Art, design, and visual culture

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Petah Coyne’s Wax Sculptures and Installations Vacillate Between Beauty and Monstrosity

Each week, Petah Coyne reads two or three books. Along with film and the natural world, literature has had a profound impact on the artist throughout her decades-long career, as she references Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Zelda Fitzgerald, and numerous other women in her works. Coyne gravitates toward texts rooted in feminist principles, which she then puts into conversation and filters through large-scale sculptures and installations...
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Tavares Strachan’s ‘There Is Light Somewhere’ Illuminates the Past and Envisions Hope for the Future

From the 14-meter-long “Black Star,” a ship docked in an elevated pool, to a series of immersive, luminescent installations, Tavares Strachan highlights hidden histories at the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre. The artist’s large-scale survey, There Is Light Somewhere, explores his continuing interest in history and its intersections with science, exploration, and culture...
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Delicate Vessels Emerge from Garden-Grown Materials in Alice Fox’s Woven Sculptures

Limpets, the cone-shaped sea snails we see attached to boulders along salty shorelines, can live between 10 and 20 years, never straying too far from home. They always return to the same spot, gradually wearing a perfectly-sized ring in the surface of the rock, known as home scars. Eventually, empty shells wash up along the coast, and for Alice Fox, the dainty specimens provide one of many canvases for delicately woven pieces (previously)...
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Todd Antony Chronicles the ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’ Summiting the Highest Peak in the Americas

For generations, Indigenous Bolivian women were not allowed to walk freely in the wealthy or central parts of the nation’s capital, La Paz, where they were considered lower-class and expected to stay at home or work in servitude. More recently, this attitude has changed as Aymara and Quechua women have taken back their rights, expressing themselves confidently through characteristically tall bowler hats, long braids, and bright shawls, skirts, and petticoats...
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The Forthcoming ‘Racing for Thunder’ Chronicles Rammellzee’s Vibrant and Multi-Hyphenate Artistic Career

In the 1970s and 1980s, a ride on the New York City subway looked a lot different than it does today, famously coated in graffiti inside and out. One figure of the era’s art scene who has gained posthumous attention during the past few years is the creative polymath Rammellzee (1960-2010), whose paintings, sculptures, and performances deployed and deconstructed language at a time when novel digital technologies were just beginning to emerge...
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A Concave ‘Scoop’ Out of a New Building in London Frames a Historic Nearby Window

From an office building in Southwark, London, an innovative expansion emerges in white glazed brick. Architecture firm Corstorphine & Wright conceived of “The Scoop,” a contemporary twist on a historic building in the Union Street Conservation Area, to modernize an existing structure and recognize its past. About 500 meters from the River Thames and centered on Union Street and Southwark Bridge Road, the quarter consists of predominantly 19th-century industrial warehousing, commercial spaces, and ecclesiastical structures...
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Share the Sky with Someone Far Away with These Cyanometer and Sunset Postcards

While exploring the Alpine region around Mont Blanc in 1789, the Swiss physicist and mountain climber Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) conceived of a tool to measure the blueness of the sky. He developed a round instrument dubbed a cyanometer with 53 shades dyed from Prussian blue he could hold up and compare to the atmosphere above. Saussure correctly predicted that the color correlated with the amount of water present, handy information for someone intending to scale a mountain...
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Frank Deschandol’s Photos Uncover the Some of the World’s Most Elusive Insects and Arthropods

French photographer Frank Deschandol has held a lens up to wildlife for the last three decades. Journeying to opposite corners of the world in search of remarkable species, Deschandol’s main goal is to highlight the existence of rare and little-known creatures for others to enjoy. “I’m above all a naturalist who came logically to photography, not the other way around,” he explains. “I’ve always had a strong connection with nature, and I couldn’t live without traveling and discovering new places.”..
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Delicately Carved Flora and Fauna by Efrain Almeida Recreate a Contemplative Brazilian Garden

In O Jardim, Efrain Almeida cultivates the memories of his parents’ home in the backlands of Ceará, Brazil. Carved wooden creatures populate the gallery at Oscar Niemeyer Museum, appearing as if they could buzz and flutter across the space. Comprising about 40 sculptures, paintings, and embroideries, the exhibition reinterprets the intimate, contemplative garden Almeida enjoyed as a child...
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