscape + object/creature compositions like this.

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