Art, design, and visual culture

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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Art, design, and visual culture

Art, design, and visual culture

The best of art, craft, and visual culture since 2010.

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’

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