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- Todd Antony Chronicles the ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’ Summiting the Highest Peak in the Americasby Kate Mothes on July 23, 2024 at 12:28 pm
For generations, Indigenous Bolivian women were not allowed to walk freely in the wealthy or central parts of the nation’s capital, La Paz, where they were considered lower-class and expected to stay at home or work in servitude. More recently, this attitude has changed as Aymara and Quechua women have taken back their rights, expressing themselves confidently through characteristically tall bowler hats, long braids, and bright shawls, skirts, and petticoats. Originally meant as a pejorative term, cholita has been embraced by Aymara and Quechua women, who have adopted the name as a signal of pride. More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article Todd Antony Chronicles the ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’ Summiting the Highest Peak in the Americas appeared first on Colossal.
- The Forthcoming ‘Racing for Thunder’ Chronicles Rammellzee’s Vibrant and Multi-Hyphenate Artistic Careerby Kate Mothes on July 23, 2024 at 10:00 am
In the 1970s and 1980s, a ride on the New York City subway looked a lot different than it does today, famously coated in graffiti inside and out. One figure of the era’s art scene who has gained posthumous attention during the past few years is the creative polymath Rammellzee (1960-2010), whose paintings, sculptures, and performances deployed and deconstructed language at a time when novel digital technologies were just beginning to emerge. More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article The Forthcoming ‘Racing for Thunder’ Chronicles Rammellzee’s Vibrant and Multi-Hyphenate Artistic Career appeared first on Colossal.
- A Collaborative Mural by Vhils and Bordalo II Celebrates the Legacy of Charles Darwinby Kate Mothes on July 22, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Published 165 years ago, Charles Darwin’s seminal On the Origin of Species founded our modern understanding of evolutionary biology. He keenly observed wildlife in its native habitats and the similarities between animals around the world—including humans—describing how, through natural selection, populations evolve through a branching pattern over time. Darwin is often misquoted as saying humans evolved from apes, but he actually acknowledged that humans and primates descended from a common ancestor that lived millions of years ago. More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article A Collaborative Mural by Vhils and Bordalo II Celebrates the Legacy of Charles Darwin appeared first on Colossal.
- Marc Quinn’s Monumental Flowers Invite Us to Reflect Upon Our Evolving Relationship with Natureby Kate Mothes on July 22, 2024 at 3:30 pm
From bronze, chrome, and silicone, Marc Quinn’s larger-than-life botanicals emerge with delicate precision. The exhibition Light into Life at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London continues the artist’s exploration of the boundaries between the natural and artificial, the living and non-living, sexuality, and the passage of time. Quinn often uses a mirrored effect to literally reflect humanity in nature while blurring the lines between the work and its surroundings. More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article Marc Quinn’s Monumental Flowers Invite Us to Reflect Upon Our Evolving Relationship with Nature appeared first on Colossal.
- A Concave ‘Scoop’ Out of a New Building in London Frames a Historic Nearby Windowby Kate Mothes on July 22, 2024 at 12:13 pm
From an office building in Southwark, London, an innovative expansion emerges in white glazed brick. Architecture firm Corstorphine & Wright conceived of “The Scoop,” a contemporary twist on a historic building in the Union Street Conservation Area, to modernize an existing structure and recognize its past. About 500 meters from the River Thames and centered on Union Street and Southwark Bridge Road, the quarter consists of predominantly 19th-century industrial warehousing, commercial spaces, and ecclesiastical structures. More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article A Concave ‘Scoop’ Out of a New Building in London Frames a Historic Nearby Window appeared first on Colossal.
