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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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Neal Grundy Floating Fabrics in ‘Transient Sculptures’

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British photographer Neal Grundy is specializing in Freeze Motion photography, for his “Transient Sculptures” series, the viewer may believe he is seeing a solid sculpture in the landscape, when in reality, the image captures a fabric form in ‘mid-flight’.

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

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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.

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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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Claudia Fontes Ceramics ‘Fungus’ Sculptures

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The post Claudia Fontes Ceramics ‘Fungus’ Sculptures appeared first on Trendland Online Magazine Curating the Web since 2006. Her white figures are gripping each other tight as they are transfixed/formed into fungus like growths and spores in an eerie but romantic series. www.claudiafontes.com.