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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

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It's a theme that author and illustrator Xinyue Chen, AKA Maiyashu, explores to great effect in their latest picture book, I Will Always Be Here. To enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, I spent many years of my life learning traditional and academic painting," they reveal. "To What do you picture when you think of home?

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Beyond the Brand: new Warhol exhibition unearths rarely-seen art treasures

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As art historian and museum curator Joachim Pissarro's accompanying essay explains: "Ads is a masterful culmination of Warhol's career-long interest in the blurred lines between commercialism and fine art, and it resituates these omnipresent themes into a new state-of-the art array consonant with this late era's zeitgeist.

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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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Old paintings, childhood drawings and Barbie dolls are just some of the raw materials used in the multidisciplinary works of the Cameron Twins , an identical duo of creatives whose garish art playfully explores dreams, the imagination, and the role that nostalgia plays in shaping our lives.

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

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Open Calls ArteAlta (International) This annual competition organized by Alina Art Foundation, Inarttendu, and the Council of the Region Valle d’Aosta invites artists to submit work across painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, textiles, paper, and video related to the theme of Fear. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman who's now considered one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. He's since become widely recognised in the fine art world for his innovative use of American iconography and satirical critiques of US culture.

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

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Noguchi Museum 2024 Open Call for Artist Banners (New York City) The Noguchi Museum invites working artists ages 18+ who reside in New York City and self-identify as Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) to submit designs for the museum’s outdoor banners, responding to the theme of “love and labor.” Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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

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Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art. In 2023, the foundation awarded $25,000 each to 20 artists. Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on January 17, 2024. Deadline: Rolling.

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