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New Alexis Rockman exhibition is an urgent look at the rise of global wildfires

Creative Boom

The paintings, developed over 2023, are presented in a critical "moment of no return" regarding the global climate crisis. Putting the behaviour of humans around the world under the microscope, Conflagration presents "a pressing vision of the critical environmental state of the planet."

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Simone Brewster's new exhibition explores our social relationship with objects

Creative Boom

Acclaimed designer, architect and visual artist Simone Brewster is here to boldly challenge those assumptions in a new design commission, The Shape of Things , at NOW Gallery in Greenwich, London. It draws on the concept of 'intimate architecture': the effect of texture and three-dimensional form on memory and emotion.

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Brick Beguiles in Retail Design for Leica’s New Manhattan Store + Gallery

Design Milk

But Brooklyn-based Format Architecture Office bucks this standard practice with the unveiling of their remarkable design for the Leica Store & Gallery in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, which transforms the formerly dilapidated building into a contemporized historical neighborhood fixture.

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PJ Riley's first solo show is a portal to a world of emotional intensity

Creative Boom

Caribbean-based British artist PJ Riley is coming to London's J/M Gallery this spring with his first solo show. Inspired by the vibrancy of Matisse and the spontaneity of Jackson Pollock, PJ Riley's paintings also reference the distortions of Picasso and the textured brush marks of van Gogh.

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Furniture + Sculpture Fuse in the Head Hand Foot Exhibition

Design Milk

Serving as both his first major solo show in the United Kingdom and the announcement of global representation by London’s Gallery FUMI , Casey McCafferty unveils a new body of work in carved wood and stone, in an exhibition called Head Hand Foot , that will be on display through June 29th, 2024. Photography courtesy of Gallery FUMI.

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Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize

Creative Boom

American photographer Keisha Scarville has today been awarded the coveted new Saltzman Prize, an arts award presented in cooperation with the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) and PHOTOFAIRS New York. Her work has previously been exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, and ICA Philadelphia.

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Anatomical Paintings by Lily Mixe Connect Flora and Fauna Through Textured Motifs

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All images © Lily Mixe, courtesy of Saatchi Gallery, shared with permission. In The Butterfly Effect , French artist Lily Mixe illustrates the textured patterns of beetles, shells, cells, and birds through stark black and white. “Curious Collection” (2022), acrylic paint on wooden box assemblage, 33 x 31.5 centimeters.

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