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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

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January Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival – China, 5 Jan-early March Ever been to an ice sculpture festival? Dress warmly in layers and book a guided tour to explore Harbin's ice sculptures and local cuisine. Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, 2020. We'd heartily recommend it!

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Famous Pop Art Artists’ Everlasting Influence on Graphic Design

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You can thank famous pop art artists for the endless impact their genre has made on graphic design. Students in art schools still learn about famous pop art in their courses and intently study the creations of pop art artists to pick up design traits they can use in their own careers. Here are some of his most well-known.

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New York City Ballet Art Series Presents DRIFT’s ‘Shylight’

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DRIFT’s “Shylight” (development 2006–2014), aluminum, polished stainless steel, silk, LEDs, robotics. Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta are DRIFT, a multidisciplinary group that creates experiential sculptures, installations, and performances, uniting audiences with moments that inspire a reconnection to our planet.

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Over 100 Spectacular Artworks Line an Australian Beach for the Annual ‘Sculpture by the Sea’

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The Glue Society, “Hot with A Chance of a Late Storm” (2006). Celebrating its 25th year in this location, the annual Sculpture by the Sea festival showcases more than 100 pieces in various mediums, styles, and sizes, all bordering the Pacific Ocean. Photo by Louise Beaumont. See more from the 2023 edition on Instagram.

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Life and Death Converge in a Two-Sided Field of 17,000 Steel Flowers by Zadok Ben-David

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The sprawling, ecologically diverse installation, which has traveled to multiple cities like Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Paris since 2006, is titled “Blackfield,” a name tied to the flowers’ dualistic nature: one side captures the vibrancy of life through bright, fantastical colors, while the other is painted entirely black.

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Playfulness and Imagination Inform the Textured Wooden Sculptures of Artist Efraïm Rodríguez

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From fallen trees, planks, and old furniture, Efraïm Rodríguez carves vivid sculptures that evoke the imaginative and playful daydreams of childhood. The Barcelona-based artist highlights the texture of the organic material, creating life-sized figures donning garments of veneered wood or whose bodies mimic the toys they stack.

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Claudia Fontes Ceramics ‘Fungus’ Sculptures

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Claudia Fontes is an Argentinean visual artist who explores through her actions, objects and research the poetic space and alternative modes of perception of culture, nature, history and society that emerge from processes of decolonization, be they personal, interpersonal, or social. www.claudiafontes.com.