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A Trailblazing Photography Collector Champions Black Artists

Feature Shoot

Petros , Hadenbes, 2005. Courtesy the artist/Bradley Ertaskiran Jamel Shabazz. He dedicated it to showcasing photographs by Black artists. While many of these artists are now household names, Dr. Montague was one of the first collectors to recognize their work. He was just ten years old at the time.

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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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Humans Bond with Animals and Nature in Adrian Arleo’s Poetic Ceramic Sculptures

Colossal

For four decades, the Missoula-based artist has explored poetic imagery that creates strong emotional bonds. She focuses on themes of change and transformation, both personal and in our environmental, social, and political realities. x 11 inches Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Behind the Anonymous mask: how V for Vendetta created a timeless symbol of protest

Design Week

In 2005, the story was given a new lease of life thanks to a blockbuster adaptation featuring Natalie Portman. Courtesy of DC The exhibition has original artworks and covers by Lloyd on display, as well as costumes and designs from the 2005 film adaptation (including one of three masks worn by Hugo Weaving, who played V).

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10 Streamable Titles for Design Lovers in the Age of Social Distancing

Azure Magazine

From London to Turkey, documenta to the Venice Biennale , Polish artist and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko has been activating buildings with large-scale slide and video projections for over three decades. Available to stream on Netflix. Moriyama-San.

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Disaster Capitalism: The Provocative Public Art of Prague’s David ?erný

Azure Magazine

The Czech artist explains his ethos thus: “I just enjoy p **g people off.” In the wake of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution and the gradual collapse of the Soviet Union, the young artist assaulted the old order with a guerrilla stunt. A Dracula-themed amusement park. From the outset, ?erný Suddenly, ?erný’s

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The Ever-Evolving World of Social Media Content

Inkbot Design

Though launching in 2005 mainly hosted viral clips under 5 minutes, YouTube now offers more long-form material thanks to mobile filming. Pinterest Visualises “Lifestyle Goals” Launched in 2010 to collect personal images across themes like travel, decor, or cooking, Pinterest established itself as a “visual search engine.”

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