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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

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“The writing often references previously published texts that can be problematic and outmoded.” Image courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York All pieces by Dana Claxton. 2005), red cedar, acrylic, and horsehair, 24 x 20 x 10 inches.

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A New Book Celebrates the Groundbreaking Women Who Changed Land Art

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Image © Lita Albuquerque, courtesy of the artist and Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. Using wood, steel, plants, peat moss, and other organic matter became commonplace in the genre known as land art, which included works made directly on the earth or with natural materials brought into the gallery. All images courtesy of Artbook D.A.P.,

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

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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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A New Book Flies Through the Vast World of Birds from Art and Design to History and Ornithology

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Published by Phaidon , the stunning, 352-page volume compiles works from hundreds of artists, illustrators, photographers, and designers—including Lorna Simpson ( previously ), Nick Cave ( previously ), Ernst Haeckel ( previously ), and Florentijn Hofman ( previously )—who choose ostriches, flamingos, and other avians as their central motifs.

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Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK

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Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house that specialises in limited edition photographic books that focus on British documentary photography. Started in 2005 by Craig Atkinson, it began as an antidote to the work he’d been creating himself as an artist. I didn’t see myself or my work fitting into that.

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

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” Radius Gallery in Missoula will host a solo exhibition of Arleo’s work next summer, and she regularly teaches workshops. x 22 x 11 inches Detail of “Persistence Badger” “Embodiment II” (2005), clay and glaze, 6 x 11.5 You can follow Instagram for updates, and find more work on her website.

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A “One-Man Print Archive of Culture, Community, and Social Change” — Café Royal Share Five Favorite Books

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This impressive image-based publisher shares the best of documentary photography in weekly releases that cater to those interested in subcultures, British and Irish post-war history and more. It started in 2005. The vision for Café Royal Books was the idea of disseminating art, without a gallery.

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