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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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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.

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5,000 Years of Feminine Power and Prestige Are On Display in ‘Revered and Feared’

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An exhibition on view now at Caixa Forum in Madrid brings 5,000 years of these complicated feelings together through 166 historical and contemporary artworks. The exhibition is global in scale, featuring ancient Greek monsters like Medusa, the Hindu goddess Kali, and depictions of the Christian icon, Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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Florence Henri: the forgotten female pioneer of surreal photography

UX Collective

Florence Henri was a pioneering surrealist artist, photographer, painter, and pianist. After encountering Berlin’s avant-garde artists, she shifted her interest from music to painting, and she began studying painting in Berlin in 1914. This photo was published in the avant-garde magazine i10. Self-portrait, 1928, 39.3

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In ‘Zoophites,’ Les Lalanne Hybridize Beasts and Botany into Functional Sculptures

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All photos by Charlie Rubin, courtesy of Kasmin, shared with permission Now obsolete, the term zoophytes once referred to organisms that exhibited both animal and plant characteristics. Having worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre, the artist often referenced ancient mythology and hybridity in his figures.

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This Artist Creates Thought-Provoking Illustrations About Modern Day Issues

Design You Trust

FadiToOn (Fadi Abou Hassan) is a widely published and award-winning freelance cartoonist. “I am a widely published and award-winning cartoonist/illustrator currently based in the UK. I work as the organizer of “Children in war,” an international cartoon exhibition focused on the suffering of children in war and conflict areas.

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

Design You Trust

This English draftsman and artist, born on 4th March 1944 in Leeds, is celebrated for his absurdist illustrations and for creating an overarching effect often reminiscent of literary nonsense. More: Glen Baxter , Instagram Baxter’s artistic journey began at Leeds College of Art, where he trained from 1960 to 1965.