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Fri, 2025-03-14 14:30

Through Knotted Installations, Windy Chien Reinterprets the Hitching Post

Since the 1800s, hitching posts have shaped a history anchored in utility and community. Scattered throughout towns and outside common areas, the sturdy objects offered a secure point to tie down horses, especially during social events or gatherings. San Francisco-based artist Windy Chien reinterprets this functional object in her ongoing Hitching Post series...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2025-03-14 10:45

This April, Thousands of Kites will Paint the Sky for an International Festival of Flight

For 16 days this spring, an international kite festival will soar above the beaches of Cervia. Artenvento returns to northern Italy from April 19 to May 4 with more than 200 participants from 50 countries and five continents...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-03-13 14:43

Sparse Brushstrokes Give Rise to Thick Impasto in Jose Lerma’s Minimal Portraits

When Jose Lerma encountered “Reception of the Grand Condé by Louis XIV” by Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, he found himself drawn to the figures tucked far behind the crowd. Known for his meticulous realism, Gérôme rendered these small characters with minimal brushstrokes, a decision that has influenced Lerma’s work for more than a decade...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-03-13 09:06

Melissa Calderón Preserves Neighborhood Memories in Bold Textured Thread

On expanses of beige linen, Melissa Calderón immortalizes pockets of a neighborhood or domestic space. Combining imagery from her childhood in the Bronx with her family’s native Puerto Rico, the artist translates familiar landscapes and sights into vivid embroideries, preserving her memories in thread. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-03-12 18:02

Keita Morimoto Lingers in the Artificial Light of Urban Nights

Cities are constantly in flux, but Keita Morimoto (previously) invites us to linger in their transitions a little longer. The artist renders corner stores, vending machines, and lampposts that illuminate spaces that might otherwise go unnoticed. Either unoccupied or inhabited by just one or two people, Morimoto’s scenes are dimly lit but not eerie and invoke the environments most of us engage with for just a moment...
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Wed, 2025-03-12 12:00

In ‘KAUANI,’ Indigenous Mexican Flora Flourishes in Glowing Lanterns

In Nahuatl, an Aztec language indigenous to Mesoamerica still spoken by more than a million people throughout Mexico, kauani means “to flourish.” Designers Inés Quezada and Inés Llasera, co-founders of Tornasol Studio, conceived of a series of luminaires inspired by native flora in celebration of the region’s rich botanic diversity...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-03-12 09:41

Regal Portraits Evoke Myth and Power in Simone Elizabeth Saunders’ Hand-Tufted Textiles

Emblazoned with vibrant patterns and words like “TRUTH” and “LOVE,” Simone Elizabeth Saunders explores Black identity in relation to kinship, power, and survival. Her hand-tufted textiles (previously) merge cultural narratives and history with mythology, nostalgia, and personal experiences. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2025-03-11 17:14

Lauded Dutch Golden Age Painter Rachel Ruysch Gets Her First Major Survey in the U.S.

Many of us are familiar with titans of the Dutch Golden Age like Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and more. Yet fewer of us have probably heard of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), renowned during her lifetime for her original style but under-acknowledged through the centuries in the canon of Western art history...
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Tue, 2025-03-11 13:14

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush Portraits Wrap Common Birds in Decadent Patterns

Beauty and nature’s resilience are at the core of Vasilisa Romanenko’s work. The Connecticut-based artist paints faithful depictions of common yet dignified birds amid clusters of fruits and flowers, exploring the power of opulence in times of upheaval...
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Tue, 2025-03-11 09:56

Landscapes, Customs, and Culture Shape the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards

Nearly half a million images were submitted to this year’s Sony World Photography Awards, organized by the World Photography Organisation, marking another highly competitive, awe-inspiring selection of moments captured across the globe. Now in its 18th year, more than 419,000 contributions rolled in from more than 200 countries...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-03-10 12:18

Uneasy Interactions Signify a Response to Tragedy in Jinjoo Jo’s Blue Illustrations

Treading the boundary between cuteness and discomfort—innocence and harm—South Korean artist Jinjoo Jo’s illustrations express the tenuous relationship humans conjure with nature and a personal response to a widely publicized tragedy...
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Mon, 2025-03-10 09:11

Intricate Postage Stamp Tattoos by Ash Aurich Are an Ode to Art History

As the saying goes, if one knows very little about something, their knowledge could fit on the back of a postage stamp. But for tattoo artist Ash Aurich, the minuscule format provides a readymade canvas and frame ripe for experimentation, intrigue, and beauty...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-03-10 05:00

Rui Sasaki Encases Spectral Flowers in Intimate Glass Assemblages

“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his 1943 novella The Little Prince, a sentiment that drives Rui Sasaki’s work. From what the artist (previously) describes as a “mysterious and ambiguous material,” botanicals appear to float in frozen cubes of water...
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Arts and Crafts
Sat, 2025-03-08 06:00