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- 20 Famous Paintings Seen Side by Side With Their Real-Life Locationsby Regina Sienra on July 23, 2024 at 2:45 pm
20 Famous Paintings Seen Side by Side With Their Real-Life Locations 7. The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh (1888) In some ways van Gogh is more “realistic” than people give him credit for — look at the door in the left foreground, for example. Still, he had an unmatched talent for making relatively ordinary places seem utterly magical. pic.twitter.com/4fxxsVrgSM — The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June READ: 20 Famous Paintings Seen Side by Side With Their Real-Life Locations
- Make Memories With Your Best Four-Pawed Friend While Taking This Photography Classby Elizabeth Beiser on July 23, 2024 at 9:55 am
Make Memories With Your Best Four-Pawed Friend While Taking This Photography Class If you have a dog or cat in your life, you likely take lots of pictures. Whether or not you consider yourself creative, it’s hard to resist becoming a total shutterbug, grabbing another photo of our good boys and girls while they’re snoozing in the sun or romping in the yard. They’re just so cute, READ: Make Memories With Your Best Four-Pawed Friend While Taking This Photography Class
- 47th Kennedy Center Honors Announces Five Recipients Including The Apollo Theaterby Shiori Chen on July 22, 2024 at 9:10 pm
47th Kennedy Center Honors Announces Five Recipients Including The Apollo Theater Join us again in congratulating the 47th #KennedyCenterHonorees! “Our Honorees this year have each played an invaluable, pioneering role in developing American culture…with their decades-long devotion to pushing creative boundaries.” –@kencen President Deborah F. Rutter. pic.twitter.com/nVUBQkCmZS — The Kennedy Center (@kencen) July 18, 2024 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has recently revealed READ: 47th Kennedy Center Honors Announces Five Recipients Including The Apollo Theater
- Electric Airplane Designed To Hold 90 Passengers and Fly up to 500 Miles Without Needing to Rechargeby Sarah Currier on July 22, 2024 at 8:15 pm
Electric Airplane Designed To Hold 90 Passengers and Fly up to 500 Miles Without Needing to Recharge Air travel contributes to nearly 2.5% of all global carbon dioxide emissions, giving it one of the highest carbon footprints of any form of transportation. At the moment, the sustainable aviation industry provides flyers with extremely limited options for green air travel, but this shows signs of changing. It was previously thought that battery powered READ: Electric Airplane Designed To Hold 90 Passengers and Fly up to 500 Miles Without Needing to Recharge
- Scientists Discover First-Ever Organism That Doesn’t Need Oxygen To Surviveby Shiori Chen on July 22, 2024 at 7:20 pm
Scientists Discover First-Ever Organism That Doesn’t Need Oxygen To Survive Water, food, and oxygen are the most basic elements needed to sustain life. Since their discovery, water bears, or tardigrades, have defied that fact by surviving without food for long periods and withstanding extreme temperatures and environments. However, while they don’t have respiratory organs, tardigrades do require oxygen to live. But what if there is READ: Scientists Discover First-Ever Organism That Doesn’t Need Oxygen To Survive
- Sander Vosby rfotofolio on July 21, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Would you please tell us about yourself? I am a self taught Dutch fine art photographer based in London. Blending fine art with portraiture, my work often incorporates elements of Surrealism. Inspired by my background in Design, I embrace light and contrast as devices to sculpt graphic compositions. Who has had an influence on… Read More
- Photo of the Day,Jerry Rosenthalby rfotofolio on July 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Jerry Rosenthal Click on image for a different view. Featuring some of the outstanding images that have been shared with Rfotofolio. To learn more about the work of Jerry Rosenthal,please click on his name. Featured Comments : Lovely scene: I especially enjoy the wide range within the tonal gamut that joyfully separates objects and textures. Well… Read More
- Photo of the Day, Gerardo Stübingby rfotofolio on July 14, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Gerardo Stübing Click on image for a different view. Featuring some of the outstanding images that have been shared with Rfotofolio. To learn more about the work of Gerardo Stübing,please click on his name.
- Photo of the Day, George Nobechiby rfotofolio on July 13, 2024 at 12:00 pm
George Nobechi Click on image for a different view. Featuring some of the outstanding images that have been shared with Rfotofolio. To learn more about the work of George Nobechi,please click on his name.
- Photo of the Day, David Brookoverby rfotofolio on July 12, 2024 at 1:44 pm
David Brookover Click on image to see a different view. Featuring some of the outstanding images that have been shared with Rfotofolio. To learn more about the work of David Brookover,please click on his name.
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- Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Will Step Down at End of 2025by Karen K. Ho on July 22, 2024 at 10:53 pm
Walker has been at the philanthropic organization for 11 years, overseeing nearly $7 billion in grants.
- Dominick Di Meo, Artist of Chicago’s Monster Roster with a Cult Following, Dies at 97by Alex Greenberger on July 22, 2024 at 8:28 pm
His unclassifiable art drew its inspirations from European avant-gardes and ancient peoples alike.
- Paris Olympics Force Galleries to Close, Leaving Dealers in a Tough Spotby Alex Greenberger on July 22, 2024 at 8:22 pm
One dealer described the games as inducing a “prison-like context” for local businesses.
- British-Israeli Activists at Tate Modern Protest Len Blavatnik: ‘Don’t Mess with Freedom of the Press’by Tessa Solomon on July 22, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Blavatnik, a major museum patron, has been accused of enabling censorship at the Israeli media company he owns.
- Venice Entrance Fee Leads to Mixed Results and Political Turmoil Amid Efforts to Curb Overtourismby Daniel Cassady on July 22, 2024 at 4:20 pm
The entry fee brought in €2.43 million from 485,000 payments, more than tripling the initial estimate of €700,000.
