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Lina Lapelytė Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400,000 Wood Blocks for Communal Building
All images ‘We Make Years Out of Hours’ installation view at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (2026). Photos © Lina Lapelytė , courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, shared with permission Lina Lapelytė Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400,000 Wood Blocks for Communal Building April 28, 2026 Art Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark Inside…
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Rachel Mentzer Transforms Discarded Cartons into Dusky Collagraphs
“Where Powerlines Sing.” All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Rachel Mentzer Transforms Discarded Cartons into Dusky Collagraphs April 27, 2026 Art Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark One of the most common sights in cities is birds perched on power lines, although it rarely elicits a second look. Starlings chortle, pigeons coo, and…
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Joe Macken Spent 21 Years Hand-Assembling a Vast Model of New York City
Image by Rota6 Films. All images courtesy of the artist and the Museum of the City of New York, shared with permission Joe Macken Spent 21 Years Hand-Assembling a Vast Model of New York City April 27, 2026 ArtCraftDesignHistory Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark Over the course of two decades, Queens resident Joe Macken meticulously…
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Cassandra Dias Takes an Impressionistic Approach to Painting with Thread
All images courtesy of Cassandra Dias, shared with permission Cassandra Dias Takes an Impressionistic Approach to Painting with Thread April 27, 2026 BooksCraft Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark What better way to meditate on nature’s most majestic features than to recreate its details one stitch at a time? Since picking up a needle and thread…
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Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time
All images © Navid Baraty, shared with permission Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time April 24, 2026 Photography Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark When we consider that enormous metropolises like New York City and Chicago have only come into being within the past few hundred years, it’s impossible not to stand in…
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An Interactive Archive Celebrates the Wide Ranging Projects Inviting ‘Unruly Play’
Image courtesy of Unruly Play An Interactive Archive Celebrates the Wide Ranging Projects Inviting ‘Unruly Play’ April 24, 2026 ArtDesign Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark “Play is how we give permission,” says Vitor Freire, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Imagination of Things. “Permission to challenge what’s fixed, rehearse what doesn’t exist yet, and close the…
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Thousands of Strips of Silk Undulate in Kenny Nguyen’s ‘Deconstructed Paintings’
“Eruption Series No. 78” (2025), hand-cut silk fabric, acrylic paint and canvas, mounted on wall, 80 x 100 x 12 inches. All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Thousands of Strips of Silk Undulate in Kenny Nguyen’s ‘Deconstructed Paintings’ April 23, 2026 Art Kate Mothes Share Pin Email Bookmark Silk has been crafted…
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Water Samples from Around the World Melt into Dima Rebus’ Dreamy Paintings
“Intuitive Course VI” (2025), watercolor on paper, chemical solutions, