Renda portrays richly symbolic motifs within window frames and archways.
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Messam explores scale, form, and the built environment in large-scale, inflatable installations.
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Cradling tiny homes, seated amid flowers, or asleep and dreaming in a garden, the figures in Sergiu Ciochinǎ’s paintings rest and interact in moments of poignant solitude and reverie. The artist’s Blue Series is a visual collection of his own memories, reflections, and moods, which he elaborates into atmospheric and sometimes fantastical canvases. “For me,Continue reading "Sergiu Ciochinǎ’s ‘Blue Series’ Explores Personal Memories, Dreams, and Moods"
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A new book forthcoming from Phaidon celebrates our love for these prolific winged things throughout millennia.
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In "27 Schoolteachers and a Volcano," Pat Perry connects the hyperlocal and universal.
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Feng's pavilion nods to the legacy of the 17th-century Dutch colonial era in Taiwan.
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A core component of this Colossal-curated exhibition is community participation.
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The painting in central London was covered up within hours.
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Nostalgia and youthful imagination converge in the Brooklyn-based artist's enigmatic works.
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“This isn’t new territory for the band—beginning with 2018’s Modern Meta Physic, Peel Dream Magazine have taken cues from bands like Stereolab and Pram, exploring the ways that rigid, droning repetition can make time feel rubbery. As they snap back into the present, Black sings, ‘Millions of light years, all of them ours.’ The past and future fold into themselves, braided together in perpetuity.” — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 4 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
Perpetuity is a “forever” word—not in the sense that it relates to a lifelong relationship (as in “forever home”), but because it concerns the concept of, well, forever. Not only can perpetuity refer to infinite time, aka eternity, but it also has specific legal and financial uses, as for certain arrangements in wills and for annuities that are payable forever, or at least for the foreseeable future. The word ultimately comes from the Latin adjective perpetuus, meaning “continual” or “uninterrupted.” Perpetuus is the ancestor of several additional “forever” words, including the verb perpetuate (“to cause to last indefinitely”) and the adjective perpetual (“continuing forever,” “occurring continually”). A lesser known descendent, perpetuana, is now mostly encountered in historical works, as it refers to a type of durable wool or worsted fabric made in England only from the late 16th through the 18th centuries. Alas, nothing is truly forever.