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Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility

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1 day ago

Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility

Pia Hinz transforms utilitarian objects into fragile stained glass sculptures, exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability.
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fromAnOther
55 minutes ago

Miles Greenberg: "It's Hard to Ignore the Body's Particular Poetry"

Ancestral connections influence physical expression and artistic creation, particularly through Vodun's rituals and beliefs.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
19 hours ago
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a stone wedding, meditating chairs and dinner for rodents: objects try on new lives at baggio military hospital

Objects at Milan Design Week 2026 embody desire and agency within the historic context of the Baggio Military Hospital.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago
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lina ghotmeh floods milan's palazzo litta with pink labyrinthine landscape

Palazzo Litta is transformed into a dynamic, inhabitable landscape with Lina Ghotmeh's installation, creating a dreamlike experience during Milan Design Week 2026.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 days ago

ARY's 'DARKSTAR': A Journey Through Light and Darkness % - %

ARY's new album 'DARKSTAR' showcases her evolution as an artist, exploring deep personal themes and redefining her sound in the Nordic music scene.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

La Vuelta Al Monte Installation / Rare Studio Experimental

Vuelta al Monte installation aims to reconnect the Cosquin Rock Festival with its surrounding territory and promote conservation of native plant species.
fromDesign Milk
5 days ago

Sabah House NYC Pays Homage To Set + Setting

Sabahs are made entirely by hand from 100% leather in either Texas or Turkey—two regions with distinct yet deeply rooted relationships to the material. The result is a shoe that varies subtly from pair to pair, even within the same size.
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fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

David Armstrong's Probing Gaze

David Armstrong's retrospective at Artists Space showcases over ninety works, emphasizing portraits and desire, revealing his artistic evolution and impact.
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fromArtnet News
18 hours ago

Never-Before-Seen Calder Sculpture Emerges on the Auction Block in Paris | Artnet News

Alexander Calder's Stabile-mobile will be auctioned for €80,000 to €120,000, blending his iconic mobile and stabile styles.
Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order

Isa Genzken's art creates environments that challenge viewers, exploring themes of chaos, politics, and the complexities of human experience.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Cathalijn Wouters Challenges the Boundary Between Painting and Drawing

Cathalijn Wouters' art blends painting and drawing, reflecting modernism while maintaining clarity through her graphic design background.
#architecture
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fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

The Brick House / Studio VDGA

Brick House is a private residence in Pune designed to address urban spatial constraints and climatic challenges using traditional Indian architectural principles.
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fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

The Brick House / Studio VDGA

Brick House is a private residence in Pune designed to address urban spatial constraints and climatic challenges using traditional Indian architectural principles.
#sculpture
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 days ago

Tom Prochaska: Through the Open Door * Oregon ArtsWatch

Tom Prochaska distinguished himself in many mediums: He was a masterful printmaker, an intuitive painter, a builder of papier-mâché figures, a creator of fused glass panels, and graphite-on-paper drawings.
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3 days ago

Karyn Gabriel's ceramic sculptures ask, 'Is beauty important?' - 48 hills

"My work is a dialogue with clay, grounded in reverence for repetition and craft, at once elemental, transparent, and detailed. I'm not sure my work answers these questions but I do constantly ask myself: What value does beauty play in our chaotic lives? Is beauty important? What do objects we surround ourselves say about us?"
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fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

When Sculpture Becomes Discourse: Reflections on Mujassam Watan

The Mujassam Watan initiative redefines urban aesthetics by integrating art into the social and cultural fabric of Khobar, enhancing identity and meaning.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Harry Bertoia Gets His Moment

Harry Bertoia's long-lost sculpture resurfaces in Detroit, prompting a retrospective at Cranbrook Academy of Art for the artist's 90th anniversary.
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

What Not to Miss at the San Francisco Art Fair

"I love the range in this booth, from large-scale ceramic totems to more intimate neon paintings. I'm always impressed by the artists Freeburg represents and the clarity of her program's mission."
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

In an Unlikely Pairing, Giacometti Sculptures Head to The Met's Temple of Dendur

"At once naturalistic and highly symbolic, Egyptian art resonated with his enduring search for both monumentality and humanity," Bouvard said. "The opportunity to present his work within a setting of such profound historical and architectural significance offers a rare and compelling perspective on his oeuvre."
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fromArtnet News
4 days ago

Art Dealers Try Their Hand as Artists in This Unusual Exhibition | Artnet News

White Columns' new fundraising technique involves art dealers creating works for sale, challenging traditional norms of artist donations.
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fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Ghosts in the machine

Rachel Youn creates kinetic sculptures from secondhand machines, exploring themes of domesticity, sexuality, and human-machine relationships.
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

How Do Museums Care for Unconventional Acquisitions?

