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Marcopoulos – who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol – transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge

young Detroit artist Hernan Bas's works simultaneously reference the romantic

dog-fearing future in Cannes-award winner White God

His practice references historical drawing forms and grand architectural settings

Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books imperceptible gradientsPhotographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high rise tenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Billinghams overweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles, housing ten cats and three dogs. These are Billinghams subjects. His images are raw,