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The Great Picture Book of Everything; Hokusai’s Unpublished Illustrations | #CuratorsCorner S6 Ep8
Do you know how a bear catches its lunch? What the mythical Edo period equivalent of waiting at the bus stop looks like? Can you identify Hokusai’s favourite duck? Never fear, curator Alfred Haft is going to give you the … Continue reading
‘Beyond Monet’ Exhibition Is Largest Immersive Experience in Canada | My Modern Met
By Margherita Cole on September 17, 2021 All over the world, immersive art exhibitions are providing a new way for people to enjoy famous paintings. The latest of these shows celebrates the father of Impressionism, Claude Monet, in a never-before-seen … Continue reading
Sinuous Branches Envelop Human-Sized Nests and Large Geometric Sculptures by Charlie Baker
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021. GRACE EBERT Brooklyn-based designer Charlie Baker wrangles unruly branches and twigs into large-scale sculptures and installations that highlight the natural curvature of his foraged materials. Whether cloaking a perfectly round sphere in wood or constructing a treetop nest … Continue reading
Evoking Childhood Nostalgia, Color and Cartoon Commotion Burst from Kayla Mahaffey’s Paintings | Colossal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021. GRACE EBERT “The Sweet Escape” Surrounding Black children with jumbled masses of cartoon characters, doodles, and explosions of color, Chicago-based artist Kayla Mahaffey (previously) imagines adolescent daydreams and an array of playtime inventions. She infuses her acrylic … Continue reading
Vibrant Drawings Use Layers of Colors and Lines To Visualize Modern People | My Modern Met
By Margherita Cole on September 14, 2021 Portraits not only capture the personality of the sitter, but also the character of the era in which they were made. Denver-based artist Lui Ferreyra utilizes color, shape, and line to create striking … Continue reading
The Graffiti that Changed a City
The story of a housing block and two people. […] MUSIC: https://pastebin.com/bGHEqFhe Special thanks to Karim Miah.
Mammoth Straw Creatures Populate Japanese Farmland in the Annual Wara Art Festival
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021. GRACE EBERT If you visit Japan’s Niigata Prefecture during the region’s annual rice harvest, you’re likely to find enormous tarantulas, eagles, and dinosaur-like creatures stalking the bucolic landscape. The towering sculptures are part of the Wara Art … Continue reading
Artist Thierry Mandon Lives in Suspended Domestic Scenes Within the Ghost Rooms of Severed Buildings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021. GRACE EBERT “Tableau vivant” (2007-2008). All images © Thierry Mandon Multidisciplinary artist Thierry Mandon casts himself as the subject of his satirical works as he reads in a bed hazardously suspended feet above the ground or sips a … Continue reading
Elaborately Constructed Figures by ‘People Too’ Create a Cast of Quintessential Characters in Paper | Colossal
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021. GRACE EBERT “Nitro.” All images © People Too If you ran into Nitro, Lotto, Sully, or the rest of their troupe on the street, it’d be easy enough to imagine their respective personalities and lifestyles: Nitro is the … Continue reading
Nondescript Human Heads Appear Burned into Large-Scale Matches by Wolfgang Stiller | Colossal
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 GRACE EBERT Group of five Matchstickmen (2019), wood, polyurethane, paint, each 155 centimeters. All images © Wolfgang Stiller Often propped up in a row or symbolically arranged, the ongoing series of charred matches by Wolfgang Stiller are … Continue reading
Cantoya Fest 2018 Pátzcuaro Mexico
#CantoyaFest is an annual festival that takes place each year in magic town of Pátzcuaro Mexico. During Cantoya Fest over 500 giant paper balloons are launched into the air and thousands more smaller ones. The Cantoya Fest event is said … Continue reading
The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude | The Kid Should See This
Fly high above Italy’s Lake Iseo for the opening day of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piersinstallation. On June 18th, 2016, tourists and locals walked across 7,503 deep saffron-colored panels that wrap around 220,000 buoyant polyethylene cubes. The walkways connect … Continue reading
