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Chaka Khan most famously sang, “I am every woman” and no artist embodies this quite as brilliantly as Cindy Sherman. She has been remaking herself in the image of others…

Since its inception in the late 60s, graffiti has been the most public of public arts, the ultimate statement of self, a mark of existence that enlivens the streets.…

The Muses are the nine companions of Apollo, each embodying a distinctive art, each the idea made flesh, the sublimation of desire into the creation of beauty. The muse inspires…

The urban landscape is more than buildings and roads; it is a series of signs, murals, and iconography that helps to define the place. Signs provide direction, giving us a…

Janette Beckman spent the summer of 1983 in Los Angeles, staying in the home of a good friend who was then managing the pop group, The Go-Gos. While in town,…

A portrait of the artist is always their subject. Their ideas find form in their iconography as identity becomes manifest in the content presented and the mode of representation itself.…

“Advertising is, after all, artificial truth,” writes Steven Heller in the introduction to Advertising From the Mad Men Era: The Sixties (Taschen). This is the second in a two-volume slipcased…

Today Is A Good Day to Die is the title of the book that sits in the center of Kent Rogowski’s life size photograph of a series of self-help books…