Tag: Life
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20+ projects brought to life through the Book Award
As we approach the deadline for this year’s Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award, we’re taking a moment to look back at the 20+ projects we’ve helped bring to life as real printed books and zines over the past few years. Seeing them all together is pretty special. Every year, we’re blown away by the read more
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Life & Death: The Skull Flower Paintings of Dark Artist Chet Zar – Hi-Fructose Magazine
It wasn’t simply a matter of the paintings selling, the audience was interacting with the Skullflower series too. For example, Zar didn’t set out to paint flowers and skulls as a means of discussing life and death, but his audience picked up on the subtext quickly. Life & Death became the title of Zar’s 2024 read more
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Baumgartner Restoration Painstakingly Brings a Neglected Portrait Back to Life
“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was read more
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Hilary Pecis Paints Saturated Snapshots of West Coast Life
In Love Letters, Hilary Pecis captures the mundane moments and under-appreciated views of daily life. The Los Angeles-based artist presents a suite of new acrylic paintings in her signature saturated style, focusing on snippets of a backyard pool, the corner of a studio worktop, and a friendly picnic complete with a radiant strawberry cake. Pecis read more
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Janusz Jurek Embraces the Weirdness of Everyday Life in Captivating Street Photographs
Humor and happenstance take the front seat in Polish photographer Janusz Jurek’s wry images. Working as a graphic designer and commercial photographer by day, he finds the greatest creative freedom in the candid and incidental—the things he notices as he moves about town, travels, and attends festivals and other events. These are the places where read more
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Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington's Portraits
There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For read more
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Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms
After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were read more
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Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner
Announcement This exhibition at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Susan Kleckner,“Untitled” (© Susan Kleckner Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archive Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries) More than four decades after she helped shape feminist film and performance, Susan read more
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In 'Altai,' Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in Mongolia
In the Bayan-Ölgii province of western Mongolia, Kazakh Mongolians are the largest ethnic group. The sparsely populated nation abuts the Altai Mountains, some of which belong to Russia and China and across which sits Kazakhstan. Over the past several decades, migration between Kazakhstan and Mongolia has increased due to changing political climates, trade, and tourism. read more
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Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year's Ocean Art Photography Contest
Off the deep waters of Kumejima, Japan, Steven Kovacs captured an image that would be awarded Best in Show for the 2025 Ocean Art Photography Contest. Traveling to the Okinawa prefecture in the hopes of encountering a scarcely documented species of larval goosefish, Kovacs spent nearly two weeks blackwater diving before photographing the rare moment. read more
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John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life
I was on my way to one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibitions when something unexpected stopped me: John Wilson’s “Self-Portrait” (2002). This haunting, abraded pastel and paint work is part of the revelatory exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. A longtime resident of Boston, a city that never developed an read more
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Novo Nordisk Foundation backs BioInnovation Institute with €736M to scale life sciences and deeptech innovation
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has allocated up to €736 million (DKK 5.5 billion) to BioInnovation Institute (BII), a leading institute for life science and deep tech innovation in Copenhagen. The funding will enable BII to expand its activities into new strategic areas and geographies, and support even more entrepreneurs and startups, strengthening innovation in Denmark read more
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An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum
When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and read more
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Another Time, Another Space: The Art and Life of Rammellzee – Hi-Fructose Magazine
WRITING, ALPHABETS, TYPOGRAPHIES ARE ALL UBIQUITOUS ELITE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE LOWERED THEMSELVES INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE THEY ADAPT YOU TO THEIR HABIT, THEIR REFLEX, THEIR PERCEPTION. THE PRIZE? CONTROL OF THE MEANS OF PERCEPTION.” Both of these projects were made from found materials. The Letter Racers were smaller, built up off skateboard decks or objects read more
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