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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland.

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DDW23: The Perpetual Motion that Drives Kiki Van Eijk and Joost Van Bleiswijk

Design Milk

Kiki Van Eijk and Joost Van Bleiswijk, otherwise known as Kiki and Joost , opened up their workshop during Dutch Design Week 2023 for an exhibition entitled Perpetuum Mobile , Latin for “perpetual motion.” “Fear has no place here.

Sculpture 101
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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. The massive suits he creates, and wears as a Black Master in ceremonial battles on Mardi Gras day, are sculptural forms based on his own body. Glass beads. A whole lot of time.

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Sonya Clark Uses Common Fibers to Weaves Together Craft, Community, and Activism

Colossal

“The Hair Craft Project: Hairstyles on Canvas” (2014), silk threads, beads, shells, and yarn on canvas, nine at 29 × 29 inches and two at 33 × 33 inches. Titled We Are Each Other , the exhibition encompasses 25 years of the artist’s participatory works that highlight the inextricable links between craft and community.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

In 2014, photographer Milos Bicanski revisited a series of venues constructed for the 2004 edition of the Olympics in Athens, Greece. When the 1,800-square-metre building opens its doors, it will host everything from exhibitions and language courses to concerts and informal gatherings.

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Counterpublic Mines the Depths of Civic Memory in St. Louis

Azure Magazine

Long-standing racial tensions came to a head in 2014 when Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in the suburb of Ferguson, sparking the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. Yet, as co-founder and art director James McAnally explains “The issues explored within the scope of Counterpublic, frames St. Photo by Jon GItchoff.

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The Block Museum of Art Presents ‘The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto’

Colossal

This central question resonates throughout the exhibition The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto jointly presented by Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art and the McCormick School of Engineering, running January 26 through July 9, 2023, in Evanston, Illinois.