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The Return of Craft: How Hand-Built Objects are Once Again Gaining Prestige

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Often responsibly sourced, these locally sourced materials can help connect a consumer to the product and its place, providing a valuable human touch in a digital world. And making do with existing materials is central to the work of Nick Pourfard, a skater and self-taught woodworker who transforms recycled skateboard decks into guitars.

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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

The Art Newspaper

Old models no longer working Gorvy thinks that traditional platforms including auctions and art fairs are no longer functioning like they used to. It’s a different world, one that just needs careful and sensitive navigation, both in terms of the material you bring [to market] and the platforms that are really working.”

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A century of Robert Rauschenberg: Blurring Boundaries, Redefining Art

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When you think of artists who changed the course of 20th-century art, Robert Rauschenberg stands out not just for his revolutionary ideas, but for his fearless exploration of materials, media, and meaning. And this mixing of artistic materials produced his landmark series of Combines (1954–64).

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An Illuminating Introduction to Ingo Maurer

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As a result, Bulb was equal parts humorous irony – its larger-than-life size pointed to its functional impossibility – and reverential contemplation, as it elevated an otherwise everyday object into its own aesthetic celebration. Ingo Maurer – YaYaHo Adjustable Modern Lighting System.

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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design: Bold Artistic Vision or Controversial Misstep?

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Famed for his approach to construction and detailing, Zumthor’s designs have often explored the sensory aspects of spaces and tactile materials – and this beams from every polished concrete surface in the LACMA expansion, which will be known as the David Geffen Galleries. called Zumthor “the great magician of minimalism.”

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The tale of a French psychiatric asylum that harboured Second World War resistance fighters—and where patients became artists

The Art Newspaper

Patients also made objects from found items, creating works that juxtaposed materials in odd ways that charmed visiting Surrealists. The book’s format—an exhibition catalogue with essays of varying lengths—never gives a clear reason why Saint-Alban still functioned throughout the war.

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Knots, Spirals, and the Symbolic Power of Celtic Art

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Key Motifs For centuries, fans of art, sculpture and fashion have been forming an enthused circle around Celtic-inspired craft, drawn to the spiritually resonant and aesthetically attractive motifs that sit at the heart of Celtic artistic expression. Materials and Mediums The La Tène period saw the Celts become master metal crafters.