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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago

how lachlan turczan reshapes matter by bending light and water in atmospheric installations

Lachlan Turczan's practice sits in the space between physics, optics, and environmental art, as he works with lasers, water, mist, and custom-built lenses to produce sculptures made entirely from light.
Berlin music
#art
Arts
fromIrish Independent
3 days ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 days ago

Blood Flower Bloom: A Stunning Exploration of Resilience and Beauty in the Heart of Winter - KALTBLUT Magazine

Performance artist Jon Darc's movements unfold like nature's hidden gem, the Queen of the Night flower, serving as a powerful metaphor for emergence in inhospitable environments.
Berlin
#photography
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago
Photography

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago
Photography

In A World Where All Silver is Gold

Silver-coated bodies shine as untouchable armour while revealing underlying fragility, questioning uniform perfection and what remains valuable when all surfaces glitter alike.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Photography

The Hidden Meaning of Taking Pictures

Photographs personalize fleeting experiences, anchor memory, express values, and reveal the aspirational self by bridging inner experience and the outer world.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

Torbjrn Rdland Touches the Romantic and the Profane

Torbjørn Rødland's photography challenges viewers to embrace ambiguity rather than seek definitive interpretations.
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Architectures of the Gaze: 25 Viewpoints for Experiencing the Landscape

Viewpoints are structures designed for observing the landscape from elevated positions. They act as devices that organize the gaze and establish a direct relationship between the body and the territory.
Philosophy
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
fromVulture
1 week ago

What If Grief Became a Staycation?

In the opening sequence, Laura encounters a paddleboarder clad entirely in black who turns a covered face silently in her direction as he passes by - death as an urban hobbyist.
Berlin music
Arts
fromColossal
1 week ago

Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek's Mysterious Illustrations

Olaf Hajek's work emphasizes connections over differences, blending nature and culture to create dreamlike, ambiguous compositions.
#contemporary-art
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago
Photography

Amazing Vaporwave-esque Reels Where Hesitant Signals Reveal Neon Distortions And Found-footage Glitches At Precise GPS Coordinates

fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago
Photography

Amazing Vaporwave-esque Reels Where Hesitant Signals Reveal Neon Distortions And Found-footage Glitches At Precise GPS Coordinates

Music production
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 weeks ago

William Bleak Unleashes "Ghost Waltz" in a Surge of Industrial and Electronic Power - KALTBLUT Magazine

William Bleak's 'Ghost Waltz' delivers intense industrial and EBM music with immediate impact, pounding percussion, and sharp synth lines designed for high-adrenaline immersion.
Photography
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

Dani Guindo's Dramatic Aerial Photos Reveal the Ghostly Outline of an Icelandic Glacier

Spanish artist Dani Guindo uses drone photography to capture Iceland's glaciers and landscapes, exploring relationships between light, form, and atmosphere through his Terminus series.
#optical-illusions
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Can you solve it? You won't believe these optical illusions!

Olivier Redon creates optical illusions using perspective tricks, with five examples presented as puzzles for viewers to solve.
Philosophy
fromBerlin Art Link
4 weeks ago

Letter from the Editor: Abjection | Berlin Art Link

Abjection describes visceral reactions to undefined things like bodily waste that threaten our stable sense of self and expose our mortality.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Veronica Fernandez Builds an Uneasy Monument to Childhood Imagination

There's this push and pull between feeling unease and discomfort, the nature of the spaces, and why they feel uncomfortable. But there is also tenderness and warmth, people adapting to these spaces and finding ways to make them comfortable.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Amazing AI Nature Scenes by Artist Nafis Khan Where Golden Hours Fade Into Starry Roads

The work features dramatic golden hour sunsets fading into starlit skies, motorbikes on quiet roads under the Milky Way, serene lakes, and coastal horizons with a smooth, filmic quality. The aesthetic blends anime vibes with high-end cinematic mood: soft gradients, starry nights, peaceful waters, and ethereal lighting.
Digital life
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

Victor Vasarely's crumbling Aix legacy to be restored

The longer we wait, the more difficult it will become to remedy the damage. Since 2019, state funding had all but dried up, forcing the foundation to auction works to raise funds to continue the restoration of both the iconic building and its many site-specific works.
Arts
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

50 Historical Photos That Are So Shocking, They're Changing My Perception Of The Entire World

I recently gained a new obsession, and I'm ready to share it with the world: finding and analyzing rare vintage images. A picture speaks a thousand words, and these photographs tell us more about history than a textbook chapter ever could. So even if you think history is boring, I'm well-equipped to change your mind, and give you some delicious food for your brain to chew on today.
History
Arts
fromwww.jezebel.com
3 weeks ago

There's Not Enough Women Beheading Men in Art Anymore

Renaissance art frequently depicted women beheading men in biblical scenes, particularly Judith and Holofernes and Salome with John the Baptist's head, representing a powerful artistic tradition largely absent from contemporary art.
fromHyperallergic
4 weeks ago

Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake

The electronic musical composition draws on field recordings of local wildlife and environmental phenomena, sourced from archival materials along with new recordings made specifically for the installation. By transporting the sounds of the lake's ecosystem into an urban park setting, Eliasson foregrounds the fragile interdependence between human and more-than-human life, rendering audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
Arts
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

three suspended digital screens translate AI imagery into luminous spatial installation

