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Author: Paul Gallagher

The Artist as Frankenstein ‘piecing together the sublime’: The paintings of Carrie Ann Baade

Carrie Ann Baade paints pictures that link “the power of historical masterworks with [her] own experience as a contemporary artist.” Her work is fragmentary using…

Paul Gallagher
Mar 28, 2018

Big in Japan: Cheesy vintage ads for arcade and video games from the 1980s

That moment in Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner hears a voice saying “If you build it, he will come” was really bad financial advice.…

Paul Gallagher
Mar 20, 2018

(S)explicit collages subvert social media censorship of the right to bare flesh

America’s weird. Use a military grade weapon to slaughter a classroom of school kids and there won’t be no handgun ban. Post a nipple on…

Paul Gallagher
Mar 15, 2018

Exquisite pages from the vintage design bible ‘The Inland Printer’

The Inland Printer was a trade magazine that showcased the best printing techniques and technology between 1883 until 2011. It has been described as a…

Paul Gallagher
Mar 14, 2018

That time Divine auditioned for ‘Blade Runner,’ while Grace Jones turned it down

In some parallel universe, Oliver Reed replaced Sean Connery as James Bond for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Frank Sinatra was Dirty Harry, John Travolta…

Paul Gallagher
Mar 13, 2018

Medicine Women: Photographs of the pioneering students at the world’s first medical school for women

Though many women worked as nurses in hospitals and within the medical profession, it was deemed “inappropriate” for a woman to become a doctor. This…

Paul Gallagher
Feb 26, 2018

A lonely planet full of isolated unhappy souls: One man’s potent takedown of ‘antisocial’ media

When Facebook switched on just over a decade ago, a friend described the shiny, newly minted social media platform as being like a great big…

Paul Gallagher
Feb 20, 2018

I was a teenage Goth, Punk, Hesher, Hip-Hop, Raver: Photographs of fashionable youth from the 1980s

The 1980s encapsulated in one photo. If you remember the eighties, you were probably there. Big hair, bad music, and terrible fashion. Or was it…

Paul Gallagher
Feb 15, 2018

Alice Cooper was in a long forgotten rock opera with members of The Who, Roxy Music & Moody Blues

Around 1974, Alice Cooper fully morphed from a group’s name to that of a solo artist. While Cooper’s fellow bandmates moved on to various solo…

Paul Gallagher
Feb 12, 2018

The Victorian woman who drew pictures of ghosts

Georgiana Houghton (1862). Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) claimed her artistic talent came from the dead. Houghton was a spiritualist, a medium and (apparently) a self-taught artist…

Paul Gallagher
Feb 6, 2018

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