Design Milk

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Numerous researchers and designers are looking toward biomimicry to tackle pollution and climate change utilizing several mechanisms already found in trees and other photosynthetic species, including architecture and design innovation firm ecoLogicStudio’s towering tree-like sculpture aptly named, Tree.ONE.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Large-Scale Ceramics That Are Both Eye-Catching + Functional SCP presented an exhibition of new, large-scale ceramic works by Dutch designer Floris Wubben during this year’s London Craft Week to showcase a series that fuses function with sculpture. And the most popular art post of 2023 is… 1.

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Design Milk

JUNE 20, 2023

Ten years later, the 94-year-old Kusama presents a brand new (and much bigger) Infinity Room , included within a dazzling four-room exhibition that includes polka-dotted pumpkin walls, towering flowers, and new abstract paintings. Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023 (detail) © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“Sun Dance Kids (Boy and Girl)” (2023), fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, wooden mask, brass, and steel, 133 x 148.5 “Modern Spiritual II” (2023), woodcut with batik fabric collage on Somerset Satin 410gsm tub-sized paper, 124.6 centimeters. Photo by Stephen White & Co.,

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Colossal

MAY 1, 2023

Spring Open Call for the Hopper Prize Grants Featured The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for Spring 2023 artist grants. PST on May 16, 2023. ON::View Artist Residency Program, Fall 2023 Featured Applications are now open for the On::View Artist Residency Program in Savannah, Georgia. Deadline: June 1, 2023.

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JULY 3, 2023

Open Calls Franklin Furnace 2023 XENO Prize for Artists’ Books (International) This prize offers $5,000 to one artist to publish an artist’s book centered around book banning/burning in an edition of at least 120 copies. Deadline: July 4, 2023. Deadline: Midnight ET on July 5, 2023. Deadline: July 10, 2023.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2023

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty? What is beauty?

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We’re no stranger to Jaime Hayon’s work which is why we were excited to learn about his latest exhibition, Jaime Hayon: InfinitaMente , at the Center del Carme Cultura Contemporània (CCCC) in Valencia, Spain. Two of the rooms in the exhibition are dedicated solely to glass and ceramics, two central materials in Hayon’s works.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Crafted from a multitude of materials including ceramic and steel, this piece also exhibits an oxidized copper finish with limbs emerging from a chunky bed-like structure, transitioning from a static to kinetic force. by Carol Bove Carol Bove’s work is composed through the experimentation of modern metal sculpture. Photo: Courtesy P.P.OW

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On view through April 23, 2023 at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in California, A Conversation With Trees exhibition showcases a series of monolithic sculptures and furniture carved out of recovered, fallen local trees from a windstorm in Claremont. One piece is made from the discarded wood scraps of his larger sculptures.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

PST on December 14, 2023. ET on December 11, 2023. Deadline: December 15, 2023. Deadline: December 27, 2023. Prisma Art Prize (International) Open to emerging painters and artists, this quarterly competition awards €2,000 in cash and €3,000 in services annually, plus exhibition opportunities. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Maraya, AlUla © Creative Boom 2023 A country four times the size of France, made up almost entirely of desert, Saudi Arabia is reimagining itself as a post-oil tourist destination. Film still courtesy The Andy Warho Museum Installation Photo © Arts AlUla / © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Design Milk

JUNE 1, 2023

One of the highlights of NYCxDesign 2023 was a groundbreaking exhibition featuring the works of 20 emerging and established, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) female-identifying artists and designers.

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Colossal

JUNE 1, 2023

Deadline: June 16, 2023. PST on June 22, 2023. Deadline: June 4, 2023. Deadline: 11:59 PST on June 5, 2023. Deadline: June 6, 2023. PT on June 10, 2023. EDT on June 12, 2023. Artist Grant applications are now open through June 16 at artprize.org. Deadline: 11:59 p.m. There is a $35 application fee.

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Colossal

AUGUST 6, 2024

All images courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center, shared with permission A bizarre botanical collection sprouts from the grounds at Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Patinaed in an otherworldly blue, these cast bronze sculptures seem like they’ve emerged from a radioactive swamp or been transplanted from a distant planet.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

EDITOR’S NOTE: As admirers of Toronto designer Maha Alavi’s work (we featured her Frooot bowl in 2021 and her Lithic chair in our recap of this January’s IDS Toronto ), we were excited to hear that she’d be showing at London Design Festival 2023 and asked her to document the week through a designer’s eyes.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Just this week, a trio of developers announced that Kengo Kuma and Associates will be introducing a new commercial complex in the city’s Design District — an area that already boasts a waterfall-esque façade treatment by Sou Fujimoto and eye-catching sculptures by the likes of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Buckminster Fuller.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Marik Lechner’s first exhibition stateside promises one thing: Mild Pain Guaranteed. Running from October 25 to December 16, 2023 at L’SPACE , the artist strays away from the paintings he’s known for in favor of large-scale, brightly colored tapestries, drawings, and embroideries made within the past five years.

