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Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks

Creative Boom

Japanese illustrator Shotaro Kitada uses humble rolls of copy paper to create three-dimensional handmade sculptures that inhabit their own peculiar reality. Taking the shape of whacky giant heads perched on the top of vans to clumsy pedestrians getting their tongues stuck to icy lampposts, Shotaro's sculptures are a bizarre joy to behold.

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Weishan Yang is a multimedia artist with a love of horror fiction, ghosts and spontaneity

Creative Boom

Working across installation, sculpture, video, and digital drawing, London and Hangzhou-based Weishan Yang is a polymath of sorts. In recent times, she's had recognition for her works, too, having shown internationally at exhibitions, with a recent piece being shown in London Grads Now 21 at Saatchi Gallery.

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Megan Du on creating bright and bold illustrations that are fascinated with retro-futurism

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It was like my first mini-exhibition," Megan tells Creative Boom. At the same time, she was constantly being exposed to comics, magazines and picture books with a look to becoming a painter or a fashion designer when she grew up. "To I thought it was a very free field, and you could express yourself in any way you wanted."

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A French “Truck Museum” Travels the World in Style

Azure Magazine

Even for modern art-lovers in major cities, it can be difficult to find the time to visit an exhibition. The first iteration of the traveling exhibition was spearheaded by architect Adam Kalkin — and built from a humble shipping container. Last year, the program included two 2023 exhibitions: “Musique!

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The 20 Best Art Blogs in 2024

We And The Color

The world of art is full of blogs that offer valuable information about art galleries, exhibitions, and movements. WE AND THE COLOR WE AND THE COLOR is the top blog on the list for online magazines. Graffiti Art Magazine Graffiti Art Magazine is a blog that you should check out if you are into graffiti art.

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

Creative Boom

Nowadays, she combines both and has gone on to exhibit works widely, including at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York as part of the annual contemporary jewellery exhibition, MAD About Jewellery. Thy Bird Leaveth Thee, A photographic story by Olesya Parfenyuk featuring jewelry by Carly Owens f0r Holm Magazine © Carly Owens.

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The International Rugby Experience is a New Architectural Landmark for Limerick

Azure Magazine

From the street, the façade evokes a sculptural quality, with deep vertical brick piers and horizontal pre-cast concrete elements creating a series of recessed bays designed to complement the proportions of the adjacent streetscape. The tight urban site forced McLaughlin to build up rather than out, stacking the programs seven storeys high.