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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

David Nott Brings Textured Abstraction to the Screen with LG Gallery+

David Nott's textile works blend sculpture, design, and craft, with his 'Color Riddle' series emphasizing color, shape, and texture.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 days ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 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
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fromArtforum
4 days ago

Bettina's Obsessive Geometries: The Search for a Fourth Dimension

Bettina's artistic journey includes innovative photography and sculptures, showcasing organic forms and a retreat from public life as her productivity increased.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
6 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.
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
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fromIrish Independent
5 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.
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fromDesign Milk
2 days ago

OUTSIDERS Investigates the Space Between Society and Solitude

Modern design challenges conventional public seating to enhance social interaction and presence in urban spaces.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

Flipmod / Ambit Narrative Design (A.N.D)

Flipmod is a modular shading system designed for public spaces in subtropical cities, promoting climate responsiveness and public engagement.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

Emily Drew Miller's art reflects the disconnection felt among Jewish people through her matzah-inspired prints.
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.
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fromArtforum
3 days ago

Melvin Edwards, Sculptor of Searing "Lynch Fragments," Dies at 88

Melvin Edwards, a sculptor known for exploring racial violence and Black experiences, passed away at 88, leaving a legacy of impactful art.
#architecture
fromArchDaily
4 days ago
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Unbearable Lightness of Being Installation / Saiqa Iqbal Meghna and Suvro Sovon Chowdhury

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fromArchDaily
4 days ago

Unbearable Lightness of Being Installation / Saiqa Iqbal Meghna and Suvro Sovon Chowdhury

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a lightweight architectural installation that creates adaptable gathering spaces in Dhaka's urban environment.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Required Reading

Calida Rawles' art explores the duality of water as both healing and destructive within the Black diaspora's history.
#contemporary-art
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fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

The Embellished, the Transient, and the Critical Installation / Alsar Atelier

During the pandemic, urban spaces transformed dramatically as animals reclaimed cities and streets became vibrant communal areas filled with greenery and public life.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 days ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
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fromArtforum
4 days ago

How Vision Becomes Ideology: On Wadysaw Strzeminski's Theory of Seeing

Władysław Strzemiński's 'Teoria widzenia' examines the interplay of vision, art, and socio-political conditions from prehistory to modernity.
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fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is reviving Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance 'Pelican' for the first time in 60 years at a Brooklyn event.
Miscellaneous
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

anamorphic installation by thomas medicus rotates into four shifting hand images

Coopparatus is a mechanical anamorphic installation that reveals four hand images sequentially through 90-degree rotations of a glass-strip cube, fragmenting between legible states to examine perception as an active, conditional process.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Drawn by Hand: Geometral's Site-Specific Architecture

Géométral is an architectural practice defined by design strategies that are linked to the landscape, which it treats as a primary determinant of form. The studio approaches each project as a small universe that combines program, atmosphere, and spatial narratives. Rather than a single signature style, they focus on crafting moods and situations tailored to each context and user.
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fromTime Out New York
1 month ago

A sweeping, 140-foot multimedia installation is turning Lincoln Center into a portrait of NYC

Josh S. Rose's Lincoln Center Arrival Tableau is a 140-foot multimedia installation capturing performers, students, and audiences across Lincoln Center's westside campus, celebrating New York's performing arts community.
Philosophy
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month 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.
Science
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Recursive Resemblance

Generative AI models risk collapse when trained on their own output, causing statistical degradation and improbable sequences that compound approximation errors over time.
Arts
fromGothamist
5 days ago

A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn

Alex Aliume's Brooklyn studio attracts thousands of visitors with his unique glow-in-the-dark art and immersive experiences.
Typography
fromArtforum
1 month ago

False/Positive

Carol Bove's folded steel sculptures create optical illusions where viewers perceive soft, pliable materials despite the sculptures being made of hard steel, with the illusion shifting as one moves around the work.
#robert-therrien
Miscellaneous
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

David Salle integrates AI-generated imagery with traditional painting techniques, using machine learning models trained on his own work as new visual "givens" to respond to creatively.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Smiljan Radic: Material Explorations Between Ephemerality and Permanence

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić creates buildings that blend ancient monumentality with provisional fragility, combining diverse materials in experimental ways that challenge conventional architectural categorization.
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fromArtforum
1 week ago

What's Old Is New Again: Surrealists and Robots at the Newer New Museum

The New Museum's grand reopening featured a thematic exhibition exploring utopian and dystopian societies, showcasing historical works alongside contemporary art.
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fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

LR Vandy Transforms Sculpture Park with Monumental Fiber Works

LR Vandy's exhibition 'Rise' explores themes of power, trade, and colonialism through immersive sculptures, primarily using rope as a significant medium.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