A Trio of Stop-Motion Shorts Utilize a Cumbersome 3D-Printing Technique

Already more cumbersome than digital techniques, stop-motion animation typically involves sets and characters designed to make subtle movements so that filmmakers can capture minute shifts frame by frame. Directors Jack Cunningham and Nicolas Ménard, of Eeastend Western, have chosen the even more involved process of replacement animation for their recent project...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2025-03-07 13:19

Through LEGO Compositions, Katherine Duclos Grounds Chaos in Color

Katherine Duclos begins each artwork with a color palette and no plan. Placing modular LEGO bricks one by one, the Vancouver-based artist intuitively builds each dense composition, commencing a repetitive process in which she introduces paint before rearranging again...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2025-03-07 10:21

David Surman’s Gestural Paintings Question How We Understand Animal Emotion

Now based in London, David Surman was raised in a small coastal village in southwest England. The bucolic scenery and access to animals left an indelible impact on the artist, who plumbs his memory and draws on a vast array of art historical references in his paintings...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-03-06 16:26

‘The Praise House’ Shares the Story of a Contemplative Installation on an Alabama Plantation

On the site of the former Scott’s Grove Baptist Church, artist Tony M. Bingham has constructed a monumental work of contemplation and reflection. Two wood-paneled walls stand parallel in the serene clearing with stained glass windows, a Sylacauga marble floor, and a steel cutout depicting members who once worshiped on its grounds...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-03-06 08:10

Folk Traditions, Quotidian Items, and Spiritual Symbolism Merge in Haegue Yang’s Sensory Sculptures

“Abstraction is not a…simplified way of thinking: it’s a leap—a leap into a dimension that cannot otherwise be understood,” says Haegue Yang, whose multimedia installations and sculptures explore a wide array of material associations, immersing the senses. Series such as Light Sculptures and Sonic Sculptures defy genres, often combining ready-made, mass-produced items with industrially created substances...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-03-05 16:43

Nick Brandt’s Photos Stress the Resilience of Syrian Refugees in the Face of the Climate Crisis

In the Jordanian desert, Syrian families displaced by war huddle atop stacks of boxes like stalwart islands in a dry and unforgiving landscape. Photographer Nick Brandt captures children, siblings, and entire families who stand together and climb skyward like monuments or promontories—what the artist describes as “pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-03-05 15:01

From Porcelain Buttercream to Bruises, Jessica Stoller Examines the Gendered Body

The early 1780s produced a medical training tool that today seems unusually macabre and unsettling: the Anatomical Venus. A waxen model with real human hair and strings of pearls around her neck, the reclined figure appeared incredibly realistic, although pulling back the plate on its abdomen or chest revealed a series of internal organs and systems. ..
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DIY Ideas

Arts and Crafts

Through Knotted Installations, Windy Chien Reinterprets the Hitching Post

This April, Thousands of Kites will Paint the Sky for an International Festival of Flight

Sparse Brushstrokes Give Rise to Thick Impasto in Jose Lerma’s Minimal Portraits

Melissa Calderón Preserves Neighborhood Memories in Bold Textured Thread

Keita Morimoto Lingers in the Artificial Light of Urban Nights

In ‘KAUANI,’ Indigenous Mexican Flora Flourishes in Glowing Lanterns

Regal Portraits Evoke Myth and Power in Simone Elizabeth Saunders’ Hand-Tufted Textiles

Lauded Dutch Golden Age Painter Rachel Ruysch Gets Her First Major Survey in the U.S.

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush Portraits Wrap Common Birds in Decadent Patterns

Landscapes, Customs, and Culture Shape the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards

Uneasy Interactions Signify a Response to Tragedy in Jinjoo Jo’s Blue Illustrations

Intricate Postage Stamp Tattoos by Ash Aurich Are an Ode to Art History

Rui Sasaki Encases Spectral Flowers in Intimate Glass Assemblages

A Trio of Stop-Motion Shorts Utilize a Cumbersome 3D-Printing Technique

Through LEGO Compositions, Katherine Duclos Grounds Chaos in Color

David Surman’s Gestural Paintings Question How We Understand Animal Emotion

‘The Praise House’ Shares the Story of a Contemplative Installation on an Alabama Plantation

Folk Traditions, Quotidian Items, and Spiritual Symbolism Merge in Haegue Yang’s Sensory Sculptures

Nick Brandt’s Photos Stress the Resilience of Syrian Refugees in the Face of the Climate Crisis

From Porcelain Buttercream to Bruises, Jessica Stoller Examines the Gendered Body

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