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Mike Nelson on his sensory new survey, scavenging objects and simulating reality

Creative Boom

Photo credit: Mike Nelson, Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; Matt’s Gallery, London; and neugerriemschneider, Berlin Extinction Beckons is the new immersive show from installation artist Mike Nelson on show at the Hayward Gallery. Various materials. Found tyres. Photo: Matt Greenwood.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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“Evening Star” (2023), aqueous archival inkjet, acrylic archival inkjet, white gold leaf on Hahnemüle rag paper, 60 × 43 inches. See more of Smith’s work at Pace Gallery. “Dark Water” (2023), bronze, 72 × 65 × 28 inches “Dreaming with Birds” (2004), bronze, 47 3/4 x 73 1/2 x 2 inches.

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Rooted in the American South, ‘Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers’ Recognizes Remarkable Artistic Traditions of Black Artists

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Thornton Dial, “Stars of Everything” (2004), mixed media, 248.9 Image © 2023 Estate of Thornton Dial, ARS, NY, and DACS, London 2023. © 2023 Marlene Bennett Jones. Image © 2023 The Larry T. centimeters. All images courtesy of Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, unless otherwise noted. centimeters.

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Layered and Embellished Trapunto Paintings Exude Spirit in Pacita Abad’s First Retrospective

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Image courtesy of Pacita Abad Art Estate, shared with permission Having created more than 5,000 paintings in her lifetime, traveled the world, and shown in over 200 exhibitions, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was one of the most prolific and lauded Filipina-American artists.

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Stelco Tower: An Architectural Love Story

Azure Magazine

I’m publishing this book in 2023 to commemorate the building I love as it turns fifty years old. The other phases were: the Eaton Centre (later Hamilton City Centre and slated for demolition in 2023 to make way for condominium towers); the Library and Farmers’ Market, built in 1980; an office tower with a soaring atrium, also designed by C.F.

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Suburbia, but not as we know it: Stacy Leigh imagines a surreal world to escape into

Creative Boom

The Life of a Drone Day 8, 2023 © Stacy Leigh New York artist Stacy Leigh is getting her first showing in Hong Kong with Escape to B-roll, which reimagines the American Dream in vividly colourful fashion. That led to an unplanned series of 10 paintings, which are now about to go on show at WOAW Gallery Central in Hong Kong.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

In 2014, photographer Milos Bicanski revisited a series of venues constructed for the 2004 edition of the Olympics in Athens, Greece. While only a decade old, the buildings already resembled ruins: overgrown with plants and utterly devoid of human life. Doshi, Dayanita Singh, Reena Saini Kallat, Rohini Devasher and Zarina Hashmi.