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6 days agosensory installation abstracts human anatomy into sculptural light objects
The project explores perception through the five senses, focusing on the moment before interpretation, where sensation precedes cognition and experience is formed through subtle emotional and sensory cues.
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fromThe Washington Post
1 month agoSculptor Thaddeus Mosley, who found international fame in his 90s, is dead
Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught artist who died at 99, created acclaimed abstract wood sculptures using salvaged materials and hand tools, achieving recognition primarily in Pittsburgh despite his seven-decade career.
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fromArchDaily
1 month agoSmiljan Radic: Material Explorations Between Ephemerality and Permanence
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić creates buildings that blend ancient monumentality with provisional fragility, combining diverse materials in experimental ways that challenge conventional architectural categorization.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months agoSand Art Review
Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months agoHow sign painting underpins Sean Thomas' approach to bespoke branding projects
If you're based in London, you've probably walked past one of Sean Thomas' meticulously hand-painted designs. Whether that was grabbing a sandwich at Dom's Subs, dining in at Forza Win (an Italian restaurant in Peckham that the designer has shaped the visual identity of over the last three years), or picking up a copy of Hoxton Mini Press' new book on Britain's best bakeries at your local bookshop.
Typography
fromwww.amny.com
2 months agoThe Modern Salon redefines art and brings quiet design authority to the Winter Show | amNewYork
In the midst of the fabulous The Winter Show last weekwhere connoisseurship, collecting, and cultivated taste converge under one vaulted roofthere was a moment of pause, exhale, and recalibration at the heart of the fair: the VIP Collectors Lounge. This year, not as sponsorship, but as philosophy made spatial. It was titled The Modern Salon. Conceived and designed by frenchCALIFORNIA, The Modern Salon rejected the trade-fair instinct toward visual noise and brand fragmentation.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoArtist Sarah Sze: A work of art is finished when everything teeters'
Sarah Sze’s Gagosian Beverly Hills exhibition uses 13 works—large, intricate paintings and video installations—to create immersive, disorienting landscapes reflecting an image‑saturated, unstable contemporary world.
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