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 Art #Choi + Shine Architects #community art #crochet #installation #lace #public art July 26, 2024 Grace Ebert “The Urchins,” Marina Bay, Singapore. All images © Choi + Shine Architects, shared with permission Whether working in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Fukuoka City, Japan, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine have found that crochet is a universal language. The pair engage communities around …

“Lighter Than Air” is an exhibition by Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The duo’s debut at the gallery brings together their latest installations, videos, and drawings. Kim and Mader’s collaborative practice has long been centered around themes such as signed and spoken languages, Deaf history, games and word play. Approaching the complexities of communication with specificity and nuance, their …

Police were called to Manhattan’s Greene Naftali gallery on Tuesday evening, July 23, after an autonomous group of activists disrupted a book event for an exhibition on the late German filmmaker Harun Farocki. Ten anonymous activists unfurled banners and handed out fliers at an event promoting the newly published book Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence by film scholar Nora M. …

 Art Craft Design #ceramics #Jessica Thompson-Lee #sculpture July 25, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © Jessica Thompson-Lee, shared with permission Jessica Thompson-Lee twists the age-old design principle of form following function with her biomorphic ceramics. Evocative of cellular structures, coral, and mycelium networks, handles appear to grow from Thompson-Lee’s mugs, sprawling outward into lattice-like webs that require users to …

“The Hollow And The Receptive” is a group-exhibition co-curated by Bianca Chu, featuring Covey Gong, Joanne Burke, Jeffery Camp, Lenz Geerk, Derek Jarman, and Paul Thek. The exhibition takes its title from the writings of Sufi mystic, musician and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan: “Life is just like the ocean. When there is no appreciation, no receptivity, [one] sinks like a …

United States Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) during a House floor session yesterday evening, July 23. Republican Josh Brecheen had proposed two amendments to the Fiscal Year 2025 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that would have …

 Illustration #editorial #Eiko Ojala #paper July 24, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Eiko Ojala, shared with permission Eiko Ojala’s vivid illustrations (previously) possess a distinctive flair evocative of paper-cut assemblages and textural collage. Working with some of the most prominent publications in today’s media landscape, the artist creates visuals for editorial assignments that focus on a vast scope …

The project “Dipinti” is hosted in Capsule’s Project Room 1. Teoldi’s homages to the language of painting, no matter whether in his newest oil on canvas pieces or his gouaches on paper, are expansive and resonant. On this occasion, the artist—who studied photography, first in Milan and then in New York, and who, in recent years, has come to prominence …

WASHINGTON, DC — In protest of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United States Congress today, Wednesday, July 24, thousands of activists flooded the streets in massive rallies against the Israeli leader’s ongoing attacks on Gaza. Demonstrators calling for Netanyahu’s arrest and the end of US aid to Israel were able to bring parts of the city to a halt despite …

A series chronicling an unconscious search for familial connection by Toronto-based photographer Angela Lewis. “Places We’ve Never Been” explores the connection between Lewis’ late grandma and the older women she has photographed throughout the years. Triggered by a chance encounter in Vancouver, Angela realized she has been drawn to photographing women alone in nature. The portraits, always taken from behind, …