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

Colossal

All images © the artist, courtesy of Pace Gallery, shared with permission If you’ve traveled via the Long Island Rail Road service in Manhattan and traversed the MTA’s brand new Grand Central Madison station, you may have noticed a slice of nature indoors in a monumental, wall-spanning mosaic of a woodland deer.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Others were not, so on occasion, they came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American writer, philosopher and political activist best known for her essays on modern culture and criticism of the Vietnam War. Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel.

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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 Encompassing more than 60 quilts, sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and assemblages by 34 artists from the mid-20th-century to the present, the exhibition is drawn largely from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. centimeters. x 40 centimeters.

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A NEW BOOK ON THE ART OF PHIL HALE

Illustration Art

Hale is an artist well worth following because he continues to grow and evolve in interesting ways I've just received an advance copy of Hale's beautiful new book, Use Music to Kill , a collection of his work from 2004 to 2018. The book gives us a rich collection of three types of work: paintings, drawings and photographic assemblages.

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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. A symbol of winding migrant journeys, the sculptural form culminates in panoramic views of the landscape. “For me, it’s a metaphor for the journeys of migrants who passed through this building.”

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Milan Design Week 2022: Highlights from Our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

Meanwhile, in the EuroCucina section of the fair, there was equal focus on cooking as a science and as an art form, with innovative new approaches to range hoods, steam ovens, and storage solutions sharing space with sculptural new kitchen systems. Design is Milano is design.

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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

Alongside design, being the “creative polymath” he was, she says he worked across disciplines as diverse as theatre set design, sculpture, painting and even dance. As for how the exhibition will use the “light sculpture”, Ostende has worked closely with exhibition designer Lucy Styles who was brought into the project.