Source Design You Trust  Grand Prize: “Jonas” by Tiina Itkonen, Finland The 2024–2025 Nikon Film and Photo Contest has announced its winners, spotlighting global creativity under the theme “Inspire.” Now in its 40th year, the competition drew entries from over 180 countries, showcasing the universal language of visual storytelling. With categories spanning Super-short Film, 5-Minute…

Source Colossal   As we spend much of our lives online and find ourselves ensnared in an increasingly dystopian reality, glitches and fractures seem all the more apt in rendering the contemporary mind. Kat Kristof (previously) attends to this disjointed—and even duplicitous—feeling in her vivid portraiture. Visible brushstrokes invoke gestures past and the memories that scaffold…

Source Colossal   Brooklyn, it’s your time to play with art. The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to ZeroSpace in Gowanus from November 6 to 9. This fall’s edition is more colorful, more daring, and more delightfully unpredictable than ever. With 125+ independent artists, immersive installations, and interactive moments around every corner, this…

Source Colossal   When we think of the European colonization of Africa, one period that comes to mind is an era during the mid- to late-1800s known as the Scramble for Africa. The British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese—predominantly—had already staked control of communities in coastal areas. It was during this time that inland regions became increasingly…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist and photographer John Hintz shares a collection of dazzling macro nature images with reversed colors. The post Featured Artist John Hintz appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and glass installations by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter at the gallery’s Paris location. This is the artist’s third show with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in 2023, following solo presentations at the…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Draw Them In, Paint Them Out presents the work of painter Philip Guston (American, b. Canada 1913–1980), the child of Jewish immigrants from Odessa (present-day Ukraine), and Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, b. 1974), a leading Black contemporary artist based in Houston, Texas, in dialogue for the first time.…

Source Design You Trust  Cesar Santos is a Cuban-American artist and portrait painter best known for his “Syncretism” series, which merges different artistic styles into a single, balanced composition. Born in Cuba in 1982, Santos immigrated to the United States, where he began his formal art education before traveling to Florence, Italy, to study classical…