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All art is political in the sense that all art takes place in the public arena and engages with an already existing …
Paradise is one of Nobuyoshi Araki’s most important themes. After his wife death, he produced “A’s Paradise” (1998), in which he photographed …
Sara VanDerBeek first became known in the mid ‘00s for photographs featuring her own makeshift sculptural configurations in which appropriated photos were …
Liz Magor represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale, she draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they …
In his body of work, Roxy Paine mirrors natural processes, drawing increasingly on the tension between organic and man-made environments, between the …
Over the past 30 years, Thomas Olbricht has put together one of the most extensive private collections in Europe. The collection encompasses …
Takashi Murakami has stated that the artist is someone who understands the borders between worlds and who makes an effort to know …
Anish Kapoor is one of a generation of British-based sculptors who became established in the International Art Scene during the ‘80s and …
Karin Schneider’s work has a stro
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Andy Warhol is often credited with coining the famous saying, “Art is anything you can get away with.” What’s not quite as well known is that he supposedly poached the quip from Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan — and yes, Warhol did, in fact, get away with it. As Pablo Picasso once said (or was it Igor Stravinsky, or perhaps William Faulkner?), “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”
If a knack for the disingenuous is vital for creating good art — and the proper credit of a classic quote seems to depend on which website you visit first — then why not do a little faking it yourself? Even if you don’t know the difference between a Vermeer and a van Gogh, you can still find a way to embrace the dilettante life with a new crop of beauty products that pay homage to iconic artists, both contemporary and otherwise, without getting too esoteric.
Ahead, a few of the best art-inspired products out right now — and some context for each of them, should anyone ask you what, exactly, your expensive candle has to do with French street art. Consider it a sort of SparkNotes for your creative side.