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Iconic buildings from movies and architecture recreated as birdhouses

Creative Boom

All photography courtesy of the artist and PHX Gallery, Chicago Artist and architect Jason Sargenti has recreated a series of iconic buildings, both real and fictional, as birdhouses, and his work is about to go on show in Chicago. The Architect's Birdhouses is on view by appointment until 13 September at the PHX Gallery in Chicago, USA.

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Raina Jia's colourful and quirky illustrations tell stories in unconventional ways

Creative Boom

Raina would go on to study Fine Arts at the Artcenter College of Design, but this doesn't mean that her foray into graphic design was a waste of time. This is important to me because I want to experience and better document our world. I've not stopped illustrating since then."

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Others were not, so on occasion, they came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. Born in 1957, Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who became prominent in the southern California punk rock scene of the early 1980s, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records.

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Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK

Creative Review

I wanted an antidote to all of that, and to the gallery system, which seemed a closed and fairly elite network. “As time has gone on, I realised that this type of photography has been pretty much neglected by galleries and museums, and has mostly only existed in Sunday supplements and the odd history book,” explains Atkinson.

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Monolith Gallery Reimagines the Traditional Gallery Space for the Metaverse

Feature Shoot

“What if the Earth was a gallery space, and art dropped down from the sky?” ” the NFT art collector Chikai Ohazama wondered. ” That, he tells me, is how Monolith Gallery was conceived. Monolith represents a reimagining of what gallery spaces could look like in the age of Web3.

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A new online show is tracing leading artists’ early commercial practice

Creative Review

Hosted by London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery, the exhibition comprises work by Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, René Magritte and James Rosenquist, all of whom began their practice in the commercial world.

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Photographing the birth of hip-hop

Creative Review

also includes a bonus section documenting the rise of hip hop in Europe: Bramly returned to her native France in 1984 and is credited with helping bring the first US hip hop artists to Europe, including Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000, Rocksteady Crew and many more.  

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