Embraced by Wildflowers, Black Figures Emerge Defiantly Resilient in Yashua Klos’s Collaged Portraits
Early in the morning of July 23, 1967, police raided an after-hours, unlicensed bar known colloquially as a “blind pig”—a speakeasy—on the Near West Side of Detroit. Law enforcement expected only a few customers inside, but to their surprise, more than 80 people were in attendance for a party celebrating GIs returning from the Vietnam War. The police decided to arrest everyone, and by the time they were through, a sizable and angry crowd had gathered outside to witness the raid. More
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A Futuristic 150-Foot Installation Imagines Chicago’s Never-Built Architecture
With its long vertical lines and neo-Gothic features, the architectural marvel that is Tribune Tower in Chicago has an unorthodox origin story. Home to the newspaper’s operations, the now-iconic building resulted from an international competition hosted in 1922 by the co-publishers. More than 260 architects from 23 countries submitted designs that would house the newspaper, with New York-based John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood ultimately winning the bid.
Klaus and MAS Context brings this history to light. More
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In India, an Undulating Biophilic Farmhouse Wraps Around a Small Mango Grove
Dating back to ancient Babylon, biophilic design is characterized by an intrinsic connection to nature, whether that be lush walls of plants, open-air space, or organic, flowing forms. The style has grown in popularity in recent years, and in Alibag, India, a farmhouse draws on these harmonizing principles by wrapping around a small mango grove.
Blurring Boundaries, “Asmalay” is a curved building made of stone and brick that seems to hug five fruit trees. More
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In India, an Undulating Biophilic Farmhouse Wraps Around a Small Mango Grove
Dating back to ancient Babylon, biophilic design is characterized by an intrinsic connection to nature, whether that be lush walls of plants, open-air space, or organic, flowing forms. The style has grown in popularity in recent years, and in Alibag, India, a farmhouse draws on these harmonizing principles by wrapping around a small mango grove.
Blurring Boundaries, “Asmalay” is a curved building made of stone and brick that seems to hug five fruit trees. More
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In India, an Undulating Biophilic Farmhouse Wraps Around a Small Mango Grove
Dating back to ancient Babylon, biophilic design is characterized by an intrinsic connection to nature, whether that be lush walls of plants, open-air space, or organic, flowing forms. The style has grown in popularity in recent years, and in Alibag, India, a farmhouse draws on these harmonizing principles by wrapping around a small mango grove.
Blurring Boundaries, “Asmalay” is a curved building made of stone and brick that seems to hug five fruit trees. More
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In India, an Undulating Biophilic Farmhouse Wraps Around a Small Mango Grove
Dating back to ancient Babylon, biophilic design is characterized by an intrinsic connection to nature, whether that be lush walls of plants, open-air space, or organic, flowing forms. The style has grown in popularity in recent years, and in Alibag, India, a farmhouse draws on these harmonizing principles by wrapping around a small mango grove.
Blurring Boundaries, “Asmalay” is a curved building made of stone and brick that seems to hug five fruit trees. More
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Jiyong Lee’s Segmented Glass Forms Reference Cellular Structures and Biology
From a young age, artist and educator Jiyong Lee (previously) was fascinated with biological processes. He grew up paging through medical illustration books, amazed by cells and how life starts with the proliferation of just one. Lee’s ongoing Segmentation series is an ode to cell division and the obscurities of life science that can only be viewed with a microscope.
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Relics of Today’s World Feed an Uncanny Future in Max Hooper Schneider’s ‘Carnival of Gestation’
Within a fictional world where organisms adapt to strange circumstances and highly processed foods form the foundation for new life, Max Hooper Schneider’s uncanny sculptures (previously) address ever-evolving ecosystems. He explores relationships between comfort and uneasiness, growth and decay, the natural and synthetic, and toxicity and nourishment through a concept he calls the “Trans-Habitat.” Within this world, he illuminates an eerie, alternative future where living beings and human-made objects have melded through a continuous cycle of destruction, transformation, and re-creation. More
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Relics of Today’s World Feed an Uncanny Future in Max Hooper Schneider’s ‘Carnival of Gestation’
Within a fictional world where organisms adapt to strange circumstances and highly processed foods form the foundation for new life, Max Hooper Schneider’s uncanny sculptures (previously) address ever-evolving ecosystems. He explores relationships between comfort and uneasiness, growth and decay, the natural and synthetic, and toxicity and nourishment through a concept he calls the “Trans-Habitat.” Within this world, he illuminates an eerie, alternative future where living beings and human-made objects have melded through a continuous cycle of destruction, transformation, and re-creation. More
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Relics of Today’s World Feed an Uncanny Future in Max Hooper Schneider’s ‘Carnival of Gestation’
Within a fictional world where organisms adapt to strange circumstances and highly processed foods form the foundation for new life, Max Hooper Schneider’s uncanny sculptures (previously) address ever-evolving ecosystems. He explores relationships between comfort and uneasiness, growth and decay, the natural and synthetic, and toxicity and nourishment through a concept he calls the “Trans-Habitat.” Within this world, he illuminates an eerie, alternative future where living beings and human-made objects have melded through a continuous cycle of destruction, transformation, and re-creation. More
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Dive Into Marine Drama Around the World with This Year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalists
While rays live alone for most of the year, they gather during breeding or migration into groups known as fevers, which number in the hundreds and sometimes thousands. Mobula rays, like those captured in an aerial view by Laura Leusko off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, demonstrate a timeless behavior while reminding us that industrial fishing and pollution continue to take a toll on marine wildlife globally.
