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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. It's an age-old question, both for the artist and everyday people in general. In 2003, Christian returned to his homeland and set up a studio in Zurich. What is beauty?

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F5: Scott Henderson Talks Powerful Graphic Images, Travel + More

Design Milk

Tony Cragg, Green Early Forms, 2003, edition of 6 Photo: Marian Goodman Gallery. Sculpture. I love the sculptures of Tony Cragg. Abstract sculpture is void of any functional and representational qualities – so why then does it even need to look right? Vulgaris Sculpture. Scott Henderson. OXO Dustpan + Brush.

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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

He started off with plans to carve wooden sculptures, but in the process of renovating, he unintentionally picked up woodcraft – an easier path to creating furniture. The Coral light followed in 2003, establishing a blueprint the brand would use for kitset products that minimized their environmental footprint.

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Top of the Stack: Colossal’s Favorite Art Books of 2022

Colossal

We’ve published dozens of articles on artist monographs and compendiums of broader topics across art and design and science and history over the last 12 months, and these are the 10 titles that impacted us most. This enormous, nearly 500-page monograph explores the inimitable career of artist Olafur Eliasson.

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A Brutalist Icon is Transformed into an Ultra-Sustainable Hotel

Azure Magazine

Though originally slated to be turned into a shopping mall, it was abandoned for nearly a decade before Ikea purchased it in 2003 and partially demolished the building’s base (to clear space for a parking lot), despite protests from local advocacy groups. In the years that followed, it became the subject of controversy. The building’s 4.9-metre-tall

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Xenobia Bailey Envisions a Distinctly African American Aesthetic One Crochet Stitch at a Time

Colossal

All images © Xenobia Bailey, courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan, shared with permission From bright yarns, pony beads, and cowry shells, artist and activist Xenobia Bailey hand-crochets elaborate shooting stars, suspended shelters, and sacred forms. Her work appeared in Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing (1989), in which Samuel L. .”

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Large-Scale Ceramic Works Break Barriers in the ZEMLYA Exhibition

Design Milk

Ukrainian artist-ceramicist Serhii Makhno is celebrating his inaugural gallery exhibition currently taking place at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York City. Biblioteka Bookshelves With ZEMLYA, Makhno has expanded upon the breadth of his work of sculptural lighting and ceramic objets by exploring new scales, forms, and functions.