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Dan Bowers makes tiny found-object sculptures for his wife

Dan Bowers creates enchanting sculptures from found objects for his wife. He shared photos of the mini artworks in this video on his Instagram page. The video is captioned "I make these little sculptures for my wife to express my affection". — Read the rest

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Expositions : « Michel-Ange, Rodin, corps vivants », « Marilyn Monroe : cent ans ! », « Calder, rêver en équilibre »… Nos conseils sorties de la semaine

« Michel-Ange, Rodin, corps vivants », deux géants dans la lumièreMichelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) était pour lui un « magicien » : lorsque Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) se rend à Florence, en mars 1876,...

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Snake way for ducklings

This is the mascot for Boston Python. It’s called Snake Way for Ducklings:

My son Ben drew it, which makes me very happy. He also drew Sleepy Snake. Wearing this image on a shirt around PyCon, I had to explain it a number of times. People in Boston understand it almost immediately, but others need more background.

In 1941, Robert McCloskey wrote a children’s book called Make Way for
Ducklings.…

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Jeremy Olson Builds a Wondrous World in the Hermès Madison Avenue Windows

Image by Skot Yobauje Dream logic--or, more specifically, the imagination of Jeremy Olson--governs the world currently within the windows of Hermes Madison Avenue. There, the Ojai-born, Brooklyn-based artist has assembled a playfully surreal portal between elevated domestic space and anthropomorphic puppet show. Represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami and Unit London in the U.K., […]

70+ ARTISTS IN 30+ VENUES HOST 33rd ANNUAL WEST OF MAIN ART WALK Explore Vancouver’s West Side this May

For one weekend only, Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31 2026, artists across Vancouver’s West Side will once again open their studio doors and gather at satellite venues to welcome the public into their creative spaces. From internationally acclaimed artists to emerging local talent, the West of Main Art Walk offers a rare opportunity ... Read more

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Photographers Are Livid About a Photo Festival’s Camera-Busting Rage Room

The Belfast Photo Festival is still over a week from starting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but it has already instigated serious outrage among photographers. The Belfast Photo Festival will include a major interactive public exhibition that invites visitors to pick up a hammer and destroy "obsolete" cameras, and not everyone is on board.

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David Haskell’s Solo Sculpture Debut, “Boom Beach”

Weathered formations, wilting cake stands, and figurative assemblages in ceramic and bronze, as well as cast and blown glass at Donzella Ltd. Courtesy of Eric McNatt In a sunlit corner of the gallery Donzella Ltd., on the 15th floor of the New York Design Center, artist and editor David Haskell's debut solo sculpture exhibition, "Boom […]

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Ghostly girl sculptures haunt the woods at Jupiter Artland

This ethereal, spooky sculpture garden at Jupiter Artland is by artist Laura Ford. The sculptures show ghostly girls standing amongst the trees with their hair covering their faces. There is something obviously horror-movie-esque about them, but they also feel like friendly ghosts. — Read the rest

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Gabriel de la Mora: trances through yuxtaposition

Through a meticulous and almost ritualistic process, Gabriel de la Mora takes the debris of fragile materials left by the passage of time and transforms them into pieces of the impossible, where time moves forward or backward between the abstract and the formal. TWS- I am interested in your concept of “visual dyslexia” regarding the optical illusions linked to scales, oppositions, and…

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For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life’s Mysteries and Its Multitudes

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]

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In the Guggenheim’s Spiral, Carol Bove’s Sculptures Find Room to Play (Article & Video)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling rotunda at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a notorious diva, a space that routinely swallows the contemporary art it is meant to display.

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Lauren Halsey’s Sculpture Park Is an Architectural Offering to South Central Los Angeles

With help from L.A.-based design studios Current Interests and Green House, a 10,000-square-foot lot has become a landscaped courtyard garden with a host of free public programming Courtesy of Allen Chen At the corner of Western Avenue and 76th Street in South Central Los Angeles, a 10,000-square-foot lot has been vacant of a permanent structure […]

‘Fair thee well Stromness’ A last chance to see new works by John Barry

Reflecting the bedrock of Stromness the drawings and sculptures by artist John Barry show an elemental beauty and energy embodying a granite landscape. The one that obsessed John was made by man, a granite quarry now closed for three generations, caught forever in the periphery of memory. Influenced by poetry, folklore and language the works […]

‘The Poor Stone’ : Exhibition at Northlight

The next exhibition at the Northlight Gallery, Stromness, is of sculptures and drawings by John Barry. The new drawings and sculptures by John Barry show a Celtic landscape, one made by man, a granite quarry on a desolate peninsula, now closed for three generations, caught forever in the periphery of memory. The exhibitions, ‘The Poor […]

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Giant sock monkey sculpture becomes world's largest soft toy artwork

A massive sock monkey created by Emilia Evans-Munton has earned a spot in Guinness World Records as the largest sculpture of its kind. The 22-year-old artist built the enormous textile creature for her degree show at the Glasgow School of Art. — Read the rest

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The world's largest prairie chicken, explained

In Rothsay, Minnesota, you can see the world's largest prairie chicken sculpture. This wonderful giant chicken stands 13 feet high, 18 feet long, and weighs a whopping 9,000 pounds. It stands with its head bowed, on top of a plaque. — Read the rest

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The Cross-sectioned Paper Sculptures of Lisa Nilsson

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!

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Weekly Inspiration: Willem de Haan

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Willem de Haan @thankswillem Willem de Haan stacks street garbage in Berlin into totems. He works with actual waste and materials nobody really wants. That’s what discarded looks like. Now ask yourself: what are we “collage artists” working mostly with? Vintage magazines from the ’50s, ephemera hunted on eBay , old book pages carefully preserved and archived. Printed…

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