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Visual culture in interviews, reviews and opinion
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
In shows at Bucharest’s SUPRAINFINIT Gallery and an ongoing series of domestic interventions, Romanian collective Apparatus 22 offer a more intimate approach to the vexed question of art and artificial intelligence, finds Andra Amber Nikolayi
An enigmatic East German artist used a typewriter and stamps to quietly disrupt the boundaries of poetry and graphic design. Geoff Cowart travelled to Potsdam to examine her creative disobedience and find out why she quit
Featuring more than a hundred artists from twenty-one different countries, Tom Buchanan’s *Out of the Box* celebrates the significance of objects and the lost art of collecting. Here, the author talks us through eight of its subjects, including Richard Johnson, Nancy Fouts, and Mohamed Hafez