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PULSE and SCOPE Fairs Slam Selfie Culture with Hello Kitties and Neon Signs
Narcissism is a hot topic at these satellite fairs.
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... If you see only one thing at PULSE, however, be sure to stop and marvel at Michael Waugh‘s astonishing micrography at Von Lintel Gallery. Each work contains thousands upon thousands of handwritten words carefully arranged to create drawings based on 19th century newspaper imagery. The gallery actually has Waugh’s copy of the dense French philosophy book that provided the copy for his largest ever work, Les Regels De L’art. Thumb through it and be amazed by the obsessive perfectionism of the 14-foot-wide work, which took 18 months to complete.
December 2, 2015