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Anniversary book from Semi Permanent is a 20-year time capsule of stunning creativity

Creative Boom

It also includes fresh contributions from filmmaker Roman Coppola, industrial designer Sabine Marcelis, architect Bjarke Ingels, artist CJ Hendry, and digital entrepreneur Mikaela Jade. Designed in-house, the book archives significant projects from the past as well as significant ideas that can guide us into the future.

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15 Artists Bring Spectacular Mirages to the Arabian Desert

Azure Magazine

Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla. 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. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla. Photo Lance Gerber.

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Two Curious Gerbils Visit (and Chew on) a Miniature Art Museum Made by Their Quarantined Owners

Colossal

Stay-home orders around the world have inspired people to fill their time creatively—think the recreations of well-known artworks and “Coronavirus Tourism Bureau” posters we mentioned last week. But rather than fashion a mock art exhibition for themselves, this London couple thought a little bit smaller. from r/aww.

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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. Image courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Matthew Angelo Harrison. Where : Salon 94 Gallery , 3 E 89 th St, New York, NY.

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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. Portrait of the artist in his studio. “I like to teach with my work, and I want to make something that’s very meaningful,” he says.

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What to See at Toronto’s 2021 Contact Photography Festival

Azure Magazine

Now in its 25th year, Toronto’s annual Contact Photography Festival routinely transforms a host of sites across the city — from parking lots to hotel facades — with cutting-edge work by national and international artists working with lens-based media. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS. COURTESY THE ARTIST.

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

Design Milk

Water in the Southern Hemisphere by Ron Arad I saw this when it was first exhibited in Milan in 2007 in exactly this setting. It’s New Zealand’s first design-led tourism experience. Only after all this will he take his design digital. Today, David Trubridge joins us to share more in Friday Five ! Photo: Ron Arad 1.

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