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SANAA Expands – and Modernizes – the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Azure Magazine

One of the biggest impacts of the newly expanded Art Gallery of New South Wales , in Sydney, Australia, is made at the programmatic level. The Tank is the lowermost gallery, located in a decommissioned fuel tank bunker. Yayoi Kusama created a sculpture for the North Building’s terrace. The Inaugural Exhibition.

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In China, an Expanded Art Gallery Enlivens a University Campus

Azure Magazine

Shanghai-based firm Atelier Diameter has answered the call with an expansion of the university’s on-campus art gallery. The new gallery faces a small square between the dorms: a bustling locus of activity on campus. The extension juts from the dormitory building like a sculptural appendage.

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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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Jan Kaláb’s Graffiti Has Always Been Art + Now It’s Even More

Design Milk

“My paintings teeter on the edge of sculpture and my sculptures are mostly painted,” said Czechoslovakian contemporary artist Jan Kaláb. Since the early days of his practice, paintings, sculptures, and 3D graffiti have been added to his portfolio, and his work has been shown in galleries around the world.

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

Azure Magazine

Serving the adjacent pedestrian street, the new building preserves the former museum’s galleries and restaurants while adding retail space and public restrooms. The glazed retail spaces highlight the separation between the carved-out base and the sculptural massing above.

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Design Miami: Highlights from our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

Elsewhere in the Miami Design District , UK-based Bohinc Studio’s bubbly Utopia seating sculptures were another eco-conscious delight. This wasn’t Ross’s only big Miami project, either — he was also behind Formation 01, a sculptural Kohler faucet unveiled at Design Miami/.

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Berndnaut Smilde Conjures Fleeting Nimbus Clouds as They Hover Indoors

Colossal

All images courtesy of the artist and Ronchini Gallery, shared with permission For less than ten seconds, Berndnaut Smilde ’s floating sculptures transform galleries, halls, and warehouses into uncanny spaces where indoors meets out. via Aesthetica Magazine ) “Nimbus De.Groen” (2017).