Source Design You Trust  Ah, the good old days when kids were kids, and danger was just another word for fun. The 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of BMX riding, where the biggest thrills came from launching oneself off makeshift ramps, pulling gravity-defying stunts, and risking life and limb for the ultimate adrenaline…

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 artforum.com  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California (BAMPFA) has announced the appointment of three new senior curators. Margot Norton, currently Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at

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  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  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  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,…