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How living in the desert gave new life to Melissa Lakey's mixed-media art

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Moving to the high desert in 2015 brought me back to art after a long hiatus," she recalls. Her new show, entitled 'A Desert Made of Dreams & Other Tall Tales', is about to open at the HeyThere Projects gallery, which is located near the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.

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

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Courtesy of John Marchant Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Juno Calypso, The Honeymoon Suite, 2015. We Invoke the Culture of Heretics”) , 2015. Jamie Reid, Monster On a Nice Roof, 1972. © Jamie Reid. Harminder Judge, Self Portrait (after Kali & Gene), 2009. © Harminder Judge.

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

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So we're excited to learn that his next major solo show is coming to Los Angeles' Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) this June. Cox's new show will feature 25 new works, marking his largest solo exhibition to date and fourth at the gallery. The Brush and the Torch is on view at Corey Helford Gallery , 571 S. Anderson St.

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

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She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar. If you want to pop along to Sarah Graham's upcoming show, you can visit Arkley Fine Art gallery in Hitchin from June. To discover more about her work, visit sarahgraham.info.

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New exhibition casts cowboy culture in a new light

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As a result, we've seen a lot of cultural works in recent years redefine cowboy culture, challenge traditional stereotypes and offer more nuanced portrayals, from the 2015 movie Brokeback Mountain about gay cowboys to 2021's The Harder They Fall, a Netflix Western featuring a diverse cast, including black and indigenous characters.

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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

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Edit recently gained attention for their rebranding work for Salford's Lowry Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery , projects that underscored their commitment to driving community engagement through design. EDIT's rebrand of The Lowry National Portrait Gallery by EDIT 10. KALW by COLLINS KALW by COLLINS KALW by COLLINS 25.

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Ed Little of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like

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Ed Little has come a long way for someone who left university in 2015 with a BA in Politics and Sociology and no idea what he wanted to do. Plus, there's a belief that we want to create work that's less for White Cube [a global network of contemporary art galleries] and more for Tesco. Appetite and experimentation.

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