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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Others were not, so on occasion, they came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American writer, philosopher and political activist best known for her essays on modern culture and criticism of the Vietnam War. Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel.

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In ‘Zoophites,’ Les Lalanne Hybridize Beasts and Botany into Functional Sculptures

Colossal

It’s also an apt title for a poetic exhibition of sculptures blending beastly and botanical forms by the late Claude (1925-2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008). Having worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre, the artist often referenced ancient mythology and hybridity in his figures.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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All images © the artist, courtesy of Pace Gallery, shared with permission If you’ve traveled via the Long Island Rail Road service in Manhattan and traversed the MTA’s brand new Grand Central Madison station, you may have noticed a slice of nature indoors in a monumental, wall-spanning mosaic of a woodland deer.

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Rooted in the American South, ‘Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers’ Recognizes Remarkable Artistic Traditions of Black Artists

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Thornton Dial, “Stars of Everything” (2004), mixed media, 248.9 Encompassing more than 60 quilts, sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and assemblages by 34 artists from the mid-20th-century to the present, the exhibition is drawn largely from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. centimeters. x 40 centimeters.

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Joel Shapiro’s New Sculptures Radiate Joy and Defy Gravity

Design Milk

My favorite Joel Shapiro sculpture is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art – an orange dancer-like structure that has made me smile since the first day I arrived in New York, now 23 year ago. Debuting here are three new massive wood sculptures – each taller than any viewer. Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue.

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“Could Policy-Making be Considered Architecture?” A Q&A with Frida Escobedo

Azure Magazine

That all changed this March when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art picked her to design its new $500-million modern and contemporary art wing, 7,435 square metres of galleries and public space. Their first completed project was Casa Negra, built in Mexico City in 2004. He conceived it as a poetic structure, a living sculpture.

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Milan Design Week 2022: Highlights from Our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

Meanwhile, in the EuroCucina section of the fair, there was equal focus on cooking as a science and as an art form, with innovative new approaches to range hoods, steam ovens, and storage solutions sharing space with sculptural new kitchen systems. Design is Milano is design.