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Mon, 2024-11-18 16:25

Swing Through the World’s Most Spectacular Artist-Designed Playgrounds

David Hockney famously said that “people tend to forget that play is serious,” but for the artists and designers behind some of the world’s most visionary parks and museums, recreation has never been a trivial matter...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-18 11:00

RISD Pre-Collegiate Programs Are Now Enrolling for Summer 2025

At Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Pre-College, rising high school juniors and seniors can experience life as a RISD student and work alongside hundreds of other creative, highly motivated students who will inspire them to push their limits and produce their best work. They will follow a college-level curriculum inspired by the RISD first-year experience with day-long studio classes, visits to the Nature Lab and RISD Museum, critiques, and projects that will forever shape how they approach art and design.

Outside the studio, students can participate in activities and events on and off campus. Summer 2025 runs from June 28 through August 2...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-18 08:38

Celestial Forms Erupt and Tumble in Lauren Fensterstock’s Jewel-Encrusted Sculptures

Like crystallized meteors or mysterious terrestrial phenomena, Lauren Fensterstock’s jewel-encrusted sculptures (previously) reflect the artist’s interest in sacred symbols of the universe. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Sun, 2024-11-17 14:30

Clementine Keith-Roach Unearths Ancient Vessels for Her Motherly Sculptures

From her studio in Dorset, Clementine Keith-Roach sculpts expressive, bodily forms that appear as if plucked from an ancient cavern or soot-filled cellar...
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Arts and Crafts
Sat, 2024-11-16 08:57

Lush Growths and Classical Architecture Converge in Eva Jospin’s Meticulous Sculptures

Rather than position herself as an observer of landscapes, Eva Jospin imagines humans and their environments as one. The Parisian artist carves intricate forests and stately architecture subsumed by vines and craggy cliffs all from humble cardboard, accentuating the corrugated textures to add depth and intrigue...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-15 09:40

‘Return to Hairy Hill’ Hauntingly Renders Family Lore in Black-and-White Animation

In an isolated home in the tiny, prairie hamlet of Hairy Hill, Alberta, a young girl named Ethel lives with her three younger siblings. She carries the burden of caregiver as the children navigate a dysfunctional relationship with their mother, who cryptically transforms into a bird and flies away. Ethel is then faced with sustaining their livelihood on her own...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-14 10:02

Marilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo Tapestries

What does Intel’s Pentium computer chip have in common with Navajo textiles? More than you might think...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-14 05:00

A Samurai-Inspired Backpack Elevates Leather Scraps to a Bag Befitting a Warrior

In Japan, randoseru are small, high-quality backpacks, typically made of leather, designed to withstand years of use by school children. Manufacturer Murase Kabanko, for one, departed from its typical offerings with a highly detailed nod to a different tradition altogether: samurai...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-13 14:30

Laura Kramer’s Glass Sculptures Intersect Aesthetics and Archaeology

Material culture is an important aspect of understanding past and present histories. Used in anthropology and archaeology, the concept refers to the the cultural significance an object may hold. Whether it be tools, religious articles, clothing, or even art, physical items have always been a reflection of the societies that wield them. Glass artist Laura Kramer is driven by this phenomenon...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-13 11:30

Imagination and Introspection Suffuse Hans Op de Beeck’s Immersive ‘Whispered Tales’

In his characteristically gray, monochrome palette, Hans Op de Beeck’s current solo exhibition Whispered Tales at Templon fashions enigmatic narratives from lifelike silhouettes. The immersive, sprawling presentation brings together a mix of new and previous work, inviting viewers into an atmospheric, introspective space...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-13 09:02

Cosmic Birds Soar Through New York City Subway Stations in Fred Tomaselli’s New Mosaics

Known for his large-scale, collaged resin paintings and ongoing series of reimagined front pages of The New York Times, Fred Tomaselli is captivated by what he describes as the “friction” between beauty and ugliness or internal and external forces. He often observes interactions between humanity and nature through rhythmic patterns and vibrant colors...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-12 14:30

Empowering and Protective Bodies Merge in Laura Berger’s Metaphysical Paintings

In complementary shades of blue and orange or pink and green, Laura Berger’s oil paintings (previously) meld embracing figures with botanicals, landscapes, and celestial phenomena. Women lounge comfortably in a steam bath or walk across an expanse of dunes, often rendered lightly transparent as if floating over or absorbing their surroundings...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-12 11:00

Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites

Where do jets go when they no longer fly? What happens to shipping containers when they aren’t useful anymore for cargo? The answer is invisible to most of us, but for Cássio Vasconcellos, abandoned trains, planes, and automobiles are far from forgotten...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-12 06:50

