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New exhibition casts cowboy culture in a new light

Creative Boom

Anthony Hurd, Howdy Stranger, 2024 With Beyonce's album Cowboy Culture riding high in the charts, the opening of the new exhibition Weird West couldn't be better timed. So it's the perfect time for the opening of a new group exhibition, Weird West , at Hashimoto Contemporary gallery in Los Angeles. Many of us love a good Western.

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Photographer Mariano Doronzo documents a 'peculiar' community of male bathers

Creative Boom

If you've ever been away from your home town and felt that longing for a familiar sense of place, you might appreciate images from Nottingham-based, Italian photographer Mariano Doronzo 's first solo photography exhibition – because that's exactly what inspired it. TWELVE in Nottingham, on this page.

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Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

Creative Boom

That's the theory, at least, expounded by a new exhibition hosted by London's Somerset House. Juno Calypso, The Honeymoon Suite, 2015. We Invoke the Culture of Heretics”) , 2015. The exhibition's third and final act, Witch, focuses on the period stretching from 2008's financial crash until the present day. © Juno Calypso.

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Northern Soul revived: Elaine Constantine's photographic journey into a British subculture

Creative Boom

The Ritz, Manchester, 1990s © Elaine Constantine In a new exhibition and book, the photographer presents her fascinating document of the northern soul scene of the 1990s, revealing its extreme aerobics and unstoppable energy. If it weren't for Northern Soul, my husband would never have been born.

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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar. Marble Dream, 2020 © Sarah Graham Starman, 2023 © Sarah Graham Sweet All Stars, 2022 © Sarah Graham In June, she has her biggest solo exhibition to date.

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From Space Age to Metaverse: Vitra’s New Sci-Fi Design Exhibition

Design Milk

This impact is so significant that Swiss furniture company Vitra has dedicated a year-long exhibition titled Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse to explore this intersection of design and science fiction. Science fiction has had an immense influence on the arts, including literature, cinema, graphic arts, and design.

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Adrian Cox's visionary art explores mythic narratives and spiritual meaning

Creative Boom

We share some highlights of his upcoming exhibition, The Brush and the Torch. Cox's new show will feature 25 new works, marking his largest solo exhibition to date and fourth at the gallery. The central figure in the painting is a recurring character named Painter, who first appeared in my work in 2015.

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