Source artforum.com  The egg is the enigmatic object par excellence, perfect in its form as an incubator of life. Piero della Francesca suspended an egg over the head of his Brera Madonna (1472–74), capturing within it a

Source Design You Trust  Move over lions and tigers, there’s a new predator in town and its got some serious praying skills. We’re talking about the one and only mantis – those sneaky little critters that blend in so well with their surroundings, you’d think they were invisible. But fear not my friends, because wildlife…

Source artforum.com  In her debut solo museum exhibition, “Gratiot Griot,” seventy-year-old mixed-media collage artist Judy Bowman pays tribute to the community that raised her. A child of Detroit’s historic Black Bottom

Source artforum.com  FICTIONS OF EMPIRE abound in adventure, heroism, spectacle. Swashbuckling swordsmen. Precocious war correspondents. Worldly white men clad in Indigenous garb. Out there, in those wild lands, the

Source artforum.com  A collector attending a Miami art fair last Thursday shattered a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog valued at $42,000 after accidentally nudging the plinth on which it was perched. The sixteen-inch-high sculpture,

Source Colossal   “The Gaze” (2021), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. All images © Patrick Akpojotor, shared with permission Combining a love for African masks and the people and buildings of his hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, Patrick Akpojotor (previously) merges the figurative details of faces, shoulders, and arms with the geometric forms of hallways,…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Francis Demaske shares an exquisite portfolio of architecturally inspired paintings and landscapes in his distinctive colorful style. The post Featured Artist Francis Demaske appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” —Haruki Murakami