Knowles's performances, such as Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, showcased her unique approach to art through food, engaging audiences in the experience of preparation and consumption.
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fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, who found international fame in his 90s, is dead

Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught artist who died at 99, created acclaimed abstract wood sculptures using salvaged materials and hand tools, achieving recognition primarily in Pittsburgh despite his seven-decade career.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 days ago

Art Basel reveals 33 medalists for second edition of its awards

"This year's cohort spans geographies, disciplines and generations, reflecting a truly interconnected art world. The awards are designed to capture a broad cross-section of the ecosystem, grounded in the belief that meaningful progress depends on exchange across disciplines and perspectives."
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fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Copper House / Fabrication Studio

A compact garden suite in Toronto's Sunnybrook Park area, Copper House is designed to allow an aging homeowner to remain in place while creating a second dwelling where her adult children can return independently.
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5 days ago

Self-Made at the American Folk Art Museum explores a century of artists inventing themselves | amNewYork

Self-taught artists create work that is deeply personal, immediate, and reflective of lived experiences, challenging conventional narratives of artistic authorship.
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fromArchDaily
1 month ago

The Embellished, the Transient, and the Critical Installation / Alsar Atelier

During the pandemic, urban spaces transformed dramatically as animals reclaimed cities and streets became vibrant communal areas filled with greenery and public life.
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

LACMA's New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path

LACMA's new building challenges traditional museum concepts with a thematic approach, despite facing criticism over its design and budget.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
5 days ago

Artist interview: Sarah Rosalena

I see myself first and foremost as a weaver working at the intersection of craft and technology. As an Angeleno, I grew up learning how to weave in the Wixárika tradition of my matriarchal bloodline by watching my mother and my grandmother.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
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fromArtnet News
6 days ago

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring | Artnet News

Casa Kahlo offers an unprecedented look into the famed Mexican painter's family home, Casa Roja, which stands just blocks away from Casa Azul in Mexico City. Kahlo would retreat to Casa Roja when Casa Azul got crazy.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries

Women figurative realist painters can apply for The Bennett Prize, offering a $75,000 grand prize and a traveling solo exhibition.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany's Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional apertures.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Ahava Memorials: Turning ashes into art

Dan Hoffman creates ceramic memorial art incorporating human ashes using a proprietary glaze formula, offering families an artistic alternative to traditional cremation urns.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Painting With Blood: Who Does It and Who Collects It

Blood is used as a medium in contemporary art, challenging traditional boundaries of artistic practice.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
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fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

The Clever Way to Turn Your Home into a Curated Art Gallery

LG Gallery+ is a new visual curation service for LG TVs - and a brilliant way to make your home more unique and personalized. It lets you express your ever-changing creativity with a massive library of classic art, digital and 3D artwork, scenery, games, and more. With more than 4,500 options to choose from, you can turn your LG TV into a world-class art gallery, a peaceful forest, or an homage to your favorite video game - all in the same day.
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fromTime Out New York
1 month ago

Two massive 30-foot sculptures are landing in Manhattan

The sculptures are designed to contrast Manhattan's monumental architecture with imagery drawn from fairy tales, archetypal symbols and dreamlike storytelling. Their polished steel surfaces will reflect the surrounding city while their whimsical forms invite pedestrians to pause-and maybe look up from their phones for a minute.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

I Walked In On My Colleague Defiling a Precious Piece of Art. Now His Fate Is in My Hands.

An artist masturbated on a communal sculpture, apologized, promised to stop, and trusting him may be reasonable unless a recurring inappropriate sexual pattern appears.
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fromColossal
1 week ago

Abi Castillo's Ceramic Beings Contrast Delicacy With the Natural World

Abi Castillo creates emotive ceramic self-portraits that explore femininity, nature, and transformation, inviting reflection on the inner self.
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fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Smiljan Radic: Material Explorations Between Ephemerality and Permanence

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić creates buildings that blend ancient monumentality with provisional fragility, combining diverse materials in experimental ways that challenge conventional architectural categorization.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment 'I' of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism and spontaneity associated with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in his early work.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Alvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Álvaro Urbano sculpts plants from metal and paint to preserve fleeting moments of nature that would otherwise disappear within days or minutes.
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fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

The Art of What We Throw Away

Frozen household food waste can be transformed into artwork that records daily life, promotes circularity, and fosters community engagement through zero-waste events.
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fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

Melvin Edwards, sculptor who welded the African diaspora in 'Lynch Fragments,' dies at 88

Melvin Edwards, a prominent sculptor, died at 88, known for his impactful steel works reflecting African American history and resistance.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

"Old Iron" by Photographer Michael Dean Lemon

Michael Dean Lemon's photography portrays Midwest demolition derby participants with nuance, highlighting tradition, resilience, community, and complex working-class identities.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

'raw geological poetry': how SolidNature interprets stone into an architecture of emotions

SolidNature transforms natural stone from conventional building material into atmospheric, emotionally expressive design medium through craftsmanship, technology, and artistic collaboration.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien's Table

