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

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Yayoi Kusama’s Current Exhibition Offers a New Infinity

Design Milk

In 2013, I had the privilege to visit ( and feature here ) a dazzling Infinity Room by one of the most famous and influential artists alive: Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023 (detail) © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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

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” 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.

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A New Exhibition Looks at Our Complex Relationship with Animals

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In 2013, Shannon Johnstone met a puppy named Karsten at the Wake County Animal Center in Raleigh, North Carolina as part of her long-term project Landfill Dogs , a series of photographs of shelter dogs who are at risk of being euthanized. “I Now, an exhibition of five female artists is hoping to shift the narrative.

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Skate culture: No comply

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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.

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Shannon Johnstone on Creating Photos That Help Animals

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” Weezy at Landfill Park, November 2013. “I think my proudest moment was at the panel discussion of the All Creatures Great and Small exhibition in Raleigh, NC in October 2019. These different areas and functions of photography are rarely featured together in a group exhibition.

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A Trailblazing Photography Collector Champions Black Artists

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The project grew from there: today, the hugely influential collection includes more than four hundred works, selections of which are now part of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. Dr. Montague has spent decades traveling the world and meeting artists, and he shares many of those stories within the book and exhibition.

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