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 Art #Gabriel Schama #geometric #reliefs #sculpture #wood August 24, 2023 Kate Mothes All images © Gabriel Schama, shared with permission Through a process of meticulous design, laser-cutting, and layering, Gabriel Schama creates incredibly detailed reliefs from thin plywood (previously). His work has focused on symmetrical, mandala-like forms with countless undulating patterns, and in recent years, he’s begun to explore …

“I love how the sun bleeds out” (all photos courtesy JoAnna Novak) When I first discovered my favorite writer, I had a hard time separating my admiration for her work from my desire to emulate her life. I didn’t just want to write like her — I wanted to be like her, calling her “my blueprint.” Borderline idolatry to be …

Born from the racial tensions that boiled over in 2020, the Black Image Center (BIC), a nonprofit cultural organization that recently acquired a community space in Culver City, California, is crowdfunding to keep its doors open and maintain its free programming and services for Black residents of Los Angeles County. The organization’s executive co-directors, Maya Mansour and Kalena Yiaueki, noted …

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has apologized for the museum and research complex’s bleak history of collecting human brains. Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that the majority of these physical remains had been taken from deceased Indigenous and Black individuals without prior knowledge or consent from them or their families. The investigation was led by Post …

Earlier this week, archaeologists in Pompeii announced the recent discovery of furniture and other objects in a room that may have belonged to enslaved people in the Ancient Roman villa of Civita Giuliana. Published in a report co-authored by the archaeological park’s director Gabriel Zuchtriegel and fellow researcher Chiara A. Corbino, the new finds give more detailed insight into the …

Stipan Tadić, “Smoker – 20th Ave” (2022), oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches (all images courtesy James Fuentes Gallery) For most of 2022, Stipan Tadić rode the D train from Coney Island to the Bronx and back as he meticulously explored each stop, retracing the route countless times in search of perfect scenes for his series of New York …

KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic — From April 1992 to February 1996, the city of Sarajevo was besieged as part of the Bosnian War. Over the course of four horrifying years, near 14,000 people lost their lives to intense artillery bombardment, more than a third of whom were civilians. During this time, somewhat astonishingly, numerous filmmakers in Sarajevo refused to put …

 Art #art history #games #humor August 23, 2023 Grace Ebert All images via Clone-a Lisa It took Leonardo da Vinci four years to paint the “Mona Lisa,” so how well can you recreate the portrait in just one minute? The creators behind Vole.wtf recently released “Clone-a Lisa,” an interactive game that challenges users to forge the art historical masterpiece …

Sharing the Same Breath brings together nine artists who consider human, nonhuman, and interspecies forms of kinship and connectivity in their work. The exhibition is on view through April 21, 2024, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The centerpiece of the show is Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s large fabric she-wolf sculpture, “Each/Other”. The artists …

 Photography Science #animals #fish #Laurent Ballesta #oceans #wildlife August 23, 2023 Kate Mothes All images © Laurent Ballesta, shared with permission The earth’s oceans are mindbogglingly expansive, and less than 20 percent has been mapped, explored, or seen by humans. For Laurent Ballesta, the underwater world provides an endless stream of remarkable aquatic personalities. The French photographer seeks exciting formations …