Trees Are the Seeds of Human Creativity in an Uncanny Series by Ethan Murrow
Like the root systems that crawl below the earth’s surface, trees touch innumerable aspects of humanity. From cleaning the air and controlling temperatures to providing food and homes for wildlife, our arboreal neighbors are unequivocally essential to sustaining life.
Ethan Murrow (previously) grows around trees and their gifts. Enigmatic characters extoll the monumental plants along with their fundamental contributions to the arts. Paper and wood appear frequently as materials used in various creative endeavors like books, ornately designed furniture, and cellos, drums, and banjos. More
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Trees Are the Seeds of Human Creativity in an Uncanny Series by Ethan Murrow
Like the root systems that crawl below the earth’s surface, trees touch innumerable aspects of humanity. From cleaning the air and controlling temperatures to providing food and homes for wildlife, our arboreal neighbors are unequivocally essential to sustaining life.
Ethan Murrow (previously) grows around trees and their gifts. Enigmatic characters extoll the monumental plants along with their fundamental contributions to the arts. Paper and wood appear frequently as materials used in various creative endeavors like books, ornately designed furniture, and cellos, drums, and banjos. More
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‘Great Women Sculptors’ Surveys More Than 300 Trailblazing Artists Through 500 Years of History
Celebrating more than 300 trailblazing artists, Great Women Sculptors, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys half a millennium of remarkable work from the Renaissance to today. At more than 340 pages, the volume is organized alphabetically, aligning some of the best-known names from history with artists making waves today.
Yayoi Kusama’s colorful polka dots, Portia Munson’s feminist found-object evocations, and Mária Bartuszová’s ethereal plaster forms are showcased alongside Louise Nevelson’s monumental constructions and Barbara Hepworth’s intimate stone silhouettes. More
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‘Great Women Sculptors’ Surveys More Than 300 Trailblazing Artists Through 500 Years of History
Celebrating more than 300 trailblazing artists, Great Women Sculptors, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys half a millennium of remarkable work from the Renaissance to today. At more than 340 pages, the volume is organized alphabetically, aligning some of the best-known names from history with artists making waves today.
Yayoi Kusama’s colorful polka dots, Portia Munson’s feminist found-object evocations, and Mária Bartuszová’s ethereal plaster forms are showcased alongside Louise Nevelson’s monumental constructions and Barbara Hepworth’s intimate stone silhouettes. More
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‘Great Women Sculptors’ Surveys More Than 300 Trailblazing Artists Through 500 Years of History
Celebrating more than 300 trailblazing artists, Great Women Sculptors, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys half a millennium of remarkable work from the Renaissance to today. At more than 340 pages, the volume is organized alphabetically, aligning some of the best-known names from history with artists making waves today.
Yayoi Kusama’s colorful polka dots, Portia Munson’s feminist found-object evocations, and Mária Bartuszová’s ethereal plaster forms are showcased alongside Louise Nevelson’s monumental constructions and Barbara Hepworth’s intimate stone silhouettes. More
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Johanna Goodman’s Larger-than-Life Collaged Figures Embody Strength and Resilience
From neighborhood highlights to presidential candidates to the total solar eclipse event this past April, Johanna Goodman’s lighthearted collages highlight vital issues, current events, and pivotal personalities. Foregrounding city scenes, iconic architecture, or vivid patterns, the figures in her compositions confidently embody their surroundings and concerns.
Catalogue of Imaginary Beings (previously). More recently, she has branched into numerous sub-series that often focus on specific themes, ranging from regional celebrations—like a collection celebrating the heritage of the Bronx neighborhood in New York City—to fashion, the seasons, mythology, or her vision for the future. More
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In ‘Especially Terrific,’ Pat Perry Conjures the Exceptional Memories of Middle America
Especially Terrific, the title of Pat Perry’s most recent body of work, is multivalent. The phrase invokes both the exceptional and also the grim, which the Detroit-based artist conjures as he captures singular moments on canvas.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Especially Terrific zeroes in on “America from backstage,” glimpsing small-town life and family gatherings. Two women pose on wooden bleachers with an array of cakes and pies in “Call on Me,” while “Memorial Van” displays four photos on the dashboard of a weathered vehicle. More
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Visit Tamara de Lempicka’s First U.S. Retrospective in San Francisco This October
Nearly one hundred years after Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) first exhibited her work in San Francisco, a sweeping survey of the storied and glamorous artist opens again in the city. This October, at the de Young—part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—the show marks the artist’s first U.S. retrospective and illuminates new details about her life.
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Patrick Cabral Taps into Filipino Culture with Elaborate Sculptures of Vibrant Paper Motifs
Elaborate paper sculptures continue to emerge from Patrick Cabral’s Manila studio, including a roiling cockfight that took more than a year to complete. Stretching six feet wide, the monumental work highlights Cabral’s exquisitely cut motifs, which add texture and depth to the otherwise smooth medium. Layers of lace-like patterns, stripes, and other frills adorn the birds shown pre-fight with wings splayed and claws bared.
previously) often invokes Filipino culture in his practice. More
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A Curtain-Like Facade Wraps a Seoul Textile Maker in Billowing Brick
A South Korea fashion brand and textile manufacturer’s headquarters in Seoul gets a stunning new look thanks to German architecture firm behet bondzio lin architekten. Located in Seongsu-dong, a neighborhood historically known for its red brick factory buildings, the new multistory structure defies the material’s traditionally angular application by incorporating an undulating, drapery-like facade.
