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by Designboom - about 5 hours
Wiki World sets Compact Red Retreat within Wuhan’s forest
 
Red Cabin is an experimental holiday home developed as part of the Merryda Wiki World – Secret Camp, a forest-based project composed of more than a dozen discreet treehouses set within a metasequoia woodland inhabited by migratory birds. The project, located in Dongxihu District, Wuhan, forms part of Wiki World’s ongoing ’Wiki Building School’ initiative, which explores alternative living models through co-building with nature.
 
The site is a dense metasequoia forest characterized by seasonal ecological activity and minimal human intervention. The cabin was positioned in direct response to existing vegetation, with all trees preserved and...
by ArtForum - yesterday at 21:57
Thoughts on the future during festive times
by Designboom - yesterday at 19:01
When Retail Puts on a Surreal New Face
 
In an age when storefronts compete for attention in both the physical and digital realms, some brands are taking retail facades to fantastical new heights. From Tokyo to Toronto, brands are embracing sculptural exteriors, oversized surreal forms, and material experimentation to turn their storefronts into immersive visual landmarks. Imagine a luxury boutique shaped as a giant ship docked on a city street, or a jewelry storefront bursting open as a life-sized elephant strides out. These are real examples of conceptually quirky, surreal, and sculptural facades around the world. Far from mere branding gimmicks, these facades invite passersby into a story or even a...
by archdaily - yesterday at 18:00
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by Aesthetic - yesterday at 14:00
Ayo Akingbade (b. 1994) is an artist, writer and film director. Her short films explore the mundanity of urban life in London’s inner-city boroughs and industrial life in her family’s hometown in Nigeria. Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted film, The Fist, explores intersecting narratives of legacy, labour and architecture. Akingbade focuses on the 1962 opening of the Guinness factory in Ikeja, Lagos, linking Nigeria’s post-independence era to global industrialisation. The piece observes the factory floor, where the building becomes a central character. Through documenting its inner workings, the artist reveals the quiet politics embedded in daily production and consumption. The piece reflects broader...
by Designboom - yesterday at 12:50
a home to harmonize with the arctic landscape
 
Home on a Hill by Pirinen & Salo rises above the shoreline of Lake Inari in northern Finland, shaped by the client’s desire for economy and an unbroken relationship with the surrounding landscape. The dwelling’s form is at once compact and open, and responds directly to the terrain and the long northern light.
 
The exterior carries the presence of a cabin from the Savo region, translated with deliberate irregularity. Spruce board cladding, left untreated, takes on gradual shifts in tone as it weathers. Two chimneys of dissimilar height accentuate the building’s quiet asymmetry, giving the hilltop structure a grounded and familiar presence.
image © Marc...
by Hyperallergic - yesterday at 12:00
Happy last Saturday of the year. We've spent the past few weeks rounding up the best of the best of 2025 — our favorite exhibitions and artworks, the books and films that moved us, memes that made us laugh and helped us process an increasingly dystopian reality. We also published our annual 20 Most Powerless list, a Hyperallergic tradition dating back to our founding days that parodies the market-driven media's arbitrary “most powerful” rankings. Our first-ever Powerless list, published in 2009 (!), included “assistant curators living off $27,000 salaries,” and we're afraid not much has changed ... This year, we shout out undocumented immigrants, artists who've been censored, and...
by Parterre - yesterday at 12:00
Eileen Farrell could sing in all genres. I call her the queen of crossover, especially in her bluesy albums. Eileen Farrell, like Miami, you've got style!
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 11:50
Director of key UK photography venue defends decision, saying safeguarding the collection is paramount
by Designboom - yesterday at 11:30
wooden box with USB cable recharges disposable batteries
 
RegenBox 1 is a portable wooden box designed to recharge disposable AA and AAA alkaline batteries, even with a power bank. A DIY kit that users need to assemble themselves, the device comes with a USB port and power cable that supply energy to the recharger box. The user receives separate parts rather than a finished product, from the printed circuit board to electronic components. However, they need to be handy people because these parts must be soldered together, so this DIY kit needs a soldering iron, solder, and basic knowledge of electronic assembly. 
 
A voltmeter is required to measure battery voltage before and after regeneration, and...
