Category Archives: Art

MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date

Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials. Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office September 12, 2019 With apologies to “Spinal Tap,” it appears that black can, indeed, get more black. MIT … Continue reading

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Artist Amy Karle: Philosophy and Selected Works

Amy Karle is an internationally award winning bioartist whose work can be seen as artifacts of a speculative future where digital, physical and biological systems merge. amykarle.com She leverages body-based investigation, science and technology to create art that catalytically examines … Continue reading

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DEEP TIME AND THE FAR FUTURE (series of 3 sculptures), 2020 | Amy Karle @ The Smithsonian

biocompatible polyamide, gold, copper, silver, paint Extinction seems so finite, but is it? “Scan data” is not just about capturing images or forms, it can also include capturing biological data such as DNA and include processes such as machine learning … Continue reading

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Biologically Accurate Sculptures of Animals by Fanni Sandor Are Smaller Than a Fingernail

Fanni Sandor  has been fascinated by miniatures since childhood, constructing her first sculpture from toothpicks, candle wax, paper, and glue at six years old. “In my country, there (are) no traditions of the 1:12 scale miniature making. In my twenties, … Continue reading

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Delicate Paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung Detail the Small Convenience Stores Throughout South Korea | Colossal

“Peach blossom store” (2020), acrylic ink pen on paper, 122 × 122 centimeters. “Shingur store” (2019), acrylic ink pen on paper, 75 x 135 centimeters Peeking through peach blossoms or nestled into a snowy landscape, the tiny shops that Lee … Continue reading

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Thousands of Plastic Bottles Are Suspended in Green Tendrils in Artist Jean Shin’s Latest Installation

In her installation “Floating MAiZE,” artist Jean Shin employs more than 7,000 plastic bottles to create a stunning suspension above an atrium at Brookfield Place. The window-lined space allows light to refract through the translucent tendrils, which are hung in … Continue reading

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How Augusta Savage Helped Shape the Harlem Renaissance

Andrew Herman (active 1930s–1940s), Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration Augusta Savage with her sculpture Realization, 1938 (Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, Photographs and Prints Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden … Continue reading

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Love the Art, Hate the Artist

Can you separate the art from the artist? This one’s In honor of all the art you used to love, and it’s creators who ruined it by behaving badly. We talk Picasso, Nanette, cats out of bags, and much more. … Continue reading

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6 FIGURE GANG

A short documentary for The Face profiling a UK musical collective of six young female DJ’s. — When six UK DJs and producers drunkenly manifested their desire to earn six figures on a night out, little did they know that … Continue reading

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Powerful and Emotive, Artist Patrick Onyekwere’s Hyperrealistic Portraits Are Rendered Meticulously in Ballpoint Pen

Patrick Onyekwere  imbues his photorealistic portraits with layers of emotion. Before sketching with blue, ballpoint pen, the Nigerian artist invites his subjects into a conversation about their lives, contemporary culture, and nature to establish the mood or story he’s hoping to … Continue reading

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