In a recent excursion, the artist traveled to Africa to participate in the Sahara Marathon.
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The Philadelphia-based artist channels a nostalgic medium to peer more closely at what we ignore in the present.
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Through large-scale installations and framed tile pieces, the artists explore the possibilities of texture, pattern, and color.
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Known for his large-scale participatory art projects, JR has embarked on a new project that breathes life into a historic venue.
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This year marked the seventh edition of the festival's theme, "Art in Manufacturing," with large-scale installations and dozens of events.
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Composed of 21 panels that stretch 100 feet wide, "Paradise Lost" traces four chapters of the artist's life, from childhood to 2015.
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"I grew up in the magical realist tradition, not only in terms of literature and painting but as a school of thought and culture," Christian Ruiz Berman says.
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From myriad swaths of vivid, translucent fabric, the Tulsa-based artist conjures striking installations.
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"I love giving vintage textiles another chance to go back up on a wall and be admired again, cherished," the artist says.
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“A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently required to be dumped at sites specifically designated and approved for hazardous waste.” — Tony Briscoe, The Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Did you know?
Rescind and the lesser-known words exscind and prescind all come from the Latin verb scindere, which means “to split, cleave, separate.” Rescind was adapted from its Latin predecessor rescindere in the 16th century, and prescind (from praescindere) and exscind (from exscindere) followed in the next century. Exscind means “to cut off” or “to excise,” and prescind means “to withdraw one’s attention,” but of the three borrowings, only rescind established itself as a common English term. Today, rescind is most often heard in contexts having to do with the withdrawal of an offer, award, or privilege, or with invalidation of a law or policy.