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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view_ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Yayoi-chan, 2012-2023 Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios.

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Joelle McKenna brings the creative struggle to life in comic store installation

Creative Boom

But how many of us have actually used that struggle in our art? A 2012 graduate from Boston University's College of Fine Art, she's also the creative director of Brooklyn Magazine print publication. If you're wondering what that might look like, here's a great example from Joelle McKenna.

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The Alternative Limb Project by Sophie de Oliveira Barata is where art meets science

Creative Boom

Artist and sculptor Sophie de Oliveira Barata has combined art, technology and science to create artificial limbs, which are wearable art pieces for performance and exhibition. Her studio offers bespoke products to amputees that either blend in with their bodies or stand out as wearable pieces of art for the user. Photo by R.

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Paula Scher and Jonathan Yeo launch online courses in design and painting with the BBC

Creative Boom

Described as the "master conjurer of the instantly familiar," she straddles the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. In a typical project in 2012, Scher created a new logo for Windows 8 that took it back to its roots as a window. Early in the development process, Scher asked: "Your name is Windows.

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Inside Quantum Art, The Photography Platform Making Art History on the Blockchain

Feature Shoot

In November of last year, the curated photography platform Quantum Art launched its first collection: a series of cyanotype self-portraits made by the artist Amy Elkins over the course of 377 days. This is something artists have advocated for for decades now, and in the traditional art world, at least in the US, it has not been the norm.

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F5: Jiminie Ha’s Book Plans, the Furniture That Changed Her Life + More

Design Milk

” Launching in 2012, with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, and fashion, With Projects, Inc. Growing up in France, my parents were constantly taking us to museums and art institutions whenever they had the chance. Photo: Jiminie Ha 1. Photo: Jiminie Ha 2.

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Florence Henri: the forgotten female pioneer of surreal photography

UX Collective

Therefore, she married a Swiss domestic servant and moved to Paris in 1925 to study painting in the art studio of cubism. It is a typical painting influenced by Constructivism (1915–1930) (The Art Story, 2012). Atlas Gallery | Fine Art Photography. The Museum of Modern Art. 2012, October 5).