"I’m fascinated by the way we are hurtling toward what seems to be a new way of being human, leaping without looking, hoping for the best."
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The Argentinian artist cloaks her figures in bold, geometric patterns and natural details like insect wings.
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The National Galleries of Scotland present 'Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years.'
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In 19th-century Maryland, Mary Elizabeth Banning emerged as one of America's first mycologists.
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Go retro with the artists' vibrant, layered paper sculptures.
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"Pasera" is the latest addition to Javier de Riba’s ongoing series focused on reclaiming small plots of land as communal sites.
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Using colorful eyeshadow cakes, powder blushes, and long acrylic nails, Irasema creates "an alternative version of the history of painting."
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Forest creatures and vintage technology emerge from whittled wood.
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“Though tightly bound by our love of books, we bibliophiles are a sundry lot, managing our obsession in a grand variety of ways. We organize by title, by author, by genre, by topic. By color, by height, by width, by depth. … We stack books into attractive still lifes accompanied by a single tulip in a bud vase, or into risky, undulant towers poised to flatten a passing housecat.” — Monica Wood, LitHub.com, 7 May 2024
Did you know?
If you’re looking for an adjective that encapsulates the rising and falling of the briny sea, wave hello to undulant. While not an especially common descriptor, it is useful not only for describing the ocean itself, but for everything from rolling hills to a snake’s sinuous movement to a fever that waxes and wanes. The root of undulant is, perhaps unsurprisingly, unda, a Latin word meaning “wave.” Other English words swimming the wake of unda include inundate, “to cover with a flood,” and undulate, “to form or move in waves.”