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 11:07
As the founder of Agence Vu, he built a reputation for recognising new talent and commissioning unique assignments
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 11:01
The father of the underground comic book is still an active artist, satirising the “inner hell that is part of American culture”
by The Art Newspaper - yesterday at 10:23
The draw is due to take place at Christie's Paris next April
by Aesthetic - yesterday at 10:00
They last barely 15 minutes yet their images ripple across the world, circulating in magazines, on social media, and in the collective imagination. Fashion shows are fleeting spectacles yet enduring cultural phenomena, simultaneously media events, social rituals, and style-defining moments. The Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition, Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show, currently on view, is a rare deep dive into this ephemeral yet influential art form. Over four immersive rooms, the exhibition traces more than 100 years of fashion show history from intimate Parisian salons to digitally mediated spectacles of today, presenting over a century of design, choreography and cultural negotiation. At its heart, the...
by Juliet - yesterday at 7:53
È la prima metà del 2003 quando la Peggy Guggenheim Collection di Venezia organizza una mostra dal titolo “Kandinsky e l’avventura astratta”, in cui l’unica donna presente è un’artista italiana. Veneziana di origine e deceduta nel 1981 (quindi due decadi prima), Bice Lazzari è da tempo ormai ricordata come la prima pittrice italiana dell’astrazione, colei che ha respinto “ogni forma pittorica immobile e socialmente accettata”, come scritto nella presentazione del curatore di questa mostra milanese che ha, tra i suoi meriti, soprattutto quello di volgere il proprio sguardo su un’artista (molto) ingiustamente poco conosciuta. “I linguaggi del suo tempo” è, infatti, il titolo di una...
by Designboom - friday at 23:35
Pentagonal temporary pavilion interprets Taiwan’s Flame Tree
 
For the Taiwan Lantern Festival, Cheng Tsung FENG developed Temple: Flame Tree, an installation inspired by the royal poinciana, the official city tree of Taiwan. Known for its vivid red blossoms that mark the summer season and accompany local graduation traditions, the flame tree serves as the project’s conceptual foundation.
 
The pavilion translates the tree’s characteristic form into a large-scale spatial structure composed of bent wooden planks and a metal support frame. These elements create five fan-shaped components arranged in a pentagonal configuration around a central circular platform. The composition references the spreading...
by Hyperallergic - friday at 22:28
Homes on fire as fossil fuels burn. Pro-Palestine protesters jailed. Migrants disappeared from the streets of the United States. Trans individuals persecuted and denied life-saving care. Indigenous people's rights under threat.There was no shortage of injustices in 2025. Refusing to be desensitized by the perpetual scroll of tragic images and news headlines, artists and creative activists mobilized their mediums in pursuit of change, sometimes risking their own lives and livelihoods. Below are 10 works that spoke truth to power in 2025, a decidedly non-comprehensive list of murals, protest actions, museum exhibitions, and other artistic gestures to carry us with intention and courage into the new...
by Hyperallergic - friday at 22:26
As this year comes to a close and we gear up for an exciting 2026, let’s take a moment to reflect on Hyperallergic’s most read stories of 2025. From our coverage of the Louvre heist to the rising authoritarianism in the White House, this year has generated plenty of fodder for art discourse, memes, and more. We’re proud of our coverage of the art world this year and the fact that we’ve published so many stories that have resonated with you.This list is only a sample of the work Hyperallergic publishes daily. Over the past year alone, we published almost 2,000 stories by hundreds of authors, and reached millions of readers in our email newsletters and on the web.None of this would have been possible...
by archaeology - friday at 19:30
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—According to a Phys.org report, Victory Nery of the University of São Paulo and his colleagues suggest that fossils discovered at the site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia between 1999 and 2005 represent two distinct species. The hundreds of fossils in the group, including five skulls, have been dated to between 1.85 and 1.77 million years ago. Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all resemble each other, and vary in size. The scientists therefore focused on the surface area of the premolars and molars of three of the Dmanisi...
