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Undulating Volumes of Rattan Wind Through the Interior of a Chiang Mai Gallery
Source Colossal All images by William Barrington Binns, © Enter Projects Asia In South East Asia where palm trees grow abundantly, rattan has traditionally provided a source of sustainable, affordable, and adaptable material for everything from homewares and furniture to sports equipment and crafts. Architecture firm Enter Projects Asia (previously) has transformed an art gallery in…
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1,300 Oil Paintings Flow Through a Dreamlike Animated Music Video for The Beatles
Source Colossal London-based animator Em Cooper captures the hazy daze of slipping from wakefulness to slumber in a new music video for The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping.” The short animation stitches together 1,300 oil paintings on celluloid that swirl and twist from one scene of euphoric stupor to the next. “We used to listen to this song…
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Delicate Slivers of Air-Dry Clay Form Breezy, Idyllic Landscapes by Alisa Lariushkina
Source Colossal All images © Alisa Lariushkina, shared with permission One can almost feel the breeze as it swishes through grasslands and ripples streams in the swirling textures of artist Alisa Lariushkina’s bucolic landscapes. Based in Vilnius, the artist draws inspiration from earlier works or from photographs that people share with her. Composed from delicate…
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Shaped Like a Mushroom Cap, This Sustainable Pendant Lamp Is Grown from Fungi
Source Colossal All images © Myceen, shared with permission Fungi isn’t usually something we welcome indoors, but Estonian studio Myceen sees home decoration a bit differently. Focusing on furniture and interior design products, the team has found an enlightening application for mycelium, the fibrous root-like system produced by fungus that spreads below the Earth’s surface…
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The NFT Explain Me with Marina Galperina and Amy Whitaker
Source: Art F City Beeple (b. 1981), EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, 2021. Non-fungible token (jpg). 21,069 x 21,069 pixels (319,168,313 bytes). Minted on 16 February 2021. Starting Bid: $100. Hammer price: 6.6 million. Offered as a single lot sale concurrently with First Open. Online, 25 February to 11 March On this episode of Explain…
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Goodbye 2020, Goodbye R.M. Vaughan
Source: Art F City Documentation of R.M. Vaughan’s “Super-Diviner” (2014) at Videofag, Toronto Some experiences I wish I could recall with clarity vanish almost as soon as they occur. Artist and writer RM Vaughan’s “Super-Diviner” (2014) performance marks one such instance: an unusually perceptive tarot reading I still regret not committing to memory. Held at…
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Explain me With Art Critic Ben Davis: The Year That Wasn’t, Part Two
Source: Art F City In this episode of Explain Me, we continue our conversation with Artnet’s National Critic Ben Davis as we take stock of 2020. In this episode: We discuss the biases of algorithm sorting Ben Davis coins the term cultural inflation, a term that refers to franchise media properties. We examine the relevance…
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Explain Me With Art Critic Ben Davis: The Year That Wasn’t, Part One