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New work by Kelly Thompson. Opening reception this Friday at ecce gallery.

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Selected works by Aaron Horkey graphic designer and poster artist from Windom, Minnesota. His posters are the product of multiple hand-drawn layers, each meticulously detailed with micron pens – all scanned, composited, and screenprinted to create a finished product.

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So many doll parts.

We are what we eat- are we also what we play with? Australian artist Freya Jobbins asks questions about modern consumerism with her strange portraits made of doll parts. Her surrealist imagination has come up with busts of pop culture icons like Batman, Bart Simpson, and self portaits made of discarded Barbie legs. Jobbins’ abstract way of seeing others is highly influenced by Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He famously painted images of gods and Roman emperors made up of objects like vegetables, fruits, and flowers. While very amusing, there’s an incredible amount of detail and thought that goes into Jobbins’ pieces. She shares, “The irony of my plastic works is that I take a material that was created to be touched, and I make it untouchable as an artwork.”

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If you’ve ever wanted to do street photography but couldn’t be moved to leave the house, photographer Matteo Mezzadri may have a solution.

The Sony World Photography Award winner constructed an entire model city in the comfort of his studio.

Photographer Builds an Entire City in His Studio

via Pro Photo Daily

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For our latest episode of The ARTSpulse Show, Dayna talked to Plains Art Museum curator (and TAP board member) Becky Dunham. Becky discussed the new exhibition, "Bakken Boom: Artists Respond to the North Dakota Oil Rush," opening Thursday evening at the Museum and shared some thoughts on her first few months as a transplant from Houston, Tex.

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The Best Midnight Movie Candidates of the 21st Century

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“Boy With Apple" - The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Dayna with our new #supportlocalart sign out at the airport!

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Installations by Esther Stocker

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See more Esther Stocker posts here.

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Claire Fontaine at Galerie Neu

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What if instead of only showing up online, your Instagram photos of sunsets, street art, photogenic cityscapes, or alluring strangers on subway platforms were posted back into New York City’s public spaces? That’s precisely what Get Up NY, a participatory street art campaign that’s started cropping up all over Manhattan, aims to do.

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Lightpainting In The Polish Tatra Mountains

6 days ago by Q’bot Q’botcenko

I’m a lightpainter living in the south of Poland. I’m used to shoot at night with some electrical sources of light and pyrotechnic materials like sparklers, steel wool, fountains or roman candles.

I’m humbly presenting you my last set of photographs taken in the Tatra Mountains. The whole project lasted three months from October 2014 to January 2015. During this time, I visited the Tatra National Park several times to achieve the best results. I was completely dependent on weather conditions and moon phases – the sky has to be almost cloudless for you to see the stars and Milky Way.

In the pictures below I’m showing places in the Polish Tatra Mountains often visited by tourists like Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich, Giewont or Morskie Oko. The only difference is, I shoot there at night with a little help of my self-made lamps.

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Yung Jake Is Making Emoji Portraits of Celebrities

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The Man who Agreed

Print design project by Florence Meunier is a booklet with the terms and conditions of Apple’s iCloud service, with an additional poetic narrative formed from it:

Project to re-design and interpret the Apple ICloud EULA (End User License Agreement), perhaps one of the most overlooked and ambiguous agreement we make. By clicking “I Agree”, we accept rather odd conditions that we are not aware of because the very design of it is not intended to be read. The aim was to design a more “user-friendly” document in a print format, that would make the user want to read the text. I decided to influence the user into reading the license. I created a second narration inside the actual EULA text, as an existing made up story about a man who agreed too quickly. The aim is to slightly guilt the user into reading, or simply amuse and therefore interest them.

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Absolutely gorgeous.

‘Portrait of a Letterpress Printer’, A Touching Short Documentary About the Lost Art of Letterpress Printing

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Arts and culture matters much more to the economy than previously known, according to anew report issued by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In 2012, creative industries generated $698.7 billion in added value, making up 3.8% of the US national GDP (more than the industries of construction, transportation, travel, tourism, or agriculture). The total output for that year was $1.1 trillion.

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Various new works by Erica Frank. She'll debut a new grouping of work in her very first solo show at ecce gallery this Friday. Details here.