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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

In 2022, he published a monograph with Phaidon. He's currently creating work for major international projects, including an enormous sculpture covered in mythological aquatic doodles for the EXPO 2025 in Osaka. © Jean Jullien © Jean Jullien © Jean Jullien 2. © Maïté Franchi © Maïté Franchi 9.

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From Single Balls of Clay, Paul S. Briggs ‘Hand-Turns’ Leafy Vessels

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Curling leaves and pinched patterns cloak the bold vessels of artist Paul S. Using a slab-building technique, he creates chunky sculptures that nod to nature, mindfulness, and the malleability of his chosen medium. Briggs approaches his process as a kind of meditation, pinch-forming each piece from a single ball of clay.

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Lauren Halsey’s ’emajendat’ Is an Energetic Celebration of South Central Los Angeles

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Inspired by the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Lauren Halsey s family has lived for generations, vibrant sculptures and site-specific installations vividly reflect the artist’s community.

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The Cooper Hewitt Heads Home with the Smithsonian Design Triennial Exhibition

Azure Magazine

III Confronting Current Realities Patterns of Life by Mona Chalabi and SITU Research The mood grows heavier throughout much of the exhibitions second section, Seeking Home. While everyone deserves a home, not everyone gets to enjoy one and as places like L.A. and Gaza demonstrate, a home can be a very fragile thing.

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5 Must-See Artists at The Other Art Fair Los Angeles This February

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Mark Rebennack, 136 Exhales in White on Pink and Blue Spray (2021), ink on paper Mark Rebennack mesmerizes with wave-like patterns drawn to the length of a single breath. His hypnotic compositions celebrate imperfection and the art of pure mark-making. Her unglazed pieces radiate raw elegance, tactile beauty, and a serene earth-toned palette.

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Shane Laptiste on Reframing Spatial Narratives in Montreal and Beyond

Azure Magazine

In exploring Black space and visual culture, we not only use physical spaces to inform our work, we also use stories, histories, narratives, but also are informed by different materials from the African diaspora like materials and fabrics and artwork and craft, and artists and music and culture and sculpture, and also architecture.

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Fairness isn’t a metric: what creatives in tech should learn from the WGA strikes

UX Collective

The 2022–23 strike was different. Patterns fray. And when I try to picture that idea, I see Jeff Koons’s Rabbit sculpture. Rabbit was the most expensive sculpture by a living artist ever sold at auction. I wasn’t one of them. I didn’t know anyone with a WGA card. The strike felt abstract — loud, yes, but not personal.