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Glass Sculptures by Norwood Viviano Cast Iconic City Skylines Atop Emblems of Local Industry
“I find myself looking at the world as a surveyor—telling stories through objects,” says Norwood Viviano, whose kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic city skylines through each location’s recognizable industries. Houston oil, Pittsburgh steel, and Portland timber are represented alongside odes to Detroit “Motor City” and Toledo, “The Glass City.”
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Through Mixed-Media Quilts, Pacita Abad Dives Into the Lush Marine Ecosystems of the Philippines
After a traumatic childhood moment in which she nearly drowned, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) developed a profound fear of water. The massively prolific Filipina-American artist decided to overcome her trepidation in the 1980s and signed up for diving lessons at the British Sub-Aquatic Club in Thailand. There, she learned to safely plunge into the depths of the sea, completing more than 80 dives across the Phillippines in her lifetime.
Tina Kim Gallery in New York is a vivid series of trapunto paintings—a quilting technique that involves adding stuffing for puffed layers—inspired by Abad’s love for swimming. More
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A Filmmaker Documents the Unique Relationship Between Prosthetist and Patient in ‘Fitting’
Fitting,” filmmaker Caitlin McMullan shares a sensitive moment at a medical office. Sitting on an exam table, she chats with Alison Morton, who carefully molds a cast around McMullan’s thigh and knee to create a prosthetic. The short film follows the pair, focusing the lens on the lower appendages as Morton measures, molds, and smooths a model that will help shape a new limb. As McMullan tries the leg on and shares how it forms to her body, she offers a unique view into the meticulous science behind the process of fitting the medical aid, along with the special intimacy between a prosthetist and a patient. More
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Print Your Own Postcards and Miniature Woodcuts with This Tabletop Printing Press
Cologne-based designers Martin Schneider and Dominik Schmitz of the Open Press Project are back with a new design that scales up miniature printmaking. Currently funding on Kickstarter, The Postcard Printing Press is the largest miniature model the duo have created so far, although it still fits on the palm of a hand and can be neatly tucked into a backpack for easy transport.
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Ceramic Houseplants by Ariana Heinzman Revel in the Absurdity of Domestication
Over the centuries, humanity’s relationship with wilderness has becoming increasingly fraught, as we continue to diminish natural green spaces in favor of roads, buildings, and manicured lawns. For Vashon Island-based artist Ariana Heinzman, our connection—or disconnection—to nature plays a central role in her vibrant ceramics practice.
Habitat for a Fake Plant at J. Rinehart Gallery, Heinzman (previously) conceived of a collection of quirky stoneware houseplants that sit on stools, irregularly shaped large-scale paintings, and decapitated-looking cuttings installed on the wall. More
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A Hooded Bronze Figure Sends Rainbows Wafting Across the River Enz
A bronze, elf-like figure sits at the edge of the River Enz in Germany, waiting to greet passersby with delightful arcs of color. The mysterious form, installed as part of Ornamenta 2024, was conceived by Veronika Sedlmair and Brynjar Sigurðarson over three years. The Iceland and Germany-based creative duo, a.k.a. Studio Brynjar & Veronika, has been working together for more than a decade, designing and executing pieces inspired by the theatrical and narrative aspects of nature. More
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Animals Balance Precariously and Greet Each Other Across Voids in Banksy’s New Murals
In the U.K., thousands of police remain on standby as a series of riots instigated by far-right supporters have escalated during the past week. The unrest that erupted last Tuesday was spurred by a senseless act: the murders of three children in a dance class in Southport, on the west coast of England, also left eight other children and two adults critically injured. Violence broke out in Southport, then spread quickly to other cities, culminating in assaults on police and racially-motivated attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers. More
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Dreams and Memories Form and Dissipate in Tomohiro Inaba’s Delicate Iron Sculptures
In Tomohiro Inaba’s intimate metal sculptures, majestic animals and gentle humans are the stuff of dreams and fairytales. As if scribbled energetically in 3D, delicate lines of iron transition the solid forms of deer, foxes, or sheep into thin air—what Inaba calls the “gradient to blank.” Yet this emptiness takes on a life of its own, spinning a sense of mystery and inviting the viewer to question what forces might be causing it or where the boundary lies between presence and absence. More
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Otherworldly Flora and Futuristic Creatures by the Haas Brothers Illuminate the Nasher Sculpture Center Grounds
A bizarre botanical collection sprouts from the grounds at Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. A tall, spindly specimen with a droopy head illuminates a walkway, while a sprawling tree lush with strawberries looms large in a gallery. Patinaed in an otherworldly blue, these cast bronze sculptures seem like they’ve emerged from a radioactive swamp or been transplanted from a distant planet.
Moonlight, the strange organisms are the latest project from fraternal twins Nikolai and Simon Haas, who work together as the Haas Brothers. More
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Erick Medel Stitches Vibrant Stories of Los Angeles’s Immigrant Community
Using a sewing machine and thread, Los Angeles-based artist Erick Medel highlights the vitality of his home city. Influenced by the daily goings-on in his local Boyle Heights neighborhood, the artist focuses especially on the immigrant community, capturing people at work, on walks, at festivals, or running errands.
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