Category: Galleries
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Mexico City Art Week’s Inspiring Highlights
[ad_1] Innovative, impressive art, design and architecture—both local and international Courtesy of Nilufar There can be no discussion of Mexico City Art Week without first mentioning the magnitude of Zona Maco, the art fair that anchors it all. There are no greater highlights than the Mexican and Latin American galleries exhibiting within Zona Maco, many…
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Frieze Seoul: Spotlight on South Korean Galleries and Artists
[ad_1] Six highlights from the second edition of the prestigious fair Installation view of Frieze Seoul 2023 (Booth B19) at COEX, Korea. Image courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery. Photo: Hyunjung Rhee More than 70,000 visitors, drawn from 36 countries, passed through the halls of this year’s inspiring second edition of Frieze Seoul. Hosted inside of…
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Majestic Bodies – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] If there was any doubt before, 2023’s ZONA MACO has proven that the art world has fallen in love with CDMX. This year’s record-breaking edition attracted over 77,000 international visitors and featured 216 exhibitors from 26 countries, solidly cementing the festival as Latin America’s hottest art affair. It has been a kind of renaissance after the restrictions…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Homes that self-regulate temperature, airplanes converted into residences, two powerful art exhibits and more Fusing Cinematic Motion-Capture and AI to Treat Movement Disorders Researchers at the University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London are exploring how motion-capture technology and AI can work in tandem to treat disorders that impair movement. The two-pronged approach…
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Arts and Culture in Memphis, Tennessee – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] As the place Aretha Franklin, Issac Hayes and Al Green called home and one of the formative sites for blues and rock’n’roll, Memphis, Tennessee has history and culture in its veins. It’s no wonder then that the city has an inspiring music, theater and arts scene, comprised of local and international creatives; all of…
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“Image Capital” at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In Bologna, Italy’s Fondazione MAST, the Image Capital exhibition (on now through 8 January 2023) encourages viewers to discover photography as information technology. Curated by Francesco Zanot, the show—which is grouped into six sections: Memory, Access, Protection, Mining, Currency and Imaging—was conceived by photographer Armin Linke and photography historian Estelle Blaschke. Through prints, magazines,…
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Beyond the Art Fairs – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Anchored by the expansive, ever-inspiring Art Basel Miami Beach and the the illuminating Design Miami showcase nearby, Miami Art Week further flourishes thanks to the continued presence of Untitled, NADA, Scope and other powerful art and design fairs. To participate in this exhaustive artistic extravaganza and not step into one of Miami’s own world-class, permanent institutions is not only…
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Dreamsong Gallery’s Rebecca Heidenberg and Greg Smith on the Twin Cities Art Scene – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Five years ago, Rebecca Heidenberg and Greg Smith moved from NYC to Minneapolis, “essentially sight unseen.” The couple was seeking change, but it was Smith’s acceptance to the University of Minnesota’s three-year MFA program that inspired them to head to the Midwest. While Smith earned a degree in fiction writing, Heidenberg—who had worked as…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more Climate-Resistant Breadfruit Could Help Fight Food Insecurity Many of our most consumed crops (like corn and wheat) will continue to be negatively effected by the climate crisis, leading to food insecurity for many, but scientists believe…
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The Community Conclusion to Damien Hirst’s NFT Collection “The Currency” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Launched in July 2021, The Currency is an NFT collection by Damien Hirst in collaboration with international art service HENI. It comprises 10,000 NFTs—each of which corresponds to one of the artist’s spot paintings—which could be traded in for the physical artwork. 4,851 token holders of The Currency opted to keep their NFTs, leaving their corresponding paintings…
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Ceramicist Roxanne Jackson – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] NYC’s The Hole hosts ceramicist Roxanne Jackson’s latest exhibit Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, an aptly titled show of dizzying and wild polarities. Opening today and on view until 23 October, the exhibition—crafted in the artist’s studio and home in Wassaic, New York, which we toured to learn more—feels immediately…
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Group Exhibit “Set It Off” Boldly Challenges History, Identity and Artistic Mediums – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The phrase “set it off” has two interpretations: to do something intensely in a major way or to interrupt and alter the status quo. In the Hamptons, the Parrish Art Museum‘s group exhibit of the same name realizes this idiom’s definition to its fullest extent. Put together by curator Racquel Chevremont and beloved artist Mickalene…
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Parisian Author Clément Le Coz’s Love Letter to Argentina, “Ma Vie à Buenos Aires” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In 2014, after nearly 10 years living and working in Buenos Aires, Paris-born author and cultural advocate Clément Le Coz launched a concierge service in the Argentine city to guide ex-pats toward restaurant debuts, thought-provoking exhibitions and an array of engaging activities. During the pandemic, however, the need for such services was upended. To compensate…
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Artist Jen Pack at Kouri + Corrao Gallery for Volta New York 2022 – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] As the cultural calendar transitioned from NYCxDesign to Frieze New York, furniture and decor fairs gave way to an extraordinary array of art exhibitions, installations and events. Among them, Volta New York 2022—a platform for middle-market galleries dedicating their booths to solo presentations from emerging talent—welcomed the wondrous works of Albuquerque, New Mexico-based artist Jen…