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Diverse Expressions: 5 Artwork Themes to Discover at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn This May

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Ahead of the main event, we’re highlighting five categories of artists based on shared themes, offering a look at the diverse range of artistic practices at this year’s fair. She honed her craft as a graphic designer and in her art, she uses illustrations and stitch works to echo her love for design and travel.

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Seven of the best emerging photographers to follow in 2022

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A fine art photographer born and raised in south London, Jodie Bateman converted to Islam in 2017 and has since shifted her work to question stereotypes around being a Muslim living in the Western world. Anna Neubauer is a children's and fine art portrait photographer and visual artist from Austria, currently based in London.

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

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

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

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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Born in 1957, Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who became prominent in the southern California punk rock scene of the early 1980s, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records. The Pursuit of Art by Martin Gayford. Martin Gayford is an art critic best known for his work for The Telegraph and The Spectator.

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

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Orbitals (International) Open to applicants from or living in the Arab world, this program takes four curators, artists, and arts researchers to Indonesia to for an eight-day trip to learn about a different artistic context in the Global South and share this knowledge with their communities. Travel reimbursements are also available.

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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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