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George Underwood: the designer who gave Bowie's albums their iconic look

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George Underwood From schoolyard friends to legendary album covers, we chat with David Bowie's lifelong collaborator about his artistic journey and a new exhibition of work inspired by the much-missed singer. But ultimately, while David's heart was in music and performance, George found his calling in visual arts.

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Flora Bai on art as self-healing, developing her style, and exploring parallel worlds via shoes

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Originally from Wuhan, Flora moved to New York four years ago to chase her artistic ambitions. Ever since I was a child, I've always dreamed of becoming an artist," she tells Creative Boom. "I This creative freedom led to Flora taking her drawings, sculptures and paintings and applying them to American art schools.

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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

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Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibition You, Me and The Balloons is a colourful wonderland of inflatable inspiration: a suitable opener for a brand new type of arts centre. The experience of the scale is what's important.

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Celebrating collaboration: Blackburn’s National Festival of Making

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This year's National Festival of Making in Blackburn, Lancashire, will host four new commissions for which artists have paired with industrial sector factories to reinforce Lancashire as a centre for making in the UK. The Art in Manufacturing residencies began in 2016 and take place between November and July.

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Artists demonstrate how to grab attention at the world's biggest design event

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Yes, it's quite a complex topic to evoke in a work of visual art. Hideki's team also crafted sculptures that surround the car, which are physically identical but use internal lighting with different textures to represent the idea of personalisation. But Hideki came up with an inventive and elegant response to the challenge.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

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Artist Xiangni Song has transferred everything she learnt from the world of illustration to her paintings, which specialise in capturing daily observations and peculiar personal experiences. Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016.

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Warhol, Land Art and a giant mirrored building set in the striking desert landscape of ancient Saudi Arabia

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Amid this backdrop of transformation, Arts AlUla has been formed to commission site-specific artworks from international and Saudi artists. In 2020 and again last year, Desert X (alternatively held in Coachella, California every other year) saw the installation of incredible sculptures framed by windswept red sandstone cliffs.

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