UNFOLD PLANE's spatial installation translates artificial intelligence concepts into an integrated architectural environment using suspended screens, dynamic lighting, and reflective surfaces that respond to visitor movement.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

A wintry mix: 12 reading recommendations to get you through the storm

If you're hunkering down ahead of the big winter storm this weekend, we want to make sure you're well prepared. Yes, with batteries, flashlights, toilet paper, and food but perhaps most importantly with good reading material. We looked back through some recent interviews and Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide, to find snowy suggestions to get you through the storm.
Books
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

As theschool's student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student Nick Dwyer. The incident was an eyebrow-raising illustration of the collective exhaustion with being surrounded by the outputs of generative AI, a fierce debate that has gripped the art world.
Higher education
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

How to Film ICE

Filming federal immigration agents is legal but can provoke dangerous, even lethal, responses; video both documents abuses and can place observers at risk.
#visual-art
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

This animator elevates memory into dusty, eerie vignettes

"I don't trust my imagination very much, so I often create works based on things I've actually experienced," says Hewa. "I want to animate those indescribable states where all sorts of emotions get mixed up together." In these micro-animations (that do well on social media, both because of their quick runtimes and windows into varyingly haunted and serene worlds), Hewa animates women dreaming of other realities, dinner guests locked into a perpetual state of laughing and empty streets lined with crooked houses.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

A Landscape Artist in Winter

The British artist Andy Goldsworthy moved to Penpont, a village in southwest Scotland, in 1986, when he was thirty. The area's initial appeal was twofold. Property was cheap, which meant that Goldsworthy and his wife at the time, Judith Gregson, could acquire an unrenovated stone building that had likely once stored grain. This structure could serve as a workspace and, for a while, as a rough-and-ready home.
Environment
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

I Learned the Right Way to Put Photos on My Wall, and Now I'll Never Go Back

Find, frame, and hang art and photos to dress bare walls using existing pieces, thrifted or purchased prints, appropriate frames, and correct hanging hardware.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Does the temperature affect the sound of snow underfoot?

Snow underfoot produces different sounds that correlate with temperature: squelch near 0°C, crunch above −10°C, and high-pitched squeaks well below −10°C.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

milla novo renders her desert textile installation within a snowy alpine context

The project, titled 'From Desert Sand to Alpine Snow,' centers on twenty hand-knotted fiber panels first commissioned for the Tanweer Festival in 2025. Installed in a 10 by 10 meter steel frame rising six meters high, the work stood directly on desert ground, its saturated colors vibrating against the pale sand and rocky escarpments of Mleiha.
Arts
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Digital Storytelling Landscapes By Prismofpixels, Turning Quiet Streets And Town Squares Into Cinematic Moments Of Color And Light

A curated collection of diverse visual works spanning paintings, photography, design, and historical images across eras, genres, and artistic mediums.
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

MIRORlab Taps into the Emotional Dimensions of Light

MIRORLab's MIROR Collection uses slow 360° rotation and calibrated color moods to create meditative, nature-inspired lighting that reduces digital overstimulation.
Photography
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Where the World is Melting' Documents Communities Amid Indelible Changes in the Arctic

Photographs document the human and environmental impacts of Arctic warming, showing communities, traditions, and landscapes undergoing profound change.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

Crowd-curated liminal photography captures eerie, nostalgic unease in abandoned commercial spaces, reflecting a collective artistic response to late-capitalist decline.
Photography
fromThe Phoblographer
2 months ago

Want to Know Something Crazy? - The Phoblographer

A $25 annual subscription removes banner ads and helps fund staff, servers, and site growth while providing member discounts and perks.
#surrealism
Arts
from48 hills
2 months ago

His suburban idylls teem with the 'uncanny magic of the exceptionally unexceptional' - 48 hills

Jonathan Crow’s American Realist paintings prioritize mood, composition, and color to evoke intuitive, music-like emotional responses that resist simple verbal definition.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Things That Really Matter

Artists and communities mobilize memorials, protests, and cultural expression to resist state violence, political aggression, cultural censorship, and labor suppression.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Szilveszter Mako's Surreal Photographs Reconstruct the Boundaries of Portraiture

Szilveszter Makó 's enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones.
Arts
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Surreal Dreams Reign in Hieu Chau's Digital Illustrations

Hieu Chau creates dense, surreal digital paintings that blend flora, fauna, altered scale, and painterly textures into dreamlike, layered compositions.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Incredible Dark Ritual Imagery Exploring Death, Loneliness And Mythic Gates by Benjamin Malejko

A curated showcase of diverse visual works spanning illustrations, dark concept art, photography winners, humorous designs, reimagined logos, and imaginative digital and portrait art.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

Joanne Greenbaum combines diverse media and mark-making to create cohesive paintings where individual elements retain distinctiveness, blending stillness with accelerating movement.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Scanner Glitch Collages Exploring Emotional Fragmentation and Digital Distortions by Alg Eventual

Alg Eventual is an Ohiobased audio/visual new media artist creating glitch art, digital collages and abstract mixed media works with a reference to the roots of the early 2000s. His works feature scanner experiments, layered textures and titles like Exterior, Interwind, Articulation, Overthinking and Everything leads back to you, blending digital manipulation with tactile, fragmented aesthetics. More: Instagram
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