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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. Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

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From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic.

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Wenjia Wang's unusual illustrations give personality to our internal organs

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I hope the audience will enjoy my exhibit and feel connected to my illustrations.". I've always been passionate about art, and I have been practising traditional Chinese calligraphy from a very young age," she says. Encouraged by her high school art teacher Mrs Rideout, she applied to art college. © Wenjia Wang.

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Sara Dobson and Rijul Narwal on how a UAL scholarship changed their lives

Creative Boom

Meet the students Sara Dobson is a British multidisciplinary artist currently studying MA Fine Art: Digital at Central Saint Martins, a course she began in 2022 and will complete in 2024. All the while, my art was always there in the background as an outlet. I'd originally thought, 'What kind of art college will take me?'

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Navigating Genetic Compromises and a Toxic World through Steampunk Self-Portraiture in the Artistic Odyssey of Lix North

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After graduating from NMIT’s School Of Visual Arts, she found solace in Brisbane, Australia, settling there in 2007. For the better part of the following decade, she thrived as a professional illustrator, photographer, and commissioned artist, operating under the moniker of Lix Creative, her graphic art studio.

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December 2021 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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The 2022 Socrates Annual Fellowship program is looking for public art proposals for its Sink or Swim Climate Futures project and group exhibition. The Mattress Factory is hosting an open call for residencies followed by solo exhibitions, which are slated for the spring of 2023. Visual Art Open Prize.

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February 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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The Susannah Kelly Art Award Featured The newly launched Susannah Kelly Art Award offers three $2,000 grants for artists working in drawing, painting, and sculpting. Recipients will also receive a solo exhibition at Antler and Talon galleries in Portland. Deadline: March 22, 2024. Deadline: February 2, 2024. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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