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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

Creative Boom

Whether at home or abroad, it'll allow you to travel somewhere new, immerse yourself in new ideas and fresh creativity, and recharge your imagination in the process. January Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival – China, 5 Jan-early March Ever been to an ice sculpture festival? So why not act now?

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A French “Truck Museum” Travels the World in Style

Azure Magazine

Like the traveling troubadours of Medieval Europe peddling music and poetry, the MuMo x Centre Pompidou Truck Museum is bringing exhibitions to far-reaching villages in rural France and far beyond, making contemporary art more accessible to those in remote communities. In a secluded small town, even more so. So what if the art came to you?

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Top 10 of 2023: Our Favourite Public Spaces

Azure Magazine

From landscapes that address climate change (while welcoming cultural and social life) to a rich variety of parks, plazas and buildings — and even infrastructure projects — that engage the urban realm, the best public spaces are a celebration of community and collective spirit.

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Nigerian artist Samson Bakare's time-travelling art reimagines Africa's past in an intriguing way

Creative Boom

As he prepares to exhibit 15 brand-new works – including paintings, sculptures and pictorial installations – at Dorothy Circus London, we chatted with Samson to learn more about his unique approach to art. How he approaches a specific painting will depend a lot on his state of mind at the time. "At

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Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy Extend a Monumental Welcome to Travelers Transiting Through O’Hare

Colossal

“‘REACH’ is a connection point and large-scale gesture that inspires us to come together,” says Thomas, whose sculptures have often incorporated hands and arms in symbolic positons such as embraces, the Black Power fist, or hands-up defensive signals that evoke historical events and activism.

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The Summer of Water Sculpture: Jeppe Hein and Cristina Iglesias

Design Milk

New York City is currently hosting two surprising public artworks that use water to reveal and engage the people, surroundings, and history of New York. The work features five bronze sculptures that represent imagined sections rocks and roots, with real flowing water. Jeppe Hein’s Changing Spaces at Rockefeller Center. .”

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F5: Scott Henderson Talks Powerful Graphic Images, Travel + More

Design Milk

Sculpture. I love the sculptures of Tony Cragg. Abstract sculpture is void of any functional and representational qualities – so why then does it even need to look right? ” Tulip Public Seating by Tulpi. I love this tulip-shaped public seating in the Netherlands by the Dutch company Tulpi. Scott Henderson.

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