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New Art Museum Survey Shows Staff Diversity Increasing
Source artforum.com The Mellon Foundation in its third survey of museums across the United States and Canada reported that diversity among staff at arts institutions has increased across the board since it conducted similar
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Adjunct Professors at New School and Parsons School of Design Stage Strike
Source artforum.com Part-time faculty at New York’s New School and at the Parsons School of Design, which it encompasses, on November 16 ceased teaching and took to the streets to protest low wages, job precarity, and
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A follow-up to The Clock, twelve years later
Source artforum.com Christian Marclay likes to play with doors. His early sculpture Armoire, 1988; the door slamming in Video Quartet, 2002; and his series of screen prints Door (The Electric Chair), 2006, are just a
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Oversized Animal Sculptures by Quentin Garel Weigh the Prideful Pursuit of Hunting for Sport
Source Colossal All images © Quentin Garel and Galerie LJ, shared with permission Through oversized faces of primates and busts of elephant calf and cow, French artist Quentin Garel examines the pomp and gratuitous impulse behind hunting for sport. His large-scale sculptures cast in bronze or carved from wood evoke taxidermied trophies of wild animals. Often scaled…
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Srijon Chowdhury
Source artforum.com Srijon Chowdhury’s debut solo museum exhibition metes out dizzying variations in style, genre, and scale. Yet his work’s coherence around the themes of life, death, and myth anchors the viewer. Visitors
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DesignerCon2022 Returns with Spanning Physical and Digital Programming
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home DesignerCon has amassed an undeniable community of loyal and enthusiastic followers. Over the last 17 years, they have been dedicated to the pursuit of and appreciation for art toys, eagerly celebrating the newest releases. This year, DesignerCon provides a plethora of new and exciting, supported by returning…
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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes
Source Colossal All images © Keita Morimoto, shared with permission In Keita Morimoto’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. Working in acrylic and oil, the Japanese artist explores the scenes of daily commutes, walks with friends, and trips to a vending…
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Balloon-Like Sculptures Reimagine Blown Glass in Matthew Szösz’s ‘Inflatables’ Series
Source Colossal “untitled(inflatable)no. 33.” All images © Matthew Szösz, shared with permission The art of blown glass takes on new meaning in Matthew Szösz’s Inflatables series. About 15 years ago, the artist was interested in challenging assumptions about how the material could be worked and what form it could take. “In the craft and design…
