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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

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. The new venue will be commissioning and presenting a year-round programme by leading artists from across the world. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

Bauhaus Graphic Design : Past, Present, and Future The Bauhaus school revolutionised graphic design by pioneering bold, minimalist styles emphasising function over ornamentation. From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age.

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

Creative Boom

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. RA Schools Show , Royal Academy of Arts.

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

Creative Boom

Inspired by her heritage, this piece meditates on JeeYoung's past and the present, relationships, literature and nature. My mother never made a debut as an artist, but she majored in fine art in college. The ginkgo leaves are made of plastic sheets (Foamex, hand-crafted), and other origami sculptures are made of aluminium.

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

Creative Boom

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. He then travelled and stayed in Germany and the United States, before moving to Italy. What is beauty?

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Bizarre Sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt From the 18th Century

Design You Trust

Later, Messerschmidt attended the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts and assisted at a foundry. After failing to gain a professorship of sculpture position at the academy, Messerschmidt left Vienna and returned to Wiesensteig. He learned his trade from two uncles, a court sculptor in Munich, and an artist based in Graz, Austria.

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Top 10 Art Posts of 2023

Design Milk

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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