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The Toronto Biennial of Art Spotlights Land-Based Knowledge

Azure Magazine

Her research and knowledge — and the contentious nature of the land that the TBA operates on — underpinned each decision, and this is apparent in the programming, which features several Indigenous artists. Image courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Brian Jungen might be a familiar name to some Torontonians.

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Inger Johanne Grytting — Solo Exhibition at Westwood Gallery NYC

We And The Color

After moving to NY, she studied sculpture under modernist Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and then was mentored by Norwegian artist Jan Groth (1938-2022), whose work focused on the simplicity of line and picture plane. T 6, 2010, graphite on paper, 22 x 22 inches 55.9 M 19, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches 91.4 inches 76.2

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

We are pleased to welcome this superlative group of leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 13th year. In 2010, Fougere was appointed creative director of Canadian design house EQ3.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

Shillington

The building’s exterior featured large murals and sculptures created by women artists and the interior was designed to be a welcoming and supportive space for women. He is a partner at the global design firm Pentagram and has been working in their New York office since 2010.

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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

Haile Selassie, Demond Melancon, 2010 Photo: Christopher Porché West. The massive suits he creates, and wears as a Black Master in ceremonial battles on Mardi Gras day, are sculptural forms based on his own body. Their core services are education programs, advocacy, network building and emergency relief.

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The 10 Projects that Defined a Decade of Canadian Architecture

Azure Magazine

60 Richmond Street East by Teeple Architects, 2010. Architects are rarely granted the opportunity to work with such a powerful history and program, but having the grace to pull it off with such aplomb is rarer still. Want to solve the housing crisis? Build 1,000 of these. Seldom does the romance of home take on such resonance.

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

Azure Magazine

She kept it running while pursuing her Master of Architecture at Harvard’s GSD from 2010 to 2012. What substituted a traditional apprenticeship for me was a mentorship program: “Jóvenes Creadores” [Young Creators], with Mauricio Rocha as my tutor. Being a designer, what I try to do is not simply accept a program handed to me.