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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Culture of care: surreal celebrations of Iranian tenderness in pictures

Sheida Soleimani's work reframes caring for bodies as a political act in her exhibition, Forest of Stars.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks 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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fromThe Washington Post
3 weeks 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.
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fromArchDaily
2 weeks 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.
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fromArchDaily
3 weeks 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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fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Alicia McCarthy Opens New Solo Show @ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

Alicia McCarthy's art combines vibrant colors and spontaneous gestures, creating interconnected compositions that reflect community and urban life.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks 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.
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fromWallpaper*
1 month ago

This new design gallery is putting the spotlight on South Asian design talent

House of Santal opens in Midtown Manhattan to showcase contemporary South Asian collectible design, presenting one-off and limited-edition Indian furnishings to New York collectors.
Social justice
from48 hills
2 months ago

Ashima Yadava's art documents South Asian survivors-and rebukes hypocritical politics - 48 hills

Ashima Yadava uses photographic storytelling to witness global injustice, confront Western hypocrisy, and imagine urgent paths toward systemic change.
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month 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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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Revisiting Minnesota's "Open House" Exhibition in the Age of ICE

An award-winning museum reconstruction memorialized immigrant generations while recent violent ICE actions in Minneapolis have driven widespread fear and challenged whether America feels like home.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

How sign painting underpins Sean Thomas' approach to bespoke branding projects

If you're based in London, you've probably walked past one of Sean Thomas' meticulously hand-painted designs. Whether that was grabbing a sandwich at Dom's Subs, dining in at Forza Win (an Italian restaurant in Peckham that the designer has shaped the visual identity of over the last three years), or picking up a copy of Hoxton Mini Press' new book on Britain's best bakeries at your local bookshop.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Between Worlds': Musah Swallah art exhibit in Chelsea shows the transformation of surface into message amNewYork

Musah Swallah uses canvas, wood, and cork to foreground material history while making saturated color the structural, inheriting and advancing modern and African painting lineages.
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fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

Six Decades Later, the Design World Shines a Light on Stephen White

Stephen White's decades-long lighting-sculpture practice gained widespread recognition late, coinciding with his handoff to daughter Simone and his retirement.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

Artist Spotlight: Su A Chae

Su A Chae's paintings examine identity and belonging through paradoxical spatial propositions, cultural memory, information asymmetry, and balance framed as active resistance.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

There is no right way, just the creative way: Alex Tan on Mouthwash Studio's multi-media projects

Creative strategy requires flexible, multidisciplinary approaches that combine visual identity, editorial products, and physical spaces to enable imaginative teams and impactful work.
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

The Modern Salon redefines art and brings quiet design authority to the Winter Show | amNewYork

In the midst of the fabulous The Winter Show last weekwhere connoisseurship, collecting, and cultivated taste converge under one vaulted roofthere was a moment of pause, exhale, and recalibration at the heart of the fair: the VIP Collectors Lounge. This year, not as sponsorship, but as philosophy made spatial. It was titled The Modern Salon. Conceived and designed by frenchCALIFORNIA, The Modern Salon rejected the trade-fair instinct toward visual noise and brand fragmentation.
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fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Vivian Chiu on Joyce Lin, Sylvie Rosenthal, Meg Callahan + More

Vivian Chiu combines precise woodworking and sculptural techniques to create optical forms through iterative deconstruction, reconstruction, and research-informed marquetry.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance

Dyani White Hawk's Love Language centers Indigenous cultural legacies, land, lineage, community, and the kapémni form through immersive, multisection installations and monumental sculpture.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Swiss Artist Andre Thomkins Invented 'Lackskins'-Now They Are On View

André Thomkins developed 'Lacksins', a chance-based marbling-derived drawing technique blending bookbinding, varnish-on-water processes, and Surrealist/Dada influences.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Akea Brionne: Time Bends for the Tender @ Lyles & King, NYC

Portraits depict Black women's interior lives using vivid domestic spaces, color masking, and Afro-surreal distortions to explore survival, identity, and emotional reclamation.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Reshapes Walls And Spaces With Explosive Typographic Murals That Turn Buildings Into Giant, 3D Messages

Beautiful And Detailed Paintings In Resin By Feif Dong The Illustrator Has Created a Dreamy World that She Travels Through with Her Boyfriend Elspeth McLean Creates Beautiful Hand-Painted Stones This Artist Creates Beautifully Bizarre Backpacks That Look Like Octopus, Spiders, And Beetles Amazing Surreal And Tribal Backpacks By Konstantin Kofta Saddened By The Empty Streets Of Budapest During Lockdown, This Artist Filled The City With People From Classical Paintings UK Artist Unveils COVID-19 Glass Sculpture, One Million Times The Size Of The Virus
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out

Amid the savagery of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration - culminating in the killing of Renee Nicole MacklinGood - everyday Americans have shown incredible courage in pushing back against ICE's takeover of their cities. Joining them today are several Minnesotaart institutions that will close their doors to protest against the cruel treatment of their neighbors. You can read all about that today, plus a moving personal essay by Ifrah Mansour, a Somali-American artist based in Minnesota.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Artist Sarah Sze: A work of art is finished when everything teeters'

Sarah Sze’s Gagosian Beverly Hills exhibition uses 13 works—large, intricate paintings and video installations—to create immersive, disorienting landscapes reflecting an image‑saturated, unstable contemporary world.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Stephanie Temma Hier Juxtaposes Uncanny Ceramic Sculptures with Embedded Paintings

The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and she fuses the two modes of working into a complementary practice. Hier begins by sculpting a wide range of forms, and after several rounds of firing with both handmade and commercially available glazes, she adds a painting. The pairings arise intuitively, sometimes through free association, trial and error, or by homing in on a color.
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