Design #light #Nanako Kume #pencils #video #wood September 22, 2022 Grace Ebert All images © Nanako Kume, shared with permission Nanako Kume’s pendant lights would look perfectly at home in an elementary classroom or art studio. The Tokyo-based designer is behind a playful collection of fixtures that layers colored-pencil-style wood shavings into whimsical lampshades....
On Wednesday, September 21, 24 members of the Power Plant board of directors resigned en masse in response to their parent organization Harbourfront’s alleged attempt to terminate and replace 12 members of the board. The only remaining members left on the board of the Toronto contemporary art center are two Harbourfront directors, including CEO Marah Braye....
Portuguese artist Odeith is currently in Los Angeles where he teamed up with Branded Arts to create a new mural showing Kobe Bryant, Gigi Bryant and Black Mamba. This mural pays tribute to the power of inspiration, which Kobe used in the stories he told with his company Granity Studios. The completed project “GRANA” is...
Art #Amber Cowan #flowers #found objects #glass #narrative #sculpture September 23, 2022 Grace Ebert “Fountain with Fans in River and Jade” (2022), flameworked American pressed glass, mixed media, 22 x 19 x 6 1/2 inches. All images courtesy of Heller Gallery, shared with permission In her solo show Gathering the Sky, Mining the Milk, Amber Cowan emphasizes...
Apitatán is an Ecuadorian artist who paints everyday stories, an artist by conviction and a true creative by nature. Apitatán’s artwork transforms forgotten urban spaces in to reflections that remind us to laugh at ourselves, something that does us good. Mural painted in the traditional neighborhood of la Tola, where his grandfather lived and grew up,...
Design Science #oceans #plastic #pollution #video September 22, 2022 Grace Ebert Sadly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a wide swath of ocean between the U.S. coast and Japan is an enormous vortex of trash. A gyre, or system of currents, surrounds the area and sucks debris and litter into its rotation, trapping...
Far up in the north of Sweden, Kiruna, a mining town inside the Arctic Circle, is relocating its entire central district due to expanding mining operations. As the locals prepare to say goodbye to an area that’s been downtown for more than a 100 years, Artscape is preparing a mural project based on the people...
Art Documentary History #abstract #art history #Hilma af Klint #painting #video September 21, 2022 Grace Ebert Released in 2020, an acclaimed documentary serves as a corrective to the art historical record. Beyond the Visible spotlights the life and work of the pioneering Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), an obscure figure during her lifetime whose...
French artist Thomas Canto have collaborated with ArtPort for his latest limited edition artwork entitled “Intersections”. Intersections is an edition created in the line of the body of work Structural Reflections. These works present a vision of infinite rhythms, verticality, and visual harmony. They also refer to ideas of alienation or loss of bearings. These are sensations that anyone can...
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