by archaeology - friday at 19:00
ARISDORF, SWITZERLAND—Live Science reports that two 2,300-year-old gold coins have been recovered from the Bärenfels bog in northern Switzerland by a pair of volunteers working with the local archaeology department, Archaeology Baselland. These Celtic coins imitated Greek gold staters minted during the reign of Philip II of Macedon (reigned 360–336 B.C.), and feature an image of the Greek god Apollo on one side and a two-horse chariot on the other. The Celts added a triple spiral known as a triskele, or triskelion, beneath the horses on the smaller coin’s reverse. These gold coins, and the 34 silver coins that had previously been found in the area, may have been placed in the bog by the Celts as an...
by ArtNews - friday at 17:53
Zahi Hawass, a well-known Egyptian archaeologist, renewed his promise to bring an ancient bust of Nefertiti home this week, claiming that his country was readier than ever to host it once more, thanks to the recent opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza. He called once more for Berlin’s State Museums to return the bust of Nefertiti, which dates to ca. 1351 BCE–1334 BCE and is among the most famous ancient Egyptian artifacts held outside Egypt. It has repeatedly faced calls for repatriation across the years, and was very nearly given back to Egypt during World War II, when the Nazi regime thought that doing so would help Germany curry favor with Egyptians. Ludwig Borchardt, a German Egyptologist,...
by ArtNews - friday at 17:53
Ukraine has requested the extradition from Poland of an archaeologist who was detained in Warsaw earlier this month on suspicion of conducting illegal excavations in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to the Polish media. The Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office received the extradition request from Kyiv authorities for Oleksandr Butyagin, following his apprehension in Poland on December 4. Butyagin, 52, is an employee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, where he leads the archaeology division specializing in the Northern Black Sea region, which encompasses Crimea. Polish authorities arrested Butyagin in Warsaw while on a lecture tour across Europe, with a planned final destination in Belgrade. A...
by ArtNews - friday at 17:00
A recently released set of files related to Jeffrey Epstein implied that the convicted sex criminal’s ties to collector Leslie Wexner ran deeper than some previously thought, placing new scrutiny on the former Victoria’s Secret CEO. One email from an FBI official that was released to the public this week referred to potential “co-conspirators” who had worked with Epstein. While the email was heavily redacted, like other files released by the Department of Justice on December 23, the message clearly refers to Wexner, the namesake collector behind the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Epstein and Wexner’s professional relationship is well-documented. Epstein managed Wexner’s finances and...
by ArtNews - friday at 16:42
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His seminal works—including The Blank Generation (1975), Unmade Beds (1976), and Subway Riders (1979–80)—broke through the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, offering a mix of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed observation of a moment defined as much by economic decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Often made with amateur actors...
by ArtNews - friday at 15:10
The art world spent much of 2025 not unveiling masterpieces but unsealing court documents, as if the industry had drifted into a year-long deposition. What began as the usual background hum of disputes swelled into something grander: collectors accusing advisers, advisers suing one another, estates defending colors, sneaker companies parsing securities law, and even a SoHo garden insisting—quite earnestly—that it is a work of art entitled to federal protection. It was a year in which everyone, from billionaires to anonymous artists, seemed determined to prove that the only medium more enduring than bronze is litigation. Part of the spectacle—if one can call it that—was the dizzying range of conflicts....
by Hyperallergic - friday at 14:12
I joined Hyperallergic six years ago because I was drawn to its integrity and its commitment to tell stories that no other art publication would. And then I discovered the most rewarding part of working here — the freedom to speak my mind without fear. That’s not something to take for granted in a field plagued by bad-faith journalism and subservient, uncritical thinking. Now, as editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic, these values are my north star. This is my pledge: We will always speak our minds freely to meet the moment. We will stand for truth, justice, and equal rights for all. We will fight against tyranny, racism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and elitism in the art world and beyond.We will hold art...
by Aesthetic - friday at 14:00
Every year, Aesthetica Magazine showcases exceptional emerging photographers and world-renowned names. 2025 was no different. We’ve shared some of today’s most exciting talent, from otherworldly landscapes to striking portraits. Here, we bring you a selection of lens-based artists from across the year.  Reuben Wu Reuben Wu’s (b. 1975) images are instantly recognisable. The artist is a National Geographic photographer, known for painting with light. Wu uses drones and long exposures to draw halos around mountains, or render glowing geometric shapes above landscapes, including glaciers, deserts and salt flats. Shimmering white veils drop down from the sky, creating the illusion of a barrier between...