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- Tips on Creating Your Own Art Bookby Carol Burns on July 5, 2024 at 3:26 pm
An art book is not meant to collect dust on a bookshelf. It’s a piece of limited edition artwork that should be shown off, like a coffee table book. Major artists and galleries have recognized that carefully curated books can…Continue reading
- Oil Paint for Artists: Origins and Overviewby Carol Burns on June 22, 2024 at 2:20 am
Oil paint is a revered medium among many artists. We explore how its made, its place in history, and popular techniques. What is oil paint? All paint is designed to do the same thing: get pigment (color) to stick to…Continue reading
- Online Art Competitions to Build Your Reputationby Carol Burns on June 7, 2024 at 1:50 pm
The internet has changed a lot about the way we work — and sell — as artists, and one of the best aspects is the advent of online art competitions. What is an online art competition? Every art competition begins…Continue reading
- The Benefits of YouTube for Artistsby Carol Burns on May 17, 2024 at 4:35 pm
YouTube is a video-sharing platform that makes sense for visual artists working in film or animation. But for artists working in 2D and 3D static works, it can be still be a vital resource. For the modern artist, there are…Continue reading
- What the Judges Say: How to Win Art Competitionsby Carol Burns on May 17, 2024 at 3:03 pm
Judging art competitions is an art form in its own right. And understanding who the judges are and what the judges are looking for will help ensure your work gets to the top of the list and a share of…Continue reading
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- Featured Artist Kristen Palanaby Carolyn on July 23, 2024 at 11:00 am
Featured artist Kristen Palana presents a symbolic collection of meditative artworks based on sacred geometry. The post Featured Artist Kristen Palana appeared first on Artsy Shark.
- True Colors. Sabotaging the deceitful ecological narrative of the automotive industryby Regine on May 27, 2024 at 2:53 pm
Inspired by the Dieselgate scandal, the work recontextualizes the industry’s own visual marketing tools to reveal the stark contrast between its professed environmental narrative and actual practices
- War as a consumer goodby Regine on May 20, 2024 at 3:49 pm
War does not only manifest itself as a military conflict on battlefields with clear physical fronts, but it also appears more abstractly in our society in various places. I Died 22 Times shows and questions the way our culture deals with warfare outside real battlefields
- PL’AI. An AI robot created to play with cucumber plantsby Regine on May 17, 2024 at 3:27 pm
PL’AI is a process lasting several months in which plants grown from seed and an AI-robot whose perceptual world is limited to them, interact with each other
- One Star Review Tour. Interview with !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičićby Regine on May 14, 2024 at 12:57 pm
What role do public spaces play in the “reputation economy”? How does your experience of a place change when you check only 1 star reviews on Google Maps?
- Pareidolia. AI finds faces on grains of sandby Regine on May 9, 2024 at 1:55 pm
The installation parodies our anthropocentric worldview, whereby everything revolves around us and we deploy the most sophisticated technologies to satisfy an absurd desire to find our own image in tiny grains of sand
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- Google to produce augmented reality-based microscope for cancer diagnoses in DoD projectby James Bourne on September 4, 2020 at 2:29 pm
Google Cloud is working with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver an augmented reality (AR) microscope for cancer diagnoses. The project, for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), more widely involves prototyping an AI-enabled digital pathology solution at select DoD facilities. The company cited research from the Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality,… Read more » The post Google to produce augmented reality-based microscope for cancer diagnoses in DoD project appeared first on Virtual Reality News.
- Why VR providers are pinning their hopes on profiting from ‘Zoom fatigue’by James Bourne on July 29, 2020 at 9:07 am
What is the latest marketing strategy for virtual reality software providers? If the Covid-19 pandemic will cause the new normal to become the normal full stop, Zoom and their ilk are not going to cut it long-term. Meet AfterNow. The California-based startup, which describes itself grandly as ‘building the future of human computing with augmented… Read more » The post Why VR providers are pinning their hopes on profiting from ‘Zoom fatigue’ appeared first on Virtual Reality News.
- ‘Bright future’ for AR and VR in 2021 and beyond, says Strategy Analyticsby James Bourne on July 14, 2020 at 3:23 pm
The short-term outlook for virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) may be a struggle, according to Strategy Analytics, but if organisations can ride out this wave then the future looks bright. The findings appear in the analyst firm’s latest report, ‘Short and Long-Term Impacts of Covid-19 on the AR and VR Market.’ Among the report’s… Read more » The post ‘Bright future’ for AR and VR in 2021 and beyond, says Strategy Analytics appeared first on Virtual Reality News.
- Magic Leap appoints former Microsoft exec Johnson as CEOby James Bourne on July 8, 2020 at 6:38 am
Magic Leap has appointed Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson as its new chief executive officer, replacing Rony Abovitz. Johnson was previously executive vice president of business development at Microsoft. In an interview with the New York Times (NYT), she said the time was right amid the Covid-19 pandemic to explore the promise of spatial technology, comparing… Read more » The post Magic Leap appoints former Microsoft exec Johnson as CEO appeared first on Virtual Reality News.
- VR motion sickness survey reinforces gender gapby James Bourne on July 6, 2020 at 10:50 am
In spite of virtual reality’s benefits and hype, one of its primary inhibitors remains the threat of motion sickness. A new survey finds it still plays a prominent role – with women more at risk than men. The survey, put together by VR Heaven and which polled almost 300 respondents, found that more than half… Read more » The post VR motion sickness survey reinforces gender gap appeared first on Virtual Reality News.