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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Tonika Lewis Johnson: Segregation and How to Disrupt It

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.
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fromColossal
2 months 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.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Meet the Artist Who Spent 12 Years Remaking 'Titanic,' Shot for Shot

Instead, this version surfaces as a labor of love, a shot-by-shot remake of the 1997 blockbuster, assembled over more than a decade by an artist and featuring a cast of hundreds. " " marks the New York premiere of Titanic, A Deep Emotion Claudia Bitrán's reimagining of the James Cameron film, crafted with a variety of disciplines from drawing and painting to performance and sculpture.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months ago

sustainable ice skating rink occupies palazzo diedo's frescoed banquet hall in venice

A 100-square-meter synthetic skating rink occupies Palazzo Diedo's frescoed hall, combining sustainable ice simulation, sound, and lightboxes to juxtapose Baroque permanence with bodily experience.
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fromwww.7x7.com
3 months ago

Locals We Love: Documentary photographer Ashima Yadava democratizes art through collaboration.

Ashima Yadava returned portraits to photographed families so they could alter and annotate images, enabling participatory reclamation of pandemic-era visual narratives.
fromHyperallergic
3 months ago

Yoko Ono's Art Is an Exercise in Hope

CHICAGO - With her iconic long dark hair curtaining her demure countenance, Yoko Ono has been in my personal pantheon of women makers for most of my life. When I was a distraught teenager in a midwestern suburb, she was there - singing discordant arias from my bedroom stereo. Her siren call couldn't quite be deciphered, but, like a feminist signal from afar, it cut through the fog of oppressive cultural forces.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 months ago

red and white curtains transform czech historic center's pathways into christmas installation

The Christmas Festival of Bad Habits is a temporary -space installation located on Římské náměstí in the historic center of Brno, Czech Republic. Developed by architectural studio Peer Collective in collaboration with artist Kateřina Šedá, the non-profit organization Renadi, and the Brno-střed Municipal District, the project reconsiders the spatial and social format of the traditional Christmas market. Instead of retail-driven programming, the installation introduces a structured environment for reflection, movement, and collective experience.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
5 months ago

common names exhibition 'unspoken codes' fosters space for voices left unheard

Collective hand-painted hexagon tiles and new artworks create a participatory visual language that transforms silence into shared emotional expression, dissolving boundaries between artist and audience.
fromColossal
7 months ago

'No One Knows All It Takes' Invites Community Healing at the Haggerty Museum of Art

A core component of the Colossal-curated exhibition, No One Knows All It Takes, is community participation. Each of the artists- Bryana Bibbs, Raoul Deal, Maria Gaspar, and Swoon ( previously)-is deeply engaged with the people they portray and collaborate with, a commitment that inspires nuanced, insightful projects and a truly communal process. As part of the exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art, we've considered how to reflect this mode of working through programming and a participatory project.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
8 months ago

What Burning Man can teach you about yourself and the world, even if you never go

Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco's Baker Beach as a symbolic act of letting go of their personal crises. They call it the First Burn. Every year since, the two committed to doing it again.
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fromColossal
9 months ago

JR's Tree of 10,000 Hands Takes Root in a Former Montpellier Church

JR's exhibition 'Adventice' features a tree of 10,000 scanned and printed hands as a call for unity, celebrating community and the importance of diversity.
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fromCreativeApplications.Net
10 months ago

Seesaw Economy Manifesto - A mechanism of worth, care, and emotional resonance

The Seesaw Economy Manifesto reimagines the concept of value through interaction and co-created meaning rather than static economic metrics.
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fromItsnicethat
10 months ago

The Dreamers: IED students open up a visual conversation about the hopes and realities of youth

The event aimed to portray the complexities of contemporary youth through art and honest exploration.
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