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Colossal

MAY 16, 2023

All images © Jonathan Hateley, shared with permission Immersed in nature, female figures dance, reflect, and rest in Jonathan Hateley ’s limber bronze sculptures. “I was drawn to create a sculpture reflecting nature on the surface of the figure, which could be better highlighted with the use of colour,” he tells Colossal.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now living in London, Milovanovich works across several mediums, from sculpture to painting, and digital art while pulling from these lived experiences, learned techniques, jokes, and memories. Each sculpture pulls from cubism, surrealism, humor, and references to the natural world.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 9, 2023

To Err is Human, 2023 © Samson Bakare. Courtesy of DCG and the Artist On the eve of his upcoming solo exhibition 'Let This Be A Sign', Nigerian artist, painter and sculptor Samson Bakare tells Creative Boom about his inspirations, process and unique approach to re-envisioning the history of Africa.

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Colossal

MAY 19, 2022

The enchanting, imaginative narratives usually bound between the covers of a book burst from the page in the sculptures of Su Blackwell. Photo by Jaron James. All images © Su Blackwell, shared with permission. “The themes I explore have a universal appeal, and overall, there is a sense of hope pervading the works.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That's the theory, at least, expounded by a new exhibition hosted by London's Somerset House. The exhibition's third and final act, Witch, focuses on the period stretching from 2008's financial crash until the present day. Act three: Witch. © Barnbrook; Somerset House (1). Tickets cost £16.50/£12.00 concessions.

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Design Milk

JUNE 14, 2023

It wasn’t that long ago that we shared Caroline Chao’s work in the AAPI exhibition Upon Further Reflection , but she’s on a hot streak! It debuted this year at “PLAYSCAPE” at Salone Satellite during Milan Design Week 2023 before going to win big at NYCxDesign 2023.

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Design Milk

MAY 25, 2023

During NYCxDesign 2023 , The Future Perfect launched a solo exhibition featuring new work by Chris Wolston. The Flower Power collection comprises 13 sculptural chairs and benches inspired by tropical flora seen in the mountains and forests surrounding Wolston’s adopted Colombian home. Photography by Joseph Kramm.

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Design Milk

MAY 18, 2023

The close knit Icelandic design and craft community exhibits a similar resiliency and resourcefulness shaped by the local landscape, attributes on full display each year across Reykjavik under the banner of DesignMarch.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 23, 2024

On view at Dia Chelsea through July 2024, artist Delcy Morelos presents El abrazo , an exhibition of two site-specific sculptures that invite a sacred connection to soil that may be the most surprising and satisfying experience with art in New York at the moment. Delcy Morelos, Cielo terrenal (Earthly Eaven, detaill), 2023.

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Design Milk

MAY 26, 2023

The solid parabolic cone with a concave face made from cast crystal glass results in a sculptural light source that illuminates with a spectral glow. Paired with a machined conical dimmer that adds to its solid weighty presence, the limited edition series of five light sculptures are also polished and waxed by Kovacsy himself.

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Colossal

MARCH 4, 2024

“Chouette (Owl)” (2023), metal mixed media sculpture, 38 x 36 centimeters. If you’re in Paris this April, stop by Galerie Bettina , where Martinet will exhibit a combination of bronze and unique sculptures. In November, the artist will present a solo exhibition of new work at Sladmore Gallery in London.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

But nowhere is Milan’s role as a global lighting capital more evident than at the city’s Fiera Milano exhibition centre during Euroluce — a biennial showcase of all things illumination held as part of the larger Salone del Mobile furniture fair. Here is our tour of the standouts from Euroluce 2023. What Stood Out?

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JUNE 2, 2023

In her solo exhibition Folies at Mariane Ibhrahim , an immersive, site-specific installation challenges notions of scale, while a range of drawings and three-dimensional pieces expand on the possibilities of paper with the addition of bronze and silk tapestries. Folies continues through September 9 in Mexico City.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This year, British designer Lee Broom had the honor of being invited by Maison&Objet to share his work in an exhibition that featured iconic pieces, fresh developments, and collaborations from some of Britain’s top designers. Alongside Hail were the Vesper Duo lights.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kiki Van Eijk and Joost Van Bleiswijk, otherwise known as Kiki and Joost , opened up their workshop during Dutch Design Week 2023 for an exhibition entitled Perpetuum Mobile , Latin for “perpetual motion.”

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

His newest exhibition “Your psychoacoustic light ensemble” is currently on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and presents a range of perception-tripping new works, including watercolors that emulate spectral light, new color-shifting glass sculptures, and a surprising room where sound becomes visible and light feels audible.

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Left: “Collie Pheasant” (2023). Bernard Pheasant” (2023). In her solo exhibition Strange World at Track 16 , Broz continues to explore the subversive and absurd through the leitmotif of midcentury kitsch. Right: “St. Both mixed media on secondhand ceramics, 10.5

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In 2020, a Nashville hotel commissioned a large-scale installation of floating musical instruments for its lobby, and the artist is currently in progress on a sculpture using the original guitar that Robby Krieger played on The Doors’ first album. Find more on his website , and follow updates on Instagram.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As the year comes to a close, and we conclude our annual tradition of celebrating the best in design around the world — including public spaces , interiors , products , and houses — the dominant themes of 2023 are beginning to emerge. But, of course, aesthetics alone do not define the best architecture projects of 2023.

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