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

Creative Boom

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!

Art 510
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Creative leads on the women that inspire them most

Creative Boom

She was on the board of Chisenhale Gallery for five years and is now a trustee of The Hepworth Wakefield. Simonida Pavicevic is the co-founder and curator of the international contemporary art gallery HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art). HOFA Gallery was created with this intent, as a place for acceptance and equality.".

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

. # Hampi Art Labs, Tungabhadra, India by Sameep Padora and Associates Mumbai architect Sameep Padora has been creating sublime architecture attuned to its context – like the wonderful Maya Somaya Library at Kopargaon – since setting up practice in 2006. Due to be completed imminently, the Hampi Art Labs is his most recent masterstroke.

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Abraham Palatnik: 7 Decades of Pushing Artistic Possibilities

Design Milk

A retrospective of artworks by the legendary Abraham Palatnik is now on view at the Nara Roesler Gallery in New York. Composed of colored light bulbs and various mechanisms within a light box, a rare example on view in the gallery creates a hypnotic, colorful Rorschach with intriguing color transitions and ethereal auras.

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DM 15th Anniversary: Top 15 Posts of All Time

Design Milk

American artist Soo Sunny Park took over Rice Gallery, part of Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 2013 with a glistening, labor intensive, abstract installation called Unwoven Light. The suspended piece was made up of 37 individual units composed of chain link fencing that was arranged into a sculptural form that was all about light.

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Mammoth Straw Creatures Populate Japanese Farmland in the Annual Wara Art Festival

Colossal

The towering sculptures are part of the Wara Art Festival , a summertime event that displays massive animals and mythical creations fashioned from the crop’s leftover straw. The monumental figures stand as high as 30 feet, looming over the green landscape in a playful celebration of local culture.

Art 101
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“Could Policy-Making be Considered Architecture?” A Q&A with Frida Escobedo

Azure Magazine

That all changed this March when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art picked her to design its new $500-million modern and contemporary art wing, 7,435 square metres of galleries and public space. In 2006, Escobedo restarted her career by founding her own namesake architectural and design studio.