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    ‘I Never Think of Photography as Recording Life’: Watch Artist Barbara Kasten Blend Pictures Into Mind-Bending Constructivist Compositions

    What is a photograph, really? Is it simply an image on a two-dimensional surface? What if it could be more? These are some of the questions the Chicago-born artist Barbara Kasten seeks to pose and answer in her complex photographic works, which straddle printmaking, sculpture, and textile combinations.  Kasten’s first exposure to art was through a […] More

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    To Mark World Autism Awareness Day, Apple Is Unveiling a New Digital Gallery for iPad-Created Artworks by Artists on the Spectrum

    Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and Apple is marking the occasion by posting a digital art gallery of works created by artists on the autism spectrum, all using the iPad and Apple Pencil. The project, which is curated by the nonprofit the Art of Autism, will be unveiled over the course of April, which […] More

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    Artists From Do Ho Suh to Alex Da Corte Interpret the Meaning of Home in a Timely Exhibition in Dallas—See It Here

    “For a Dreamer of Houses”Dallas Art Museum What the museum says: “‘For a Dreamer of Houses,’ an imaginative and immersive exhibition, explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires. …The featured artists use forms derived from dwellings or furnishings to investigate ideas including belonging, alienation, fantasy, […] More

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    “Run Away” by D*Face in Madrid

    British artist Dean Stockton, aka D*Face, recently finished working on a large new piece in the streets of Madrid. The piece features some of D*Face’s signature imagery in form of a young winged-lady accompanied by her beau. D*Face has grabbed contemporary art scene by the throat. With his inexhaustible mind full of ideas and endless creativity, […] More

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    Artist Interview: Oli Epp

    Oli Epp’s paintings circulate a number of themes to do with the tragicomic element of living in the 21st century society, dealing with the complexity of identity and anxieties living in the digital age; consumerism and consumption which leads to control and addiction, anxiety and conflict. Last week, I reached Oli Epp to talk about […] More

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    El Greco Defied the Odds to Become One of the Most Pathbreaking Painters in Art History. See Why His Work Endures Here

    “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance”Art Institute of Chicago What the museum says: “Since El Greco’s death, writers, critics, and other observers have struggled with how and where to situate him. Was he a Byzantine icon painter transformed by the artistic revolution of the Italian Renaissance? A social climber desperately seeking noble patronage? A devout believer […] More

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    “Luminessenza” by Crisa in Sardinia, Italy

    Italian artist Federico Carta, also known as, Crisa just finished another work in Sardinia. He has been inspired by dumping grounds and abandoned cities where nature awaked and took back the space. Experimenting with techniques and materials, Crisa developed a personal style of research, in which his paintings deal with degradation and environmental themes utilising […] More

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    April Fool Project by David Shrigley

    Meet Project teamed up with English artist and illustrator David Shrigley to bring April Fool Project. Self-branded as an outsider in the art world, Shrigley is known for making flat compositions that take on the inconsequential, the bizarre, and the disquieting elements of everyday life. Like the musings of a very wise child displaying the […] More