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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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Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism, the Exhibition

Design Milk

The newly opened Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism exhibition showcases the bold, explorative urbanism they’re known for through a variety of design strategies used to create vibrant and sustainable community-orientated spaces within densely populated urban spaces. © Photo Courtesy of Hong Kong Design Institute.

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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. The exhibition page features some great full images of individual paintings (scroll near bottom of that link).

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2023 Year in Review: Unframed

Design Milk

Marbled and Bewildered was his third solo exhibition at Van Doren Waxter gallery and New Yorkers are hungry for more. What we re-quire is / silence, 2023 Kennedy Yanko’s Poetic Fusion of Metal and “Paint Skin” Brooklyn-based artist Kennedy Yanko’s exhibition Humming on Life presented 10 new artworks on view at Jeffery Deitch.

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Solid Lightning: Ugo Rondinone’s Stunning New Sculpture

Design Milk

In 2013, Ugo Rondinone’s 20-foot stone figures took over Rockefeller Plaza. His latest exhibition, bright light shining feels like a dream while you’re still in it – both familiar and bizarre. The sculptures initially appear to be upside-down trees or massive roots – but are in fact bronze.

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Sprawling Roots and Richly Hued Gowns Permeate Mary Sibande’s Postcolonial Artworks

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From “A Terrible Beauty is Born” (2013), archival digital print, 43 1/4 × 126 × 3 inches. Living and working in Johannesburg, Sibande shares many of her postcolonial projects and news about future exhibitions on Instagram. “A Reversed Retrogress: Scene 1” (2013). Get a deeper look into her work on Artsy.

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Impressive Futuristic Installations and Sculptures by Jonathan Latiano

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Jonathan Latiano creates large, site-responsive, installation sculptures that investigate concepts of time and our subjective perception of the past, present and future. In 2013, he won the prestigious Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in Art, which led his first solo museum exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.