by Parterre - friday at 12:00
Lovely Christmas carol by Pietro Yon, "Gesù bambino" as sung by The Greatest Thing Ever at a Christmas concert in Ravello in 2021. Beautiful!
by Hyperallergic - friday at 12:00
Blue became my favorite color as soon as I laid eyes upon that most reproduced of artworks: Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” a framed poster of which still hangs in my grandmother’s room. Maybe you grew up with a print of this piece somewhere in your home, too.Over the last 12 months though, as blue as they’ve been, I find myself drawn more and more to the green that hooks my eye: the brushstrokes behind enthralled ballet dancers in British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s “Harp-Strum” (2016), the shifting fabric in Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka’s 1931 “Young Woman in Green” and the candy paint of the Bugatti in her 1929 self-portrait, the phthalo green skin of Byron Kim’s...
by The Art Newspaper - friday at 10:47
Authorities plan to extend the $28bn rail project and relocate Maya structures
by Aesthetic - friday at 10:00
Tyrolean photographer Gregor Sailer (b. 1980) has long been fascinated by landscapes shaped by human intervention: unusual structures, remote places and restricted areas. The Polar Silk Road (2017-2022) dealt with the economic exploitation of Arctic regions, whilst the haunting The Potemkin Village (2015–2017) series captured “fake” architectural facades – from military field exercise centres in the USA to European city replicas in China. Now, Sailer turns his attention to agriculture in Cockaigne, a new book and exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Vienna whose title refers to a mythical land of luxury and plenty. To make this series, Sailer employed an analogue view camera to capture...
by Juliet - friday at 6:22
Nel trentennale della scomparsa dell’artista, Martina Caruso, la nipote che aveva un rapporto stretto con Turcato e l’archivio, e Giuliani Adrienne Drake, curatrice della Fondazione, hanno pensato a questa mostra, rispettando la ricerca dell’artista, chiedendosi perché l’opera di Turcato ha ancora una grande importanza in questo momento storico e perché è ancora un punto di riferimento per tantissimi artisti e curatori. Diversi lavori di diverse serie incentrati su un tema: il monocromo che è fedele alla sua ricerca sui colori ma anche sulla materia. La mostra doveva rispettare questo tema e anche il depliant è stato pensato come una narrazione con cinque opere riprodotte e lasciando alcune parti...
by Parterre - thursday at 15:00
Grand Tier Grab Bag anticipates Elina Garanca's upcoming Zwischenfach pivot by sharing her in some other not-quite-mezzo repertoire opposite Brian Jagde.
by Aesthetic - thursday at 14:00
Landscape photography takes on a new depth when people are part of the picture. Human figures can provide scale, emotion and storytelling, transforming a beautiful view into a compelling narrative. Audiences are invited into the scene, questioning who these people are and how they ended up where they are. Characters can express the freedom and self-assurance that comes with connecting with the natural world, or perhaps a lone figure is a metaphor for isolation. Here, we bring you five exciting contemporary photographers who have perfectly captured figures in the wide open landscape.  Summer Wagner Summer Wagner’s “visual poems” are blue-toned shots in which figures are transfixed by smartphones. In one...
by Parterre - thursday at 12:00
Leontyne Price in her early prime is soaring and radiant in traditional Christmas songs.
by Parterre - thursday at 11:09
Bernie Williams and Jonathan Tetelman take over Carnegie Hall for one night. You’ll be fine.
by Juliet - thursday at 10:50
Dopo una brillante edizione nel 2025, Arte Fiera ritorna dal 6 all’8 febbraio 2026, con preview fissata per il 5 febbraio. Sono riconfermati i padiglioni 25 e 26 oltre al comodo ingresso da Piazza Costituzione. Questo sarà l’anno della prima direzione artistica di Davide Ferri (già curatore per cinque edizioni consecutive di Pittura XXI, sezione interamente dedicata al medium pittorico). Ferri sarà affiancato da Enea Righi, che per il quarto anno ricoprirà il ruolo di direttore operativo.
