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

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty? What is beauty?

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'I destroy the work after an exhibition': Inside the weird worlds of artist JeeYoung Lee

Creative Boom

South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. Opening on 23 June, Maiden Voyage sees JeeYoung transform the NOW Gallery space into a forest of hanging ginkgo leaves interspersed with floating paper aeroplanes and a monumental paper boat.

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Class of 2022: A guide to all the UK's graduate shows this summer

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22 Men by Emma Williams, MA Art and Science (Central Saint Martins). Celebrating the best creative work from Goldsmiths students, spanning fine art, design, film-making, photography and more, this year's annual summer shows run until 26 July at venues across the UK capital. Degree Show , Slade School of Fine Art.

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Ensemble: Paintings by Susie Stone celebrate our return to freedom, fashion and self-expression

Creative Boom

On show at Eames Fine Art Gallery in London next month, the striking artworks feature women who meet us posed, positioned and postured in a dazzling array of attire that invites us to consider that most portable form of expression – fashion. But they beg the question, what to wear? From the series, Ensemble © Susie Stone.

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Neri&Hu’s Bold New Addition to a Chinese Art Museum

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In Xi’an, China, the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is focused on the restoration and exhibition of ancient Chinese murals. Serving the adjacent pedestrian street, the new building preserves the former museum’s galleries and restaurants while adding retail space and public restrooms.

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Bunch Auctions Offers 20th- and 21st-Century Fine Art From the Stephen Heighton Collection

Colossal

On June 30, Bunch Auctions ’ 20th- and 21st-Century Fine Art Auction draws together a remarkable selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and media art by influential contemporary artists. Bunch Auctions’ 20th- and 21st-Century Fine Art Auction will be online starting at 12 p.m. EST on June 30.

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Resting with Ancients: Nichola Theakston Invokes Animal Spirits in Her Contemplative Bronze Sculptures

Colossal

“I have been working recently on canine and feline subjects with reference to ancient Egyptian forebears and sculptural representations,” Theakston tells Colossal. Theakston is currently casting a new macaque study at Castle Fine Arts Foundry in Powys, Wales. See more on her website and Instagram.