Source Colossal   From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures. Forthcoming from Hoxton Mini Press with text by Imogen Fortes, Weird Buildings celebrates more than 100 norm-busting buildings ranging…

Source Colossal   Using the wood of silk trees, ebony, and embedded copper details, Donald Wasswa conjures bold forms evocative of imagined living beings. Based in Kampala, Uganda, Wasswa explores the relationships between—and evolution of—science, technology, society, and environmental transformation. Loosely resembling tentacled jellyfish yet somewhat unsettlingly dark and sharp, his sculptures evoke a distinctive tension…

Source Colossal   As the World’s Fair loomed on Chicago’s horizon, architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham built a 98-unit hotel to house visitors. After the exposition was finished, the Romanesque Revival building with a large central courtyard was converted into apartments and became known as Mecca Flats. Chicago adhered to strict segregation codes…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Les Veilleuses is about our loved ones. In her studio, Marguerite Piard revives the memory of their presence at her side, like ‘little lights on which to rely to face the night, to grow up, to no longer be afraid’. On the canvas, friends, family and lovers…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Surrogacy is the inspiration behind 2023 Bennett Prize winner Deng “Demo” Shiqing’s solo exhibition, Deng Shiqing: The Cost of Life. The paintings in this series were created during her two-year Bennett Prize grant and represent the freedoms it provided to explore new directions in how, and what, she creates.…

Source Colossal   From a musical bird to a wandering Scottish flower, a troupe of imaginative beings spring forth in a new short film created for Ffern, a fragrance maker based in Somerset. The company tapped London-based creative content studio Pal to create “A Ffern Fairtyale” celebrating storytelling, imagination, and the seasons. Pal organized several workshops…

Source Colossal   Several years ago, Danielle Clough ran across a vintage copy of Playboy at an antique shop. Unbeknownst to her at the time, the 1970s-era film photography, feathered hairstyles, and iconic—if stereotypical—advertising would influence a wide array of large-scale embroidery portraits. The Cape Town-based artist (previously) scoured the popular magazine’s pages in search of…

Source Colossal   For Danym Kwon, the concept of home is mutable. The artist (previously) recently relocated to San Jose from her native Seoul, having spent just a few years back in South Korea before realizing that she longed to return to the Bay Area where she lived while her children were young. “I may never…