Vista parziale dei padiglioni di Arte Fiera, edizione 2025. Ph courtesy Arte Fiera
Arte Fiera, la più longeva tra le fiere d’arte italiane, ritorna dunque a essere un appuntamento e un riferimento...
by Shutterhub - thursday at 9:00
 
Over the past year we’ve worked hard to make Shutter Hub more accessible than ever. Our community has grown stronger, and we’ve created the greatest number of opportunities in Shutter Hub history.
Here are a few milestones from 2025 that we’d love to look back on with you…
A New Chapter
 2025 was a year of important, meaningful change. To celebrate a decade of Shutter Hub, we completely relaunched our platform as a membership-free, open, and inclusive resource for photographers worldwide.
There was no doubt in our minds that this was the right thing to do and the natural next step, but we didn’t know how people would respond. Your response was incredible! We received so much support from our...
by archaeology - wednesday at 19:30
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. sewer drains at the Roman site of Vindolanda, a fort near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, according to a statement released by the University of Cambridge. Although the fort was equipped with communal toilets, the soldiers’ health was still at risk due to poor sanitation and contaminated food and water. Microscopic examination of the samples detected the eggs of roundworm and whipworm, while Giardia duodenalis was identified with a method called ELISA, in which antibodies bind to proteins produced by single-celled organisms. This is the first time that the protozoan Giardia...
by archaeology - wednesday at 19:00
BOLOGNA, ITALY—A study of the genomes of Italians who have reached the age of 100 has found that they carry a higher proportion of genetic material from the ancestral group known as Western Hunter-Gatherers than the rest of the population, according to a Phys.org report. Researchers led by Stefania Sarno and Vincenzo Iannuzzi of the University of Bologna analyzed the genes of 333 Italian centenarians and 690 healthy adults around the age of 50. These genomes were then compared to more than 100 ancient genomes from four ancestral groups: Western Hunter-Gatherers, Neolithic Anatolian farmers, Bronze Age nomads, and ancient groups from the Iranian and Caucasus regions. All of the individuals in the study...
by Juliet - wednesday at 6:45
La Street Levels Gallery di Firenze presenta “Ecce Homo, Ecce Eva (Quelli che si ricordano)”, la prima mostra personale di Ache77, tra le voci più intense e riconoscibili dell’arte urbana italiana.  Fino all’11 gennaio 2026, gli spazi di via Melegnano 4R accolgono oltre cinquanta opere inedite, create appositamente per l’occasione: un insieme di quarantaquattro archetipi che danno corpo a un rito collettivo, una celebrazione della memoria, del volto e della presenza. L’artista, nato nel 1991 in Romania e cresciuto a Firenze, ha deciso di raccontare quanto di più profondo e autentico ci sia all’interno di una società in cui il confine tra reale e falso appare ormai labile. In questa...
by hifructose - wednesday at 2:18
“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes through in the art,” says Shyama Golden. Read Silke Tudor's full article on the artist by clicking above.
The post The Nature of Life: Shyama Golden on Art, identity, & The Not So Elusive Catsquatch first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by hifructose - wednesday at 1:59
Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above!
The post Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by hifructose - wednesday at 1:35
Sean Norvet has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy–gruesome critiques of consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. Read the full article by clicking above..
The post Tropical Flavored Nightmare: Sean Norvet’s Paintings Are Reflective Mountains of Disgusting Excess first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by ArtForum - tuesday at 23:16
The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. The prize was inaugurated in 2024 and is given in recognition of North American artists who “are accelerating the field forward, building deeper relationships and connections across […]
by ArtForum - tuesday at 20:21
The Trump administration, which this past August announced that it would review current and forthcoming Smithsonian exhibitions “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals,” has reiterated its threat to pull funding if the Smithsonian does not comply. Although the Smithsonian provided the White House with documentation in September, Domestic Policy Council director […]
by ArtForum - tuesday at 20:16
Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. His death was confirmed by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents him. Though best known for his psychologically intense “Übermahlungen,” or overpaintings, Rainer’s experiments touched on Surrealism, minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism, among other genres; throughout, he […]
by archaeology - tuesday at 20:00
COLOGNE, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Cologne, a team of researchers has developed a model to explore possible contact between Neanderthals and modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula between 38,000 and 50,000 years ago. During this period, modern humans arrived in Europe while Neanderthal populations declined steadily and went extinct. The model was run with three parameters: an early extinction of Neanderthals, the survival of a small population of Neanderthals, and the prolonged survival of Neanderthals in the region. In all three cases, Neanderthals were highly sensitive to the alternating cold and warm climate phases known to have occurred at this time. And in most of...
