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4 days agoComic strips look to the future at the Cartoon Museum in London
Artists, being curious people, like to think about the future. Sometimes, as with the legendary 1956 This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, they can build a whole movement out of it. Mid 20th-century Pop art types were at it more than most, recycling mass-production images into collages that proclaimed the streamlined, plastic future that many thought was hurtling towards them. It might be instructive therefore to pop along to The Future Was Then at the Cartoon Museum,
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