What’s That Mark on the Wall? A Dryly Humorous Short Film Plunges into One Imagination’s Quest for an Answer
Anderson Wright plunges viewers into one woman’s inventive search for reason and rationality.
The Mark On The Wall” is based on Virginia Woolf’s short story of the same name, which opens with the mysterious line—”Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present year that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall.”— before sinking into a stream-of-consciousness style monologue of speculation and intrigue. More
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Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels
From maple burl, cherry, and ash, Oliver Chalk’s voluminous vessels highlight natural textures while emphasizing alluring patterns and geometry. The Kent-based artist (previously) finds chunks of timber in the countryside around his home, homing in on pieces of trees that have partly decayed, been cut by arborists, or were felled by storms.
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Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels
From maple burl, cherry, and ash, Oliver Chalk’s voluminous vessels highlight natural textures while emphasizing alluring patterns and geometry. The Kent-based artist (previously) finds chunks of timber in the countryside around his home, homing in on pieces of trees that have partly decayed, been cut by arborists, or were felled by storms.
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Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels
From maple burl, cherry, and ash, Oliver Chalk’s voluminous vessels highlight natural textures while emphasizing alluring patterns and geometry. The Kent-based artist (previously) finds chunks of timber in the countryside around his home, homing in on pieces of trees that have partly decayed, been cut by arborists, or were felled by storms.
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Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels
From maple burl, cherry, and ash, Oliver Chalk’s voluminous vessels highlight natural textures while emphasizing alluring patterns and geometry. The Kent-based artist (previously) finds chunks of timber in the countryside around his home, homing in on pieces of trees that have partly decayed, been cut by arborists, or were felled by storms.
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Tiny But Not Timid, Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘Spiders of Paradise’ Show Their True Colors
“The Maratus spiders of Australia are the most colourful, flamboyant, sexy, and charming spiders on the planet,” says Maria Fernanda Cardoso, whose vibrant portraits capture the tiny creatures in remarkable detail. Kicking off a tour throughout Australia, the photographer’s exhibition Spiders of Paradise, organized in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, highlights the arachnids’ incredible diversity.
Maratus are commonly referred to as “peacock spiders” due to the males’ brilliant displays during courtship rituals—and in some cases, combat. More
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Tiny But Not Timid, Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘Spiders of Paradise’ Show Their True Colors
“The Maratus spiders of Australia are the most colourful, flamboyant, sexy, and charming spiders on the planet,” says Maria Fernanda Cardoso, whose vibrant portraits capture the tiny creatures in remarkable detail. Kicking off a tour throughout Australia, the photographer’s exhibition Spiders of Paradise, organized in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, highlights the arachnids’ incredible diversity.
Maratus are commonly referred to as “peacock spiders” due to the males’ brilliant displays during courtship rituals—and in some cases, combat. More
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Choi + Shine Architects Collaborate with Communities Around the Globe to Crochet Monumental Lace Works
Whether working in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Fukuoka City, Japan, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine have found that crochet is a universal language. The pair engage communities around the world in large-scale projects that involve crafting elaborate lace patterns to be fastened to an iron armature. Both delicate and monumental, the finished works emerge from hundreds of hands and even more hours of labor, all bound together by shared making.
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Alex Chinnek’s Public Infrastructure and Tools Twist to Bizarrely Impractical Proportions
Alex Chinneck has the world tied in knots as he distorts everyday tools and infrastructure. Twisting and twining telephone booths, hammers, and lamp posts, the British artist (previously) warps common objects to exaggerated proportions, rendering each almost entirely unusable. Mop handles form perfect bows, a brush constricts so tightly around a canister that blue paint spills out, and a bright red fire extinguisher appears choked for air. Chinneck’s interventions are boldly bizarre and speak to the extraordinary potential of humble objects. More
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Vividly Rendered Birds, Monkeys, and Butterflies Enliven Jason Wheatley’s Dreamy Paintings
“I want people to feel like they have stumbled onto a riddle,” says Jason Wheatley about his dreamy scenes. Melding realistic depictions with fantastical elements, the artist warps the time-honored traditions of still lifes by adding animals and insects to the otherwise inanimate subject matter. His most recent body of work, Language of Birds, places a range of exotic, wild birds in lavish interiors alongside small primates, butterflies, and fish.
Gilman Contemporary, the exhibition presents six oil paintings that reference the iconic style of John James Audubon in precision and vivid detail, while tinged with Wheatley’s whimsy and surrealism. More
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Kaleidoscopic Handles Grow in Biomorphic Shapes from Jessica Thompson-Lee’s Ceramic Mugs
Jessica Thompson-Lee twists the age-old design principle of form following function with her biomorphic ceramics. Evocative of cellular structures, coral, and mycelium networks, handles appear to grow from Thompson-Lee’s mugs, sprawling outward into lattice-like webs that require users to slot their fingers into the amorphous shapes.