by Thisiscolossal - tuesday at 16:57
What is the value of knowledge? A coffee shop latte easily costs six dollars or more these days, but peruse any used book sale and you’ll find classics of literature and science for mere cents—published works that have had an indelible impact on culture. In many cases, mass production has rendered the value of books—as objects—at pennies. Used bookstores with buy-back policies often play a vital role in simply being able to properly recycle or dispose of volumes that are no longer salable. Hundreds of millions of books are tossed each year, whether due to overstock, age, or damage, which is an ongoing problem for the publishing industry. “The New American” (2021), hardcover book, acrylic varnish,...
by Juliet - tuesday at 10:12
La consapevolezza, assieme alla necessità di risvegliare nella scultura la possibilità di intraprendere nuove forme d’espressione sfuggendo alle normali convenzioni di linguaggio, hanno condotto Valentina Palazzari (Terni, 1975) a ideare Fiammetta, un progetto espositivo curato da Davide Sarchioni e ospitato al Palazzo Pretorio di Certaldo fino al 26 gennaio 2026. In questa occasione i sei ambienti, già sedi dei Vicari fiorentini dal Quattrocento, oltre a essere uno stimolo rispetto alla storica figura e musa ispiratrice boccaccesca Fiammetta, sono motivo di reinterpretazione degli assetti sociali, delle impronte culturali e persino delle implicazioni economiche e politiche del luogo. Tuttavia, Palazzari...
by booooooom - monday at 20:00
A year-end post highlighting our favourite pieces from every art feature this year. This compilations represents the wide array of talent and perspectives that have come to make Booooooom the community that it is.
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us this year! Whether you’ve been following us for a while or participated in your first open call with us, you’re presence here means a lot to us.
You can also check out our year-end posts of photography/photographers here, if you haven’t already!
Which artwork was your favourite discovery this year?
by Thisiscolossal - monday at 19:27
From inexpensive, ubiquitous, and utilitarian materials, virtually endless forms and narratives can be created with a bit of imagination. That’s exactly what the show Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities, opening next month at Wönzimer Gallery, aims to highlight. The group exhibition is curated by Ann Weber, whose work Colossal readers may recognize, along with that of Narsiso Martinez and Shigeru Ban. The show also highlights an iconic chair design by Frank Gehry, who died this month at the age of 96, plus contributions from Jodi Hays, Edgar Ramirez, Leonie Weber, Samuelle Richardson, Jabila Okongwu, and more. Frank Gehry, “Easy Edges Wiggle Chair” (1972), corrugated cardboard and hardboard, 34 x 24 x 17...
by hifructose - monday at 19:25
“I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a ceramicist living and working in Shigaraki—a small town east of Kyoto and home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
The post Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by Thisiscolossal - monday at 16:56
In São Paolo, a midcentury interior is reimagined into a “hybrid habitat” by architect Guto Requena. The project, called “Apartamento Varanda,” reimagines a modernist residence, originally constructed in 1962, with contemporary details that nod to its decades-old spirit while incorporating a particularly organic element in the form of lots and lots of plants. Draped from rafters or bespoke frameworks, Brazilian botanicals create a green oasis indoors. What Requena describes as a “true urban forest” is then complemented by a range of iconic furnishings from both modernist and contemporary eras. See more on the studio’s website. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal...
by booooooom - monday at 15:00
Welcome to our annual year-end photography post highlighting our favourites! Going back through every feature from the past year we’ve compiled our top picks of this year’s roundup. As in previous years this collection represents a wide range of talent and approaches.
We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their work with us and participate in our open calls this year. Whether you’ve been following us for a while or are brand new to our membership, you’re an integral part of what makes the Booooooom community what it is.
If you haven’t seen our previous A Year in Photos posts you can check them all out here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011,...