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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

Creative Boom

Art Basel Miami Beach. We list the most exciting events around the world to help enrich your mind and fuel your inspiration. Embrace the blank canvas of the year by planning a trip around a cultural event. Dress warmly in layers and book a guided tour to explore Harbin's ice sculptures and local cuisine.

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Artists demonstrate how to grab attention at the world's biggest design event

Creative Boom

The world's largest design event, Milan Design Week, is a funny old thing. This air of exclusivity is magnified by the fact that you have to be 'in the know' to find where a lot of the events are even taking place. Yes, it's quite a complex topic to evoke in a work of visual art. We report from the show.

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Murugiah set to light up Greenwich Peninsula with dazzling Rangoli Mirrored Cosmos sculpture

Creative Boom

London-based interdimensional artist Murugiah is set to illuminate the Greenwich Peninsula this September with a new light sculpture titled Rangoli Mirrored Cosmos. Opening on 16 September, the sculpture will also feature large interactive floor graphics at specific slots.

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Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks

Creative Boom

Japanese illustrator Shotaro Kitada uses humble rolls of copy paper to create three-dimensional handmade sculptures that inhabit their own peculiar reality. Taking the shape of whacky giant heads perched on the top of vans to clumsy pedestrians getting their tongues stuck to icy lampposts, Shotaro's sculptures are a bizarre joy to behold.

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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

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Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view_ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Positioned on the floor, these soft sculptures invite visitors, for the first time, to sit or lie on the works. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Quentin Blake Centre launches the UK's first National Illustration Day

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Public arts organisation The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has today launched the UK's first country-wide celebration of pictures and the people who make them with National Illustration Day, which will take place on 24 November. This will offer drop-in workshops on the day and encourage people to give the art of illustration a go.

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Learn to Design Immersive Artworks for your Home or Events

We And The Color

With this online course by Tiffany Lusteg, you will learn to create immersive artworks to elevate any space or event using innovative do-it-yourself techniques. Tiffany Lusteg is an artist from California specializing in large-scale immersive installations, murals, spatial design, and sculptures. Take the course at Domestika.

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