'raw geological poetry': how SolidNature interprets stone into an architecture of emotions

SolidNature transforms natural stone from conventional building material into atmospheric, emotionally expressive design medium through craftsmanship, technology, and artistic collaboration.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Marc Fornes' New Sculptural Pavilion Reimagines the Architectural Folly

Marc Fornes creates a contemporary sculptural pavilion in Cary Park that reimagines the 18th-century architectural folly tradition through high-tech digital fabrication and innovative design.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
4 weeks ago

5 Floating Designs That Look Like Photoshop (But They're Real) - Yanko Design

Floating design lifts architectural elements from the ground to create visual lightness, spatial clarity, and refined interventions that balance engineering precision with aesthetic intent.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Six great reads: Mondrian's hidden inspiration, the friendship secret and heat for Heated Rivalry

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. Trump called me down to the Oval Office,' John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland ' The US president's friend Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, is now making deals in the island. Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis explored the reasons behind Trump and Lauder's fixation with Greenland. Read more
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fromThe Architect Elevator
2 months ago

The Mighty Metaphor

The Architect Elevator is a metaphor-in reality, the company leadership may be sitting on the same building floor as you; my car metaphors could fill an entire book; and " Architecture is Selling Options " has become the anchor of many architecture keynotes. So, at least my world of architecture is full of metaphors.
Software development
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

In 'Life Forms,' Janny Baek Imagines a Speculative Landscape

As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own dream logic, one that accepts incongruity and dissonance as necessary to play and experimentation. Marbling hunks of colored clay, coiling bases, and molding a singular material into something new is part of an exploratory practice that embraces transformation and its often strange outcomes.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

playful interactive cone installation reflects viewers' sand art back to them

A circular concrete ring forms a defined boundary, incorporating a landing and three steps that lead into a contained field of refined sand. At the center of this ring rises a tall cone clad in polished mirrored steel. The composition establishes a clear geometric contrast between the horizontal plane of sand and the vertical reflective surface.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

glazed color bands rise as sculptural tower in gerhard richter's alpine installation

Presented by the Luma Foundation in Engadin, Switzerland, as part of Elevation 1049, STRIP TOWER (962) brings Gerhard Richter's long-running investigations into the Alpine landscape, extending his practice beyond the canvas and into three-dimensional space. On view until the spring of 2029, the work draws from the methodology of his Strip Paintings, where a single painted gesture is subjected to successive acts of photographing, scanning, digital slicing, and stretching.
Photography
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago

Limited Space.

The Limited Space' series is built around the idea of a figure that has outgrown its space. Through exaggerated proportions and sculptural silhouettes, the body appears too large for the environment that continues to constrain it. Architectural elements and imposed barriers function as abstract limits, pressing against the figure and revealing tension through scale, weight, and posture rather than narrative.
Fashion & style
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

Union of Opposites

Originally from Dallas and now based in New York City, I approach photography as an exercise in atmosphere, trust, and control. Trained in the discipline of film and later in fashion photography, I work with both natural and artificial light to construct images that feel cinematic and psychologically charged. Moving fluidly between studio and location, I transform spaces into environments that heighten mood and presence.
Fashion & style
Arts
fromwww.jezebel.com
4 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.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove's Brilliance

Carol Bove transforms industrial construction materials into evocative sculptural forms that defy material expectations and reveal unexpected emotional resonance.
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.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

Self-taught artists across the U.S. create distinctive vernacular environments using salvaged and found materials, driven by spiritual fervor and personal vision.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Playful Patterns Emerge from Kinetic Systems in Pinaffo & Pluvinage's Vibrant Installations

Pinaffo & Pluvinage create interactive kinetic sculptures using colored wood, electronics, and textiles that invite public participation across various settings.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

patterned tiles extend from curved walls to furniture in layered retail exhibition booth

Accessible from three sides, the booth is shaped by approach and visibility rather than a single frontal orientation. The primary entry is marked by an angled portal set back from the site edge, establishing a layered visual field rather than an immediate overview. From this offset threshold, overlapping planes of tiles, textures, and color unfold gradually, encouraging movement through depth rather than direct access.
Design
Arts
from48 hills
1 month ago

A zap of Latine abstraction in 'Rebel Forms' - 48 hills

Ana Teresa Fernández's Coatl physically and conceptually bridges walls, using metallic glyphs and neon elements to evoke Aztec serpent imagery, nostalgia, and abstraction.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

