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V&A names Benjamin Phillips as Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024

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Phillips, who won in the Illustration for Children category, explores themes of Jewish identity, generational divides, and gentrification in his work. This year saw a record-breaking 2,000 submissions, each exploring a diverse array of themes and ideas through the medium of illustration.

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Beyond the Brand: new Warhol exhibition unearths rarely-seen art treasures

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As art historian and museum curator Joachim Pissarro's accompanying essay explains: "Ads is a masterful culmination of Warhol's career-long interest in the blurred lines between commercialism and fine art, and it resituates these omnipresent themes into a new state-of-the art array consonant with this late era's zeitgeist.

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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

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It's a theme that author and illustrator Xinyue Chen, AKA Maiyashu, explores to great effect in their latest picture book, I Will Always Be Here. What do you picture when you think of home? A building, your bedroom, or even just a feeling? This story is inspired by my experience of migration in China and leaving China," they explain. "I

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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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This is a theme within both our printmaking and sculptural practice, raising questions about the effect of nostalgia on people's own past experiences and memories and what might or might not lie just beneath the surface.".

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April 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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All About Photo Magazine Open Call (International) For its 47th issue, AAP Magazine is accepting submissions of portfolios or bodies of work around the theme of shadows. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International) The foundation welcomes applications from painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman who's now considered one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei.

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12 of the best online clothing stores that sell unique pieces by leading artists and designers

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To do so, they collaborate with a range of independent creatives, including illustrator Ingebjørg Hunskaar , designer Rachel Richardson and printmaker Helen Murgatroyd. Each season, they create a fun, flattering, wearable line based on a new radical theme. Miss Pompom.

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