Art + Design x Life
10 Fabric iPhone Cases for Decorative Art Nerds
10 cases shaped by fabric that once protected bodies, announced style & marked alliances. Cotton, wool, silk, flax—carrying fields & feasts, caravans & dowries. Evolving into the glow of a modern shrine. Each a scroll of ancestral labor and aesthetic ritual.
10 Tiger iPhone Cases for Art Nerds
Tigers were one of the first abstract artists. Their bodies carry glyphs that defy mimicry: asymmetrical, high-contrast, always in motion. Before pattern had theory, tigers wore it. And each case transmits a different dialect of tiger code—visual, mythic, material.
10 Bird iPhone Cases Rewriting Art in the Sky
These 10 bird art iPhone cases function as surreal cartography: tracing lines from vanished species to imperial silks, woodblock prophecy to surrealist equation. Each case a species of reverie — 10 chances to molt the visible and enter the mythic.
Mad Muse: A Cultural History of the Tortured Artist
From Plato’s ecstatic seizure to Kusama’s self-curated hallucinations, the link between madness and brilliance has never belonged to biology or metaphor alone. It belongs to society’s need to pathologize prophecy, sanctify breakdown, or canonize pain.
Dracula's Legacy of Blood, Lust and Queer Immortality
Tsarouchis’s Greek Pantheon: Gay Eros & Zeibekiko Icons
Bob Mizer Uncaged: Straps, Shadows & Subversion
In postwar Los Angeles, behind a hedge-lined bungalow on West 11th Street, Bob Mizer assembled a visual counterculture from scraps of chiffon, glycerin, and outlaw muscle. His mother sewed the briefs. He choreographed the rest.
Eugene Séguy’s Diptera: Entomology as Graphic Poetry
Séguy’s illustrations, governed by taxonomic fidelity and the formal grace of Art Nouveau, are decorative declarations. Reminding us that even the humble fly contains a symmetry as deliberate as any architectural frieze, and just as enduring.
Cartographer’s Gaze: Émile Prisse d’Avennes Canvas of Islamic Art
Stieglitz — from Manhattan to Lake George & the Sky
Vetti, Flesh & Queer Rebellion: Lionel Wendt’s Erotic Ceylon
Lionel Wendt conjured a Ceylon ungoverned by imperial cartography. Where colonial rule had criminalized queer intimacy and privatized the commons, Wendt’s gelatin silver prints offered a counter-archive: lush, erotic, and defiantly abundant.
Henry Scott Tuke and the Queer Erotics of Edwardian Sunlight
There are afternoons that behave like secrets. Not whispered—just unsaid. Henry Scott Tuke knew this. He painted them. Salt-damp bodies along the Cornish coast, young men folded into each other’s shadow and gleam. Not staged. Not coy. Just... held.