Kate Gill

Yung Jake: The Rapper Behind Those Celebrity Emoji Portraits

Arts, Culture & Media

A mostly unknown rapper constructs elaborate celebrity portraits out of emojis. 

Mesmerizing Films of Commuters Frozen in Time

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How to Quit Smoking, One Illustration at a Time

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Grateful Dead Fans Flood USPS with Mail Art

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Music Videos from the 90s are So Totally Lost on Millenials

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High-Art Skateboards for a Good Cause

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Subversive artist Paul McCarthy tries his hand at a new medium: the skateboard. Nice boards if you can get them, but it’s all to benefit a skate park and school in South Africa.

The Golden Age of Rap Captured on Film

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A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York chronicles hip-hop’s heyday with photos of figures like LL Cool J and Queen Latifah before they were famous.

Middle East’s First Female Photo Collective Focuses on Gender

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The first all-women’s Middle Eastern art collective has a touring photography exhibit that puts gender in the foreground. 

#Bookface Brings Book Cover Art into the Real World

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Using the tag #bookface, librarians and readers stage trick photos that extend book covers beyond their borders.

The New York Public Library's Instagram featured New Jersey's Cherry Hill Public Library photo of Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore.

#Bookface brings book cover art into the real world

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There’s a library-centric hashtag that is catching on in the wider book-loving world: #bookface, in which bibliophiles take photos of themselves completing the cover art of various books.