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Turkey Chooses Erdogan

Since a group of senior military officers, backed by thousands of armed soldiers, came close to toppling him on the night of July 15, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought comfort in the bosom of his angry, exhilarated people. The country has spent the past three weeks in a state of collective hyperventilation. The combination of nationalism and religiosity is like nothing I have seen in twenty years of following Turkish politics.

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Facing the World; Inspiring Impressionism here's looking at me

Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
From Rembrandt to Munch to Ai Weiwei on Instagram, the self-portrait proves irresistible. And Daubigny, anyone?

There is a wry and unexpectedly beautiful photograph by Helen Chadwick that shows her hands gently cradling a human brain. It is titled Self-Portrait. This cannot be the artist's own brain, of course, this disembodied object with its intricate, walnut-like folds; but are we our brains in any case? Here she is, head in hands, asking the old questions who, or what, or where exactly am I? It is Chadwick's droll retort to the impossibility of ever summing oneself up in a self-portrait.

But still artists keep on doing it, keep trying to find a way to make their inner and outer selves coincide in some form or image. They have been doing it, quite possibly, since those earliest artists left the shape of their hands on the cave walls at Lascaux. Over time there must have been billions of self-portraits, given that even the least of us have tried it, and what connects them all is this aim for the truth, for getting something across of one's self.

Even his stepmother thought Feuerbach ‘vain beyond anything I have hitherto seen'

A magnificent Rembrandt from the 1650s is illuminated, as it seems, by the light of his own mind

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Art from the gut: the scientifically inspired work of Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

Aesthetic meets gastric in the surprising and beautiful sculptures of artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, finds Kit Buchan

The highly respected Macedonian artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva will show a selection of her recent work at the Djanogly gallery in Nottingham later this month, demonstrating her unusual and ambitious installations in a grand, three-part exhibition. Hadzi-Vasileva specialises in mixed-media “interventions” in public buildings and spaces and the new exhibition, Making Beauty, incorporates two earlier large-scale works along with a third gallery containing her newer sculptures. Perhaps the most intriguing and unsettling aspect of the exhibition is that the majority of the work is made from artistically manipulated animal viscera, painstakingly preserved and exploited to fascinating, decorative effect.

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James Ostrer's foodie hell

The artist's nightmarish creations are made from raw meat and sugar

We often talk of chefs whose food is their art. For James Ostrer, however, his art is food. When he unveiled his latest portrait at a genteel Hong Kong art fair in March, eyeballs bulged.

The artist's rendition of Donald Trump the centrepiece of his latest exhibition plays with food to disturbing effect, with fish as flesh, a pig's snout, sheep eyes and a half-eaten jam and cream croissant as the politician's mouth.

Ostrer incorporates raw meat, fish and offal into provocative interpretations of celebrities

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liz west illuminates the visible spectrum at london's natural history museum

'our spectral vision' asks viewers to question their own experience of, and engagement with, chroma and luminosity.

The post liz west illuminates the visible spectrum at london's natural history museum appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The life artistic: Wes Anderson-inspired works in pictures

On Halloween 2010, Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco put on a fancy dress opening night for a popup exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. “We opened the doors and found hundreds of fans wrapped around the block clamouring to get in,” says gallery owner Ken Harman, “We knew we were on to something special.” Since then, the gallery has put on yearly exhibitions of Wes Anderson-themed paintings, prints and sculptures. “There are so many elements of Anderson's films that artists can pull inspiration from: the compositions of individual scenes, the colour palette, costume design, soundtrack, general aesthetic... the list goes on.” A selection of art from these shows has been compiled in The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, out on 9 August (Abrams £18.99).

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The life artistic: Wes Anderson-inspired works in pictures

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New Lucille Ball statue replaces 'Scary Lucy' in actor's hometown

Facebook campaign led to downfall of earlier, unflattering statue in Celoron, New York, whose sculptor says he has received death threats

A new statue of Lucille Ball was unveiled in the late actor's hometown on Saturday which would have been her 105th birthday, replacing one that was so disliked it came to be known as “Scary Lucy”.

Hundreds of fans chanting “Lucy! Lucy!” gathered in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in the western New York village of Celoron to watch as the tarp was removed from the statue made by sculptor Carolyn Palmer.

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Blackheath Common Sunset HDR

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French grande for THE OLYMPICS IN MEXICO (Alberto Isaac, Mexico,...

French grande for THE OLYMPICS IN MEXICO (Alberto Isaac, Mexico, 1969)

Designer: Georges Kerfyser

Poster source: Posteritati

Included in Posteritati's Summer Sale - 15% off documentary posters with promo code DOC15 through August 11.

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US one sheet for TICKLED (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve, New...

US one sheet for TICKLED (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve, New Zealand, 2016)

Designer: Gravillis Inc.

Poster source: IMPAwards

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r0B0t: Nasa's secret art studio: how to make rocket science beautiful

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which takes on Nasa's most ambitious missions, runs a studio where a mix of design and engineering creates stunning results

If you've marveled at space news recently, there's a good chance it's thanks to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This arm of Nasa is responsible for the most ambitious of missions, like sending robots to Mars and, most recently, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter.

But the JPL has another under-the-radar mission: uniting two uncommon bedfellows design and science in new and meaningful ways.

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