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Resin-Fossilized and Machine-Cut: The Art of Matthew Angelo Harrison

Design Milk

Detroit-born artist Matthew Angelo Harrison’s first solo exhibition at Salon 94 in New York feels ancient and futuristic, seductive and uncomfortable, completely human and totally alien. The “African” sculptures offer the most complex questions. Installation view, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Ambidex, 2021 Photo: Farzad Owrang.

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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

He started off with plans to carve wooden sculptures, but in the process of renovating, he unintentionally picked up woodcraft – an easier path to creating furniture. Whereas he’s practical in nature, she attended art school, trained as a sculptor, and has a freer, more open approach to creating. Photo: Ron Arad 1.

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15 Artists Bring Spectacular Mirages to the Arabian Desert

Azure Magazine

The organization behind the exhibition, The Desert Biennial , is a California-based arts non-profit dedicated to staging site-specific interventions that build upon the land art movement of the ’60s and ’70s. This year’s open-air exhibition adopts the theme of sarab , or mirage. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla.

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Warhol, Land Art and a giant mirrored building set in the striking desert landscape of ancient Saudi Arabia

Creative Boom

With a population of 35 million, and more than 75% aged under thirty-five, the Kingdom is embarking on transformational development to embolden, employ and entertain its populous and attract growing national, regional and international tourism. FAME: Andy Warhol in AlUla cleverly plays on the idea that Warhol himself was a mirror of his time.

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Invoking Black Masking Traditions, Artist Demond Melancon Beads Elaborate, Celebratory Portraits

Colossal

The “wearable sculptures” are elaborate and celebratory, and Melancon’s works are known for their immense nature and for exhibiting his deft technical skill. I like the light in the old-school paintings, in the Florentine art, in the art from the 1700s.”

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Milan Design Week 2022: Highlights from Our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

Commissioned by the local tourism agency, the posters are the work of Riccardo De Franceschi, the Milan-born creative director of London typeface design studio Dalton Maag. Heading into the 60th anniversary edition of Salone del Mobile at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre. Design is Milano is design.

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A Vibrant Coral Ecosystem of Thousands of Crocheted Sculptures Confronts the Climate Crisis

Colossal

The Australia-born, California-based sisters began the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 to confront the devastations of bleaching, over – fishing, tourism, and agricultura l contaminations through sprawling, labor-intensive environments. and will be on view at the Museum Frieder Burda until June 26.