Garage rocker Ty Segall has cannily created a Gustav Klimt pastiche with some crochet blankets and blonde hair for the cover of his new album Sleeper. It’s a funny, lo-fi riposte to the Austrian’s super-luxe erotic art.Photograph: PRThe Japanese artist’s exquisite 1954 silkscreened soap ad goes under the hammer at Christie’s this month, where it’s currently on show. The flat planes of luscious colour pre-empt Alex Katz’s billboard-smooth portraits of upmarket New York, or Gary Hume’s depthless vision of semi-abstract pop culture fragments.Photograph: PR
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