Ocean Photographer of the Year (previously) highlights what makes our planet’s largest bodies of water so spectacular—and so critically in need of protection. More
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Stippled, Mottled Textures Meet Minimal Geometries in Hugo Alberto’s Illustrations
“I always do this exercise of simplifying and exaggerating real shapes, finding geometric shapes in nature, and playing with their proportions,” says Hugo Alberto. From his studio in Cuiabá, Brazil, Alberto illustrates soothing, stylized scenes lush with texture. Working primarily in digital mediums, he balances clean, crisp lines with stippled and mottled forms to create pieces that are both minimal and warm.
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Small, Medium, or Large? Sam Keller Cracks Open Consumption with Satirical Sculptures
An oversized slice of American cheese, flattened soda cans encrusted in Swarovski crystal, and a lone Dorito etched with The Eye of Providence put questions of consumption front and center in Sam Keller’s exhibition, Extra Value Meal. On view at VSG Contemporary, the show features the Los Angeles-based artist’s satirical send-ups (previously) that subvert notions of waste and worth. Emptied cans that would be sent to the recycling now hang glimmering in the gallery light, while an enormous piece of cheese wrapped in plastic mocks the present-day reliance on processed food. More
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Small, Medium, or Large? Sam Keller Cracks Open Consumption with Satirical Sculptures
An oversized slice of American cheese, flattened soda cans encrusted in Swarovski crystal, and a lone Dorito etched with The Eye of Providence put questions of consumption front and center in Sam Keller’s exhibition, Extra Value Meal. On view at VSG Contemporary, the show features the Los Angeles-based artist’s satirical send-ups (previously) that subvert notions of waste and worth. Emptied cans that would be sent to the recycling now hang glimmering in the gallery light, while an enormous piece of cheese wrapped in plastic mocks the present-day reliance on processed food. More
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Equipped with Joy and Innumerable Glass Beads, Demond Melancon Stitches Reverential Portraits
A member of the Young Seminole Hunters, Big Chief Demond Melancon leads Black masking traditions in his native New Orleans, spending countless hours stitching small glass beads and feathers into elaborate suits to be worn during Mardi Gras. The labor-intensive garments are just one part of Melancon’s practice (previously), though. He transfers the intricate beadwork to smaller portraits honoring cultural icons, political figures, and those who’ve made a profound impact personally and collectively. More
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Equipped with Joy and Innumerable Glass Beads, Demond Melancon Stitches Reverential Portraits
A member of the Young Seminole Hunters, Big Chief Demond Melancon leads Black masking traditions in his native New Orleans, spending countless hours stitching small glass beads and feathers into elaborate suits to be worn during Mardi Gras. The labor-intensive garments are just one part of Melancon’s practice (previously), though. He transfers the intricate beadwork to smaller portraits honoring cultural icons, political figures, and those who’ve made a profound impact personally and collectively. More
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Equipped with Joy and Innumerable Glass Beads, Demond Melancon Stitches Reverential Portraits
A member of the Young Seminole Hunters, Big Chief Demond Melancon leads Black masking traditions in his native New Orleans, spending countless hours stitching small glass beads and feathers into elaborate suits to be worn during Mardi Gras. The labor-intensive garments are just one part of Melancon’s practice (previously), though. He transfers the intricate beadwork to smaller portraits honoring cultural icons, political figures, and those who’ve made a profound impact personally and collectively. More
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Bisected by the Milky Way, a Stellar Image Captures the Perseid Meteor Shower Raining Down on Stonehenge
One of the brightest and densest meteor showers of the year, the Perseids pour down every August, leaving glowing streaks in their wake. Photographer Josh Dury captured this year’s stellar spectacle near Stonehenge, showing the fireballs illuminating the sky above the prehistoric grounds in Wiltshire, England.
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Abstract Shapes Dance to a Lively Soundscape by Bernie Krause in a Playful Stop-Motion Animation
Bernie Krause is a soundscape ecologist, having spent nearly six decades traveling the globe to record the vast range of noises emerging from tropical rainforests, antarctic tundras, deserts, and more. His work has taken him from the Muir Woods north of his home in the San Francisco area to the beaches of the Galápagos to the lush ecosystems of the Amazon, where he captures unique sonic tapestries of natural life.
Marine de Francqueville visualizes one of Krause’s soundscapes through a series of abstract shapes. 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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