Source artforum.com  In his 1977 Christmas Lectures at London’s Royal Institution, Carl Sagan described the possibility of communication with extraterrestrials, declaring, “One thing you’d have to do first is to be sure

Source Design You Trust  Orlando Bloom Once upon a time, a person’s surname revealed their occupation. It was simple, straightforward, and a bit boring. For instance, if your name was Smith, chances were high that you were hammering away at metal all day long. But in this day and age, life is a little more…

Source Colossal   “Cross My Mind” (2020), porcelain, fake grass, and trees, 11.8 × 11.8 × 5.5 inches. All images © Johnson Tsang, shared with permission Through contorted figures, Johnson Tsang continues to stretch the limits of human consciousness as he blurs the boundary between the real and surreal. The Hong Kong-based artist has spent decades sculpting works in ceramic…

Source artforum.com  THE SELF-PORTRAIT ISN’T THERE. Otherwise, the heist is going fine. Willem Dafoe has breached the penthouse, thwarted the alarm, located two fairly chaste but still pricey Schieles. There’s just one

Source Colossal   Friends show off their art purchases at The Other Art Fair in Barker Hangar. All photos by Timothy Musho Your average art experience might look like this: a sparse selection of art on display, out-of-budget, eerily quiet, and overall a bit underwhelming. The Other Art Fair aims to shake this up and is heading to…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Cheryl McDonald presents a collection of fantastical scenes created in graphite and colored pencil. See more of her surreal artwork on her website.     I was raised in a small town by two loving parents who came from small town backgrounds. Visiting art galleries was a rarity and art was…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Over the course of six years, artist Michal Chelbin gained unprecedented access in order to photograph male and female inmates in seven prisons across Ukraine and Russia. Not wanting to be influenced by knowledge of her subjects’ crimes, she focused on the complicated gaze of the prisoners,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  If there was ever an example of the global spread and phenomenon that is Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow, we can look no further than the works of Luciano Sanchez. Born in the late 1970s in Granada, Spain, Sanchez ironically was influenced by a movement happening on the…