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Paint me like one of your pop girls: Gary Grimes on the modern love affair between fine art and pop music

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By Gary Grimes
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Elsewhere, Lorde famously worked with Brooklyn-based artist Sam McKinniss to create the artwork for her 2017 magnum opus Melodrama, in a collaboration that Sam, whose work often uses pop culture references, suggested was inevitable. He told Vogue at the time that, given he was a fan of the Kiwi songstress before meeting her, he would likely have gone on to paint her anyway, had she not approached him directly.
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Most creative work is made to a brief – so is fake art in film actually ‘fake’?

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By Gary Grimes
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This week sees the UK release of The Christophers, a new Steven Soderbergh-directed film starring Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen plays a washed up artist named Julian Sklar, whose attic holds a series of paintings of a former lover named Christopher, which could fetch millions at auction – if he would only finish them.
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Gary Grimes decodes the angsty cultural references within Romain Gavras’ Yung Lean-starring epic, Storm

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The secondary school setting has long been seen as a fertile ground for visionaries of the music video format. Perhaps it’s because schools are a natural hotbed of teenage angst, or that the teacher/student dynamic lends itself perfectly to tales of pubescent rebellion or unrequited love. The drone-like quality of hoards of students dressed in matching, or occasionally customised, uniforms certainly presents a golden opportunity for a stylist to flex their muscles.
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