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New exhibition casts cowboy culture in a new light

Creative Boom

Anthony Hurd, Howdy Stranger, 2024 With Beyonce's album Cowboy Culture riding high in the charts, the opening of the new exhibition Weird West couldn't be better timed. So it's the perfect time for the opening of a new group exhibition, Weird West , at Hashimoto Contemporary gallery in Los Angeles. Many of us love a good Western.

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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

Sarah Graham has become a renowned British artist for her fun and joyful kitsch paintings, paying homage to familiar toys, sweets and brands from the 1980s and 1990s. She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar.

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Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

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Courtesy of the artist. An imaginative new art show points to how the horror genre influences rebellious artists and helps us to understand a chaotic world. That's the theory, at least, expounded by a new exhibition hosted by London's Somerset House. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

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Adrian Cox's visionary art explores mythic narratives and spiritual meaning

Creative Boom

The LA-based artist conjures magical worlds and invites us to explore them together "like a shared dream". We share some highlights of his upcoming exhibition, The Brush and the Torch. Cox's new show will feature 25 new works, marking his largest solo exhibition to date and fourth at the gallery.

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380 Artists, 51 Countries, 14 Years: A Community Embroidery Project Connects Women Around the Globe

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All images courtesy of Kirstie Macleod, shared with permission In her early 20s, artist Kirstie Macleod became intimately aware of the ways working with a shared purpose has the potential to form immediate bonds. Part of the project is to ensure that artists are compensated and have the opportunity to sell more of their work in the future.

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Artist Vik Muniz Reconfigures Shredded Cash

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Included in a double-feature exhibition, Muniz’s work once again celebrates everyday material, ignites the imagination, confuses reality, and questions current systems of symbols and representation. on the west side of Manhattan. Amelia Earhart, Legal Tender, 2024 Installation view of Scraps and Legal Tender, Sikkema Jenkins & Co.,

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New art exhibition in Ukraine offers a range of perspectives on war, past and present

Creative Boom

Jam Factory, a new arts centre in Lviv, Ukraine, has just launched its opening exhibition. Here at Creative Boom, we get invited to a lot of exhibitions, and there's unfortunately never time to attend them all. But here we're going to take a deep dive into some of the artwork in the exhibition itself.