Source artforum.com  In the aftermath of World War II—and the cataclysmal effects of the atomic bomb—pop culture became inundated by exaggerated tales of violence and anomie, as seen in a slew of best-selling crime and

Source Colossal   Carya hickory sections. All images © Jonas Frei, shared with permission During a visit to the Zürich arboretum, Jonas Frei came across a nut species rarely found in Europe. The Juglans cinerea, or white walnut, is native to the U.S. and Canada and has a ribbed, oblong shell that once cracked, reveals a…

Source artforum.com  Eugenie Tsai, who since 2007 has served as senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, on May 18 announced via Instagram that she is departing the institution. Tsai, who oversaw a number

Source artforum.com  The Brazilian Pavilion has been announced as the recipient of the Eighteenth Venice Architecture Biennale’s prestigious Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The prizewinning exhibition, “Terra”

Source artforum.com  Jeff Perrone, a founding figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, died this spring in New York at the age of sixty-nine. His death was confirmed by artist Elaine Reichek, his longtime friend.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  JK5’s The Force of Other at Three Kings Studio in New York features work that has been brought to life in an all-new magnitude, in physical scale, motion, and energy as he continues to explore his obsession with reimagined writing systems. Recent work brought him back to his favorite…

Source artforum.com  Magali Reus’s latest exhibition, “Le plat principal” (The Main Course), serves up three interconnected bodies of work that transform common objects through varied methods of hybridization to produce

Source Colossal   All images © Ellis Moseley, shared with permission courtesy of Hugo Michell Gallery Through a methodical and labor-intensive process of layering petals of thin clay, Adelaide-based artist Ellis Moseley creates elegant, airy vessels that appear to flutter where they sit. Using paper-clay slip—a fine-grained, lightweight, and durable ceramic medium made from mixing clay slip…