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Murano Glass, an Ancient Art Revived
A new generation of artisans is adding to the long history of the Italian craft, known for its strange shapes, odd colors and secretive techniques.…
A new generation of artisans is adding to the long history of the Italian craft, known for its strange shapes, odd colors and secretive techniques.…
Joshua Davison’s three-dimensional hydrangeas and other blooms began as an exploration of color theory. “As my thought process and work has developed, these flower studies…
Tapping into the emotions associated with food and using humour, irony and intensity, artist Peter Anton creates large-scale sweets and treats to lure, charm, tease, disarm, and…
In a time when much of New York life has boiled down to the basic essentials, the flowers at the corner deli serve as an…
In her latest body of work, Swiss New York-based artist Angela Santana explores the implications connected to the historical representation of the female body and its lasting…
Mark Stevens, an art critic and Willem de Kooning scholar, titles his essay on the work of artist Jenny Saville with a famous line by…
Artist Bisa Butler creates colorful quilts that have a narrative twist. Identifying herself as “essentially a portrait artist who uses fibers and quilting as a medium,” she…
Chicago-born artist Harmonia Rosales says her striking portraits speak to “the part of me that has been the least represented in our society.” Rosales tells Colossal that…
Astronaut Terry Virts waited 10 years to go to space. The former Air Force pilot joined NASA in 2000, the year that the International Space…
Artist Daniel Arsham re-envisions some of the most well-recognized sculptures of classical antiquity in Paris, 3020, his recent series of replications marred with lightly pigmented crystals. Both…
Mexican artist Alberto Pazzi was inspired by "human connections, romantic delusions and cotton candy pink" for his latest pink-fused body of work. Based in New York City,…
Hailed as a countercultural icon, the filmmaker and photographer Ira Cohen used his art to “play with another self”, often through the lens of hallucinogenic…
The Dazed 100 alumnus debuts a new series of images that uses the Ken doll as its jump-off to talk about breaking down stereotypes Photographer Quil Lemons has…
Sotheby’s Artfully Adorned series celebrates the artists whose playful experimentations with scale, medium and motif have brought us delightfully untraditional wearable works of art. Lost…
Louise Daneels began creating her signature ceramic replicas of everyday objects during her master’s degree in illustration at KASK School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.…
This autumn, Tate Modern presents the first UK retrospective of the work of Dora Maar (1907–97) whose provocative photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism.…
Some people state that tarot cards were created by an unknown mystical being. Others claim they were used in ancient times as a tool to…
Inside her TriBeCa studio, artist Kathleen Ryan is creating ugly-beautiful critiques of excess. A SWARM OF fruit flies has gathered in Kathleen Ryan’s Manhattan studio, which…
In 1968, Andy Warhol carted a band of his Factory regulars—downtown New York cool kids—to the cacti-flecked desert outside Tucson, Arizona. They were there to shoot a…
The Kosciuszko Foundation is pleased to announce the launching of a new cultural initiative, Kosciuszko Projects, and its first exhibit: The Many Faces of Tamara de Lempicka. A…