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#art

"I want to tell this to Hunter, Noah, Lennon and Mom, if they're watching this. Mom, I love you. Hunter, you're my favorite twin. Noah, I do like you. And Lennon, you're a good sister."

Schiaparelli's timeless designs spun glamor out of the avant-garde, showcasing a unique blend of high fashion and artistic expression that continues to inspire.

Soderbergh has become such a prolific, tirelessly resourceful, and altogether uncategorizable filmmaker that you have to wonder why the mechanics of the break-in still inspire him.

Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.

"These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."

"These paintings merge the landscape and the intimacy of windows through the framing of the car, bridging the two realms I've typically explored separately. The car becomes a meditation on transition, on existing simultaneously here and elsewhere."

These water-women are beings of transformation, embodying sensuality, cosmic energy, and the transmission of matrilineal knowledge.

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.

Noemi developed her approach through ongoing dialogue with the artist and her team, as the work itself continued to shift throughout production.

The central nave of Sant'Agostino becomes the spine of the exhibition, as the designer divides the space using white, geometric volumes through freestanding architectural forms that visitors can move through.

I designed the sculpture so that, if it was vandalized, it would still be the same message, because the vandalizers would literally be ending ICE. Art has a lot of impacts on people, and it's a very emotional message and cause.

"In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House," reads a bronze plaque affixed to the work.

"Most people don't stop to observe the crews' work or the infrastructure they uncover," Tentler-Krylov said. "But these unseen things keep the city going."

David Morrison continues his hyperrealistic explorations of flowers, seeds, and plants, capturing the intricacies and alluring textures found throughout nature in lush colored pencil.

Pat Steir was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1938 to cash-strapped parents who'd tried and failed to become artists-yet encouraged her pursuits.

Ali Sbeity painted vibrant portraits and landscapes of his rural hometown in Southern Lebanon, often sharing his works on his Facebook. He participated in numerous local arts exhibitions and created murals for schools in Beirut.

The gym belongs to the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Madison, Alabama. As a way of connecting with the community, the church often allows teams and social groups use of its gym.

The brain processes aesthetic experience like other rewards, such as food or money, indicating that the appreciation of beauty is deeply rooted in our neurological responses.

Hu Yuehua's 'Weaving Nature' is a large-scale composition that intricately combines organic forms with human craft traditions, showcasing a vibrant array of indigo and ochre.

The paint effect was camouflage using mimicry and disruptive patterns to confuse enemy pilots. It's one image in an exhibition of around 45 paintings and posters, plus some letters and documents recording life in wartime London.

The influx of art-world characters had come and gone, albeit in reduced numbers due to the winter storms out east, and they had done their yearly duty of complaining to me about the traffic.

I realized that we don't really think about it this way, but Sodom was a book about war profiteers, that the four men who perpetrated the atrocious, sexual, violent acts of kidnapping people-girls and boys-to bring them to their chateau to do whatever they want with them, they could do that because they were war profiteers within the war of Louis XIV.

"Where this series really started was when I was out painting Seattle's industrial areas, and doing plein air realistic renderings. As I focused more on that industry, I got closer and closer in and it became more abstract-looking at the shapes, colors and lines."

"Art became his antidote to pressure and frustration. An item like this brings us closer to those quiet creative moments away from the world."

Georgia O'Keeffe's work persists in the wider culture because of how well it happens to reproduce in a variety of contexts, including postcards, mugs, and even apparel.