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Skye Sherwin's A Good Look

agookdook17/08: Kyary Pamyu Pamy
J-Pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu seems to be mining the work of two LA art greats and chums, Tony Oursler and the late Mike Kelley. Oursler is renowned for video projections of jabbering outsized mouths, Kelley for his stuffed toy hybrids. Photograph: PR
Pain & Gain.
As bodybuilders in Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, Mark Wahlberg and The Rock are like a flesh-and-blood version of drawings by Tom of Finland, the cult gay artist famed for cartoon fantasies of scarily pumped men. Photograph: PR
agookdook17/08: Wonder Woman / The Silver Age Of DC Comics
It’s hard not to read this 1963 Wonder Woman cover, included in Taschen’s new DC Comics compendium, as an allegory for the feminist movement. It’s giddy with Freudian imagery, such as the tower split in a threatening “V”, and plays to giantess fetishism, triggered by Attack Of The 50 Ft Woman. Photograph: © TM & © DC Comics. All rights reserved. (s13)/PR
agookdook17/08: Ty Segall's Sleeper
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: PR
agookdook17/08: Hiroshi Ohchi.
The 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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