'dan flavin: grids' floods NYC's david zwirner gallery with fluorescent color

The exhibition gathers several grid installations first developed in 1976, presented here through careful re-creations of historic works. Installed directly into corners, the luminous sculptures become a fixed part of the gallery as walls, ceilings, and floors receive light as an active condition. The atmosphere of each room shifts, all while remaining unified by the straightforward presence of the simple fluorescent fixtures.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Decomposition as Expression: Disassembled Axonometry as Design Tool

In the translation of three-dimensional reality onto a two-dimensional plane, axonometry stands as one of the graphic systems of representation that form the foundation of the language used by architecture and design professionals. Alongside plans, sections, and elevations, its exploded views often stand out for their ability to study the multiple layers that compose a project. Although axonometry is also employed in other disciplines such as
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fromHypebeast
1 month ago

Anish Kapoor Presents New 'Mirror Works' in NYC

Anish Kapoor's polished stainless-steel mirror sculptures distort space and perception, using reflective surfaces, voids, and color to create immersive, disorienting spatial experiences.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

'Abstract Expressionists: The Women' Rewrites a Male-Dominated Canon

In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe's first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can't make the trip to the Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, or FAMM), the American Federation of the Arts (AFA) has arranged the next best thing: a blockbuster touring exhibition about women artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, featuring some of the highlights of the FAMM collection.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Futurist Vision of Pierre Huyghe Circles Back to Old Tropes

Pierre Huyghe's Liminals presents a faceless, vulnerable white woman within AI-driven bio-tech environments, producing pronounced cognitive dissonance despite ambitious institutional framing.
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.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson

Diane Simpson creates sculptures that combine isometric projection with three-dimensional forms, producing objects that appear inconsistent from different viewpoints.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Paints Smoky Lounges And Quiet Strangers, Letting Halffinished Details Turn Viewers Into Coauthors Of The Scene

A wide-ranging visual roundup showcases creative reinterpretations, vintage design, activist art, photography, illustration, and humorous cultural works spanning contemporary and historical styles.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Mystery Is Embedded in Julia Fish's Architectural Art

Julia Fish's work visualizes geometry, architecture, wood grain, prismatic light, and musical structures through focused observational drawings and mixed-media pieces.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Artist Sarah Sze: A work of art is finished when everything teeters'

Sarah Sze’s Gagosian Beverly Hills exhibition uses 13 works—large, intricate paintings and video installations—to create immersive, disorienting landscapes reflecting an image‑saturated, unstable contemporary world.
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.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A Surprisingly Enjoyable Show About Critical Theory

Echo Delay Reverb examines French critical theory's influence on American art, highlighting Francophone thinkers and artworks addressing labor, incarceration, materiality, and formal contrasts.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Louise Bourgeois's Art Can Still Enthrall

Louise Bourgeois's late abstractions reveal surprising emotional intensity through kinetic installations, intimate objects, and obsessive repetition.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Luftwerk Transforms Paint and Aluminum into Radiant Explorations of Sunlight

Topped with a roof shaped like a crabshell, Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a sanctuary amid the French mountainside. The 1955 construction rests atop a hill in Ronchamp, standing unobstructed by the otherwise forested inclines. As the sun rises and falls, light filters in through the mélange of rectangular windows tinted to cast streams of color around the space. The stained glass apertures of Le Corbusier's modernist chapel are a clear reference point for Luftwerk's "Open Frame."
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Painted LEGO Bricks Appear to Move and Vibrate in Katherine Duclos' Assemblages

Starting with the inherently gridded layouts of LEGO baseplates, Katherine Duclos creates vibrant, undulating compositions of pastels and gradients. The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures to achieve dynamic compositions that appear almost kinetic, adding her own effects with paint. The impression of movement, paired with the tactility of the toy pieces, transforms a familiar object we typically associate with childlike play into a elegant assemblages cradled in wood panels.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Michelle Segre's Impermanent Worlds

Michelle Segre's Nebula collapses sculpture and painting through unconventional, perishable materials, challenging permanence while requiring close, 360-degree engagement.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

constellation of glass and dancing tower shape mona hatoum's fondazione prada exhibition

Mona Hatoum’s Cisterna installation at Fondazione Prada uses large-scale glass and metal works to explore interconnectedness, entrapment, and borderless spatial experience.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

These 10 cute sculptures have New York art lovers 'in the Pink'

Ten pink 'Mr. Pink' sculptures sit across nine Flatiron and NoMad locations as a public art installation embodying 'cuteism' and human vulnerability.
Arts
fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
2 months ago

Art / Tech: Postmodern Cultural Incubator critiques technology with art

A six-to-eight-month Cultural Incubator fosters anti-disciplinary collaboration, merging art and technology to critique current tech deployment and broaden who benefits from technological innovation.
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