If you're in London, you can explore more than 100 murals this month for the 2024 festival.
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Comprising 1,000 paintings, sculptures, photos, and archival objects, 'OSGEMEOS: Endless Story' traces the brothers' creative evolution.
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The Barcelona-based artist constructs cascading steel villages that reflect the architecture of our lives.
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Layering wide brushstrokes on synthetic silk, Greg Breda renders delicate, fragmented portraits.
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On cardboard produce boxes, Narsiso Martinez portrays the people who really keep the American agricultural system running.
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Where do we go from here? For Freedoms is set to release its first-ever monograph, fittingly named after the query.
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Aboard a research vessel, artists are provided with a berth on each expedition, exploring a wide range of global marine phenomena.
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In Oviedo, Spain, a 6,000-square-meter installation of metallic emergency blankets transforms a former arms factory.
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“The Handel & Hendrix [House], on 23 and 25 Brook Street in central London, reopens 18 May.... The 18th century German composer George Frideric Handel called number 25 home for some 36 years, up until his death in 1759. Here, he manufactured hits like coronation/Champions League belter Zadok the Priest, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks with such voraciousness, his manuscripts were often bespattered with food and beer stains. Perhaps you'd equate such sloppiness with Jimi Hendrix; his tenancy in a flat at 23 Brook Street was altogether fugacious; he was only here from 1968-9—though in that time, used it for countless interviews, jam sessions—and referred to it as the only place he ever lived that felt like home.” — Will Noble, The Londonist, 18 May 2023
Did you know?
The word fugacious is too rare and unusual to qualify as vanilla, but the vanilla plant itself can be useful for recalling its meaning. Fugacious (which comes from Latin fugax, meaning “swift, fleeting,” and ultimately from fugere, “to run away”) describes the ephemeral—that is, those things in life that last only a brief time before fleeing or fading away. The word is often used to describe immaterial things, such as emotions, but botanists like to apply the word to plant parts (such as seeds, fruits, petals, and leaflets) that are quickly shed or dropped. Vanilla plants, for example, are said to have fugacious blossoms, as their flowers last only a single day during the blooming season. You may remember this the next time you’re baking with vanilla, and perhaps wishing that its rich, fugacious aroma would linger just a little bit longer.