[ad_1]  Art Craft Nature #bamboo #insects #Noriyuki Saitoh #sculpture #wood August 29, 2024 Kate Mothes Acrocinus longimanus (harlequin beetle), bamboo. All images © Noriyuki Saitoh, shared with permission Noriyuki Saitoh’s (previously) fascination with insects and painstaking attention to detail transforms delicate pieces of wood into intricate sculptures. Using a range of bamboo materials, including […]

[ad_1] Seed art by Mary Beth Leone-Getten at the Minnesota State Fair (all photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From a rotating gallery of butter sculptures to a hall bursting with quilts and embroidery, the annual Minnesota State Fair is always awash with creative endeavors. But the line is always the longest at the […]

[ad_1]  Art Film History #assemblage #found objects #L.V. Hull #painting August 29, 2024 Grace Ebert L.V. Hull at her home in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 2002. Photo by Bruce West. All images courtesy of the L.V. Hull Legacy Center, shared with permission Kosciusko is a small town in the center of Mississippi with just under […]

[ad_1] The history of the Salon, the juried exhibitions that defined European art trends from the 17th through the 19th centuries, can be told from the perspective of the artists who were included — or, if you want a juicier story, the artists who were left out. None other than Édouard Manet had his painting […]

[ad_1] COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Hema Shironi was, rather unusually in Sri Lanka, raised both Catholic and Hindu. Due to her father’s career as an (outspoken) government official in the early 1990s and 2000s, she had lived in four of the country’s nine provinces by her 20s. Trained at the University of Jaffna, a college […]

[ad_1]  Film #archaeology #documentary #humor #short film #Stolen Sun August 29, 2024 Grace Ebert  Lew Blink is a self-proclaimed “dumpster archeologist,” meaning he plunges into trash bins and waste receptacles to unearth objects that piece together a story about someone’s life. Like other researchers, Blink creates collections of finds devoted to specific people—like […]

[ad_1] LONDON — “No sooner blown, but blasted.” I am standing on a landing outside a locked gray bedroom door when this phrase swims into my head. It is from a poem written by the English poet John Milton between 1625 and 1626, and it is about a primrose, a flower of spring. Behind the […]

[ad_1]  Art Nature #Brie Ruais #ceramics #sculpture August 28, 2024 Grace Ebert “Gesturing for Her to Follow (130lbs times two)” (2024), glazed stoneware and hardware, 112 x 101 x 3 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and albertz benda, New York|Los Angeles, shared with permission Beginning with 130 pounds of soft clay, Brie […]

[ad_1] DIJON, France — “In a fabric, the intersection of thread during its weaving establishes an unbreakable pact between the two opposed and distinct entities, the warp and the weft, and this pact is reaffirmed at every crossing thousands of times over.” So begins Isabella Ducrot’s The Checkered Cloth (La stoffa a quadri), a slim […]

[ad_1]  Film August 27, 2024 Grace Ebert  For the first time in nearly a decade, the duo behind the wildly popular YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting is back with a new lesson in cinematography. Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou began releasing short videos breaking down visual concepts and techniques in 2014, teaching […]