Art

In the year of the Plinian Bimillenary, which Como celebrates in 2023 and 2024, the Como Arte Foundation, in collaboration with the Municipality of Como and the Accademia Pliniana, and under the patronage of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Two Thousandth Anniversary of the Birth of Pliny the Elder, pays homage to one of Como’s most illustrious …

Posted inSponsored New from Field of Vision, the short film brings the billionaire family into dialogue with those living the consequences of the opioid epidemic. New from Field of Vision, Kate Stonehill and Grace Harper’s short film The Family Statement uses never-before-seen messages drawn from a family WhatsApp group to construct a conversation between the billionaire Sackler clan and those …

A series focusing on the onlookers at the Bournemouth Airshow in 2022 by New York City-based photographer Casey Steffens. Taken while working on a personal project about a group of pilots and Wing Walkers in a small town in the UK, the series offers a subtle commentary on the peculiarity of looking: “It was like walking through a wax sculpture …

 Art Design #land art #nature #plants #site-specific #Ulf Mejergren November 21, 2023 Grace Ebert “Moss Hut.” All images © Ulf Mejergren, shared with permission Artist and architect Ulf Mejergren (previously) continues his interest in cozy, outdoor constructions with a new series titled Farm Art. Collaborating with farmer Robert Pettersson, Mejergren built several site-specific structures from materials found around Pettersson’s …

Whether we’re children or adults, we’ve all played the game of finding shapes in the clouds or in the surrounding landscape. This playful activity pushes us towards the momentary abstraction of a concrete form in order to transform it into another recognizable figure (a castle, a shooting star, a part of the human body). The cloud, hill or mountain thus …

The name “Rossetti” is often associated with paintings filled with women with dreamy gazes, flowing red hair, and sumptuous accessories. These works were produced by British artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882). Yet Gabriel, as he was known, was only one member of a larger Rossetti family whose contributions to 19th-century art and literature were vast. Organized in partnership with Tate …

 Art Craft #fashion #humor #Kendall Ross #knitting November 21, 2023 Kate Mothes “I would never wear this in public” (2022), hand-knit with wool the artist hand-dyed for Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City. All images © Kendall Ross, shared with permission Creating pieces that are part artwork and part fashion, Oklahoma City-based artist Kendall Ross of I’d Knit That imbues …

Highlighting artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area, “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” will comprise works by 39 intergenerational artists and groups, whose practices embrace craft, materiality, and collectivity. Organized by independent curator Diana Nawi and Hammer curator Pablo José Ramírez the exhibition is on view through December 31, 2023, and accompanied by an array of public …

Posted inCrosswords Protest at the Guggenheim, critics’ favorite quippy question, and which artist once said that “the dream world and the real world are the same”? From a Guggenheim protest to Brooklyn’s self-proclaimed anti-elitist art fair, this month’s clues might ring a bell. Try your hand at our condensed November crossword on the latest in art as the pre-holiday slump …

A series based on found objects that would otherwise be lost or abandoned by artist Sue Palmer Stone. “Embodiment — Salvaging A Self” represents an attempt to derive value out from detritus in an effort to establish a sense of harmony in a dissonant and increasingly fragile world. The project coincides with Stone’s struggles with an autoimmune condition that threatens …