article thumbnail

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. Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

Art 536
article thumbnail

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. During her time as an art student, she also worked at a hospital serving tea and coffee. In fact, it changed her career path. "I

Art 280
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Florence Henri: the forgotten female pioneer of surreal photography

UX Collective

It is a typical painting influenced by Constructivism (1915–1930) (The Art Story, 2012). First World War Exhibition at IWM London Review: Sights and Sounds of the Trenches. Exhibition: “Florence Henri. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from [link] Exhibit Examines Ohio’s Forgotten Role In The Women’s Suffrage Movement.

article thumbnail

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. Going Dark exhibition visual identity at Guggenheim Museum, curated by Ashley James. ” Jiminie has come a long way in her career and shows no signs of slowing down.

article thumbnail

Skate culture: No comply

UX Collective

Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. The everything.

article thumbnail

Remembering Bob Gill: “There’s no such thing as a bad client”

Design Week

He later studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving to New York. In a full-circle moment for the studio, Pentagram led the design on an immersive exhibition for the band at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2016.

Client 76
article thumbnail

Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century

Feature Shoot

Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Allon Schoener mounted Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 , a three month long multimedia exhibition designed extensively to highlight the history of Harlem throughout the twentieth century. But survival, above all things, is paramount.