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Diverse Expressions: 5 Artwork Themes to Discover at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn This May

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Dawn Beckles, “Forever The Cream” (2023), acrylic, charcoal, gold leaf, spray paint, paper on canvas Get ready for an art event unlike any other. The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art returns to ZeroSpace in Brooklyn from May 16 to 19. His digital and mixed media works reflect Black history and culture.

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Cradle: Playful tufted chairs and stools shaped like cats offer comfort and hope

Creative Boom

Titled Cradle, the exhibition at Reem Gallery in Ham Yard, Soho, will bring the Central Saint Martins fine art graduate's unique body of work to the masses, all centring around the recurring theme of cats in nursery rhymes and folk stories. Selby's crafted creatures are timely and offer comfort during these dark times.

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Top 10 Art Posts of 2023

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Large-Scale Ceramics That Are Both Eye-Catching + Functional SCP presented an exhibition of new, large-scale ceramic works by Dutch designer Floris Wubben during this year’s London Craft Week to showcase a series that fuses function with sculpture. And the most popular art post of 2023 is… 1.

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The Best Courses on Skillshare in 2020

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Storytelling 101: Character, Conflict, Context & Craft. View top Fine Art Courses. Personal Branding: Crafting Your Social Media Presence. Storytelling for Leaders: How to Craft Stories That Matter. Productivity Habits That Stick: Using Time Theming. Photography. Illustration. UI/UX Design. Productivity.

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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

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Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. There he took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Europe’s traditional and oldest art academy, where he studied technique and materials of sculpting, art history and anatomy. But he doesn't see that as a contradiction.

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The Alternative Limb Project by Sophie de Oliveira Barata is where art meets science

Creative Boom

Artist and sculptor Sophie de Oliveira Barata has combined art, technology and science to create artificial limbs, which are wearable art pieces for performance and exhibition. The Lewes-based artist explores themes of body image and definitions of beauty. Barata says she has always had an interest in both medicine and art.

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'I like to make pieces that make you look twice': Carly Owens on her symbolic embroidery artworks and paintings

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Both of which have fine art and craft cultures that absolutely influenced me growing up," she explains. Black Mountain, for instance, is the home of Black Mountain College, an experimental art school attended by Anni and Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.