A Daily Stop-Motion Animation Flows Through 10,946 Post-It Musings

For one year, Los Angeles-based animator Daren Jannace would sketch 30 tiny drawings on standard yellow Post-It notes. Illustrating colorful squiggly lines, blob-like characters, and the occasional text, each square canvas became part of a larger stop-motion storyline called “10,946.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-11 05:21

Denis Cherim’s Photos Capture the Coincidental Charisma of Daily Scenes

Light, shadows, and linear perspective are just a few of the tricks up photographer Denis Cherim’s sleeve as he captures surprising, well-timed, and occasionally ironic glimpses of daily life (previously). “I seek answers in places hidden in plain sight,” the Madrid-based artist says in a statement. “I feel curiosity about everyday objects with secret desires to be the main character.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-08 15:23

‘Crafted Kinship’ Unravels the Creative Practices of 60 Carribbean Artists, Designers, and Makers

A new book by Malene Barnett celebrates more than 60 artists, designers, and craftspeople whose work has been shaped by their Caribbean roots.

Published by Artisan, Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers peers into a range of multi-faceted practices influenced by the diaspora. Whether drawing on connections to the land and memory or speaking to colonial histories and African origins, each creative shares insight into their practices, histories, and communities through insightful interviews...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-08 09:11

Metaphysical Landscapes by Eliot Greenwald Illuminate the Mutuality of All Life

For Eliot Greenwald, humankind and the landscapes we occupy are essentially one in the same. Cycles of life, death, and rebirth may diverge from being to being, but the artist considers all existence to be fundamentally interconnected and substantially the same...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-07 14:58

Pigeons Get Pretty in This Historic, Illustrated Profile of Fancy Breeds

Dubbed “rats of the skies,” urban pigeons are often viewed as a nuisance today, but these wily birds are in fact feral descendants of esteemed domesticated ancestors. Documented in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform, pigeons have been historically valued as food, holy symbols, pets, and—thanks to a remarkable homing ability—messengers...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-07 09:22

Quentin Garel’s Lifelike Sculptures Transport Us to the ‘Faraway Forest’

Lifelike mammals with sage expressions characterize the sculptures of Quentin Garel (previously). A deer with enormous antlers, an ibex—a type of wild goat—with curving horns, and a beady-eyed donkey are just a few of the creatures in the artist’s current solo exhibition with Galerie LJ, Dans la Forêt Lontaine—or, “in the faraway forest.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-06 13:07

Michael McGrath Summons Symbolism and a Folk Art Style in Expressive Paintings

From fanged cats and all-seeing ravens to anthropomorphized botanicals and disembodied faces, Michael McGrath’s uncanny works nod to the symbol-rich, flat compositions of folk art or “naïve” painting. His mixed-media works combine materials like graphite, oil paint and oil stick, ink, and acrylic on a variety of surfaces, including wood, canvas, and burlap...
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DIY Ideas

Arts and Crafts

Swing Through the World’s Most Spectacular Artist-Designed Playgrounds

RISD Pre-Collegiate Programs Are Now Enrolling for Summer 2025

Celestial Forms Erupt and Tumble in Lauren Fensterstock’s Jewel-Encrusted Sculptures

Clementine Keith-Roach Unearths Ancient Vessels for Her Motherly Sculptures

Lush Growths and Classical Architecture Converge in Eva Jospin’s Meticulous Sculptures

‘Return to Hairy Hill’ Hauntingly Renders Family Lore in Black-and-White Animation

Marilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo Tapestries

A Samurai-Inspired Backpack Elevates Leather Scraps to a Bag Befitting a Warrior

Laura Kramer’s Glass Sculptures Intersect Aesthetics and Archaeology

Imagination and Introspection Suffuse Hans Op de Beeck’s Immersive ‘Whispered Tales’

Cosmic Birds Soar Through New York City Subway Stations in Fred Tomaselli’s New Mosaics

Empowering and Protective Bodies Merge in Laura Berger’s Metaphysical Paintings

Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites

A Daily Stop-Motion Animation Flows Through 10,946 Post-It Musings

Denis Cherim’s Photos Capture the Coincidental Charisma of Daily Scenes

‘Crafted Kinship’ Unravels the Creative Practices of 60 Carribbean Artists, Designers, and Makers

Metaphysical Landscapes by Eliot Greenwald Illuminate the Mutuality of All Life

Pigeons Get Pretty in This Historic, Illustrated Profile of Fancy Breeds

Quentin Garel’s Lifelike Sculptures Transport Us to the ‘Faraway Forest’

Michael McGrath Summons Symbolism and a Folk Art Style in Expressive Paintings

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