Robert Therrien's 'Under the Table' is a 10-foot-tall sculpture that captivates visitors, inviting them to experience its scale and intricacies from below. The piece exemplifies Therrien's ability to transform everyday objects into monumental art.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

sculptural steel ladder imitates the flowing geometries of brass musical instruments

SO KOIZUMI DESIGN has developed Resonique, a ladder that explores the relationship between functional structure and sculptural form. The project draws on the structural logic of ladders while referencing the flowing geometries associated with brass musical instruments. Through this combination, the object shifts from a purely utilitarian tool toward a design piece that engages both function and spatial presence.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Why I Wanted to Meet Thaddeus Mosley

Thaddeus Mosley carved wooden sculptures out of logs he salvaged from the Pennsylvania forest, transforming them into art during his spare time, driven by passion.
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fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

The Fountain Celebrates Craft, Connection, and Lime Green

To drink, to bathe, to swim, water has been integral to every society, at every point in our relatively short history here on earth. We connect, drink, and extend ourselves over water, a lifegiving force whose polarity explains much of human behavior. Fostering this sense of community is vital to our health and happiness as well.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

continuous steel rail traces shanghai showroom's sculptural interior, like a freehand drawing

The project is structured around a single continuous hanging rail that extends for nearly 100 meters, serving as both the primary display system and the organizing element of the space. In response to the constraints of the site, the design reconsiders the hanging rail as a spatial device rather than a fixed retail fixture. The rail adapts to existing walls, columns, and building services, bending, rising, and shifting in section as needed to navigate obstacles.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago
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janny baek's sculptures shape a speculative ecosystem of colorful ceramic organisms

Artist Janny Baek presents Life Forms, a ceramic sculpture exhibition opening March 20, 2026 at Joy Machine gallery in Chicago, featuring hand-built forms that appear frozen mid-transformation between recognizable and unfamiliar organic structures.
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1 month ago
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In 'Life Forms,' Janny Baek Imagines a Speculative Landscape

Janny Baek creates sculptural ceramics of speculative beings that explore transformation, change, and the strange outcomes of creative experimentation through dream logic and material exploration.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

janny baek's sculptures shape a speculative ecosystem of colorful ceramic organisms

Artist Janny Baek presents Life Forms, a ceramic sculpture exhibition opening March 20, 2026 at Joy Machine gallery in Chicago, featuring hand-built forms that appear frozen mid-transformation between recognizable and unfamiliar organic structures.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

kinetic lighting activates mechanical movement in a sculpture of steel and glass

Kinetic lighting object integrating pulleys, counterweights, glass sphere reflector, and onyx diffuser to produce adjustable directional and diffused illumination via physical interaction.
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fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

I've Never Seen Anyone Hang Art Here (It's Pure Genius)

Hanging artwork on interior metal poles instantly warms industrial spaces and creates a bold, inexpensive design statement using Command strip hooks.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Embracing Friction in the Art World

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters 'a small, stubbornly human space for friction.' Friction—the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way—is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré's current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

reclaimed corrugated fiberglass panels reform as luminous sculpture by heilig objects

Salvaged corrugated fiberglass panels from an abandoned hut are transformed into a limited-edition light sculpture, preserving fifty years of environmental patina within custom wooden frames.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Video Craft exhibition explores how video, film, and early moving image technologies share formal and technical properties with traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass through encoding, looping, and sampling.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Thaddeus Mosley, Beloved Self-Taught Sculptor, Dies at 99

Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught Pittsburgh sculptor who carved wood for over 70 years, achieved international acclaim in his ninth decade before dying at age 99.
#ceramics
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fromColossal
1 month ago

'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

Self-taught artists across the U.S. create distinctive vernacular environments using salvaged and found materials, driven by spiritual fervor and personal vision.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson

Diane Simpson creates sculptures that combine isometric projection with three-dimensional forms, producing objects that appear inconsistent from different viewpoints.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

thousands of recycled CDs form reflective vertical sculptures in tara donovan's stratagems

Tara Donovan presents Stratagems at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF), at the Transamerica Pyramid Center, installing a group of vertically oriented sculptures made entirely from thousands of recycled CDs. On view until July 31st, 2026, the exhibition is installed within the transparent Annex space. Stratagems enters into a deliberate exchange with the Transamerica Pyramid itself. The sculptures echo the skyscraper's verticality and reflective skin, while their recycled material introduces a counterpoint to the monumentality of the building.
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fromAnOther
2 months ago

Artist Sterling Ruby: "I'm Trying to Make Something Spiritual"

I first saw Stalker in the mid-1980s. I grew up in a very rural community, but I had a group of friends who all wanted something that we couldn't really get where we lived. With film, that was a possibility. I'm in my fifties now. I keep trying to figure out what I'm doing as an artist and how to keep going.
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