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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibition You, Me and The Balloons is a colourful wonderland of inflatable inspiration: a suitable opener for a brand new type of arts centre. Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Spanning Four Decades, Edward Burtynsky’s Photos Document the Devastating Impacts of Industry

Colossal

Comprising 94 images and 13 large-scale murals, the exhibition showcases the disastrous effects of human consumption from distant, often aerial perspectives that at first glance, appear as alluring, colorful compositions. Burtynsky will also open an exhibition of new works on February 28 at Flowers Gallery in London.

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Cowboys, Gangsters, and Intellectual Humor: The Illustrative World of Glen Baxter

Design You Trust

His unique style caught international attention, and his first solo exhibition was held at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery in New York. The Impending Gleam, published in 1981, is one of his most recognized satirical works. His career later took him to the esteemed V&A, where he served as a teacher from 1967 to 1974.

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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). Photographic practice enters a new stage” The avant-garde journal i10 published Henri’s photographic experiments in issue 17/18 in December 1928, accompanied by a commentary from Moholy-Nagy. Exhibition: “Florence Henri. 2012, October 5).

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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. Going Dark exhibition visual identity at Guggenheim Museum, curated by Ashley James. Published by Ze Books, 2023. “My career trajectory wasn’t an obvious one.

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Ed Fella’s Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art

Eye on Design

In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own lectures, in an exhibition about Surrealism and graphic design at the Moravian Gallery in the Czech Republic. I asked him recently whether he had a list of his exhibitions. he replied. Unlike artists.

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Dawoud Bey pays tribute to the cross-generational fight for civil rights

Creative Review

Known for his large-scale colour photography, Bey’s new monograph, published by the San Francisco Museum of Art with Yale University Press to coincide with a major retrospective of his work at the museum, marks a departure from his typical aesthetic.