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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty? What is beauty?

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

Creative Boom

Mike Nelson, MAGAZIN: Büyük Valide Han, 2003. Installation view, Büyük Valide Han, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2003. Courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery Installation view of Mike Nelson, The Asset Strippers (solstice), 2019. Found tyres. Photo: Matt Greenwood. Photo: Matt Greenwood.

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Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize

Creative Boom

The prize, which pays tribute to art patrons and designers Ralph and Muriel Saltzman, sees Keisha receive a $10,000 award and additional funds to support a solo exhibition of her work at the Javits Center on September 6–8, 2024. "It It is a wonderful honour to be awarded the inaugural Saltzman Prize," said Keisha.

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Barbara Cole's underwater photos are ethereal, timeless and utterly enthralling

Creative Boom

Once I began to shoot underwater in 2003, I thought that that series would be a one-off," he notes. "I Selections from Somewhere will appear in a photography book, Between Worlds , from teNeues publishing house, and in several forthcoming exhibitions, including at the new Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto, from now until 30 September.

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Olafur Eliasson Floods an Art Gallery in Basel

Azure Magazine

In an act that he describes as “caring,” Eliasson removed most of the windows from the museum’s main gallery, allowing the nearby pond to spill into the building’s interior. The flooded gallery’s bare white walls provide an almost ironic backdrop, as art takes place, unconventionally, below the visitor’s feet. .

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Large-Scale Ceramic Works Break Barriers in the ZEMLYA Exhibition

Design Milk

Ukrainian artist-ceramicist Serhii Makhno is celebrating his inaugural gallery exhibition currently taking place at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York City. Ongoing conversations with gallery founder Melanie Courbet led to the two developing this series of unique sculptural, functional pieces.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

A procession of designers had made their way to the city over the course of the year to take part in a new workshop/exhibition space supported by KW Institute for Contemporary Art — Na Kim , Karel Martens, Esen Karol, Fikra ’s Salem Al-qassimi, among them. Over those five years, the exhibitions at P!