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Petah Coyne’s Wax Sculptures and Installations Vacillate Between Beauty and Monstrosity
Each week, Petah Coyne reads two or three books. Along with film and the natural world, literature has had a profound impact on the artist throughout her decades-long career, as she references Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Zelda Fitzgerald, and numerous other women in her works. Coyne gravitates toward texts rooted in feminist principles, which she then puts into conversation and filters through large-scale sculptures and installations.
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Lidiia Marinchuk’s Handmade Toys Are a Joyful Reminder to Imagine and Play
Wide-eyed, boldly-dressed, and keen to play, an exuberant ensemble of characters created by Lidiia Marinchuk nudges us to remember the most precious parts of childhood.
previously) crafts each figure by hand in her Lisbon studio where she operates her online shop, Marli Toy Art. From initial sketches to sewing limbs and painting features, Marinchuk takes a great deal of care and precision as she shapes each character’s likeness and personality, adorning her creations with crocheted bonnets, striped shirts, and fish-shaped brooches. More
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Eiko Ojala Addresses the Complexities of Current Affairs with Layered Compositions
Eiko Ojala’s vivid illustrations (previously) possess a distinctive flair evocative of paper-cut assemblages and textural collage. Working with some of the most prominent publications in today’s media landscape, the artist creates visuals for editorial assignments that focus on a vast scope of current affairs.
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‘Dog Days of Summer’ Celebrates Humanity’s Favorite Companions in Art and Life
We’ve officially entered the hot, sticky part of the year when languid afternoon naps seem inevitable. A sprawling group exhibition at Timothy Taylor is an ode to this sluggish time and the furry companion with which it shares a name.
Dog Days of Summer is a joyful tribute to humanity’s best friend. Interpretations of our favorite four-legged pals are vast and varied, including a vividly patterned couch complete with a tiny, lounging pup by Hilary Pecis and Alex Da Corte’s stylized wooden puzzle with a friendly offering in its paw. More
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Tavares Strachan’s ‘There Is Light Somewhere’ Illuminates the Past and Envisions Hope for the Future
From the 14-meter-long “Black Star,” a ship docked in an elevated pool, to a series of immersive, luminescent installations, Tavares Strachan highlights hidden histories at the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre. The artist’s large-scale survey, There Is Light Somewhere, explores his continuing interest in history and its intersections with science, exploration, and culture.
previously) often taps into the legacy of the portrait bust, drawing on sources ranging from ancient Egypt and Rome to early-modern examples that have typically celebrated wealthy, white European men. More
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Delicate Vessels Emerge from Garden-Grown Materials in Alice Fox’s Woven Sculptures
Limpets, the cone-shaped sea snails we see attached to boulders along salty shorelines, can live between 10 and 20 years, never straying too far from home. They always return to the same spot, gradually wearing a perfectly-sized ring in the surface of the rock, known as home scars. Eventually, empty shells wash up along the coast, and for Alice Fox, the dainty specimens provide one of many canvases for delicately woven pieces (previously). More
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Todd Antony Chronicles the ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’ Summiting the Highest Peak in the Americas
For generations, Indigenous Bolivian women were not allowed to walk freely in the wealthy or central parts of the nation’s capital, La Paz. They were considered lower-class and expected to stay at home or work in servitude. But in recent years, this attitude has changed as Aymara and Quechua women began to take back their rights and express themselves confidently through characteristically tall bowler hats, long braids, and bright shawls, skirts, and petticoats.
cholita has been embraced by Aymara and Quechua women, who have adopted the name as a signal of pride. More
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The Forthcoming ‘Racing for Thunder’ Chronicles Rammellzee’s Vibrant and Multi-Hyphenate Artistic Career
In the 1970s and 1980s, a ride on the New York City subway looked a lot different than it does today, famously coated in graffiti inside and out. One figure who has gained posthumous attention during the past few years is the creative polymath Rammellzee (1960-2010), whose paintings, sculptures, and performances deployed and deconstructed language at a time when novel digital technologies were just beginning to emerge.
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A Collaborative Mural by Vhils and Bordalo II Celebrates the Legacy of Charles Darwin
Published 165 years ago, Charles Darwin’s seminal On the Origin of Species founded our modern understanding of evolutionary biology. He keenly observed wildlife in their native habitats and the similarities between animals around the world—including humans—describing how, through natural selection, populations evolve through a branching pattern over time.
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