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| | Wei Dong was born in 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, China in 1991 and moved to the United States the same year. A personal obsession with the female body is one of Wei Dong's many complex interests. Growing up in China under the watchful eye of Mao's red guard, sexual fantasies and freedoms were forcibly repressed. Socialist realism was the standard fair in the art academies of the time, and as a result, any hint of sexual or erotic expression was taboo. Upon entering the United States in 1991, Wei Dong's preoccupation with the root of erotic desires as a young adult were given free reign over his canvases, resulting in grandiose explorations of the flesh. In the art...
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| | Althea McNish The images in issue are taken from the Whitworth's major retrospective of Althea McNish (1924-2020), which is currently on tour from William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. McNish was the first Caribebean designer to achieve international recognition and one of the most influential and innovative textile designers in the UK. Drawing on extensive and continuing [...]
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| | John White Alexander moved to New York at the age of eighteen and began working as an office boy at Harper's Weekly, where he was promoted to illustrator in 1875.
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| The UN's 'crow-fly' distance approximation obscures socio-economic inequities - accounting for urban topography leads to different results.