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Blanton Museum of Art Acquires 5,000+ Works by Latino Artists
Source artforum.com The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, announced that it has acquired 5,650 works from the Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia Collection, one of the world’s largest assemblies
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Jeff Wall
Source artforum.com There is a figure in Jeff Wall’s light-box photograph, The Old Prison, 1987, that is easy to miss. In reproductions, he is barely visible, lost in the long and protracted expansiveness of the panorama.
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Mellon Foundation Commits $125 Million to Art Projects Centering Mass Incarceration
Source artforum.com The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced the launch of its Imagining Freedom initiative, a $125 million effort aimed at supporting artistic development among those negatively affected by the US
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The Tatra 97: A Futuristic Mid-Size Car That Met an Untimely End
Source Design You Trust The Tatra 97, or T97, was a mid-size car built by Tatra in Kopřivnice, Moravia from 1936 to 1939. Despite its futuristic design and unique features, only around 500 units were produced. Unfortunately, the car’s production came to an abrupt end due to the outbreak of the Second World War, specifically…
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Endangered Animals Dissolve and Reassemble in Thomas Medicus’s Anamorphic Glass Sculpture
Source Colossal Depending on which direction you approach from, you may encounter a lynx, a bee, a kingfisher, or a river trout in Austria-based Thomas Medicus’s new public installation. Moving around the work, one image gradually dissolves into abstract strips of color before a different creature assembles on another side. Known for his anamorphic sculptures…
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After Sitting in Storage for More Than Three Decades, an Art Amusement Park Is Finally Going On Tour
Source Colossal Walls and a carousel designed by Keith Haring. All images courtesy of Phaidon In the summer of 1987, a carnival like no other popped up for thirteen weeks on a public green in Hamburg, Germany. Walking through a gate featuring an oversized painting by Sonia Delaunay, visitors entered the world of Luna Luna,…
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It’s Your Last Call! The A’ Design Awards & Competition Wants Your Designs!
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home When we last spoke on the subject last week, we gave you a chance to get your designs ready for the annual and prestigious A’ Design Awards. AKA, the worlds’ largest design competition awarding best designs over the past year. Well, did you get them ready? Did you? Because…
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Director Zelfira Tregulova Pushed Out of Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery
Source artforum.com Art historian Zelfira Tregulova, who led the state Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow since 2015, has been forced out of her job. Tregulova told Russia’s National State News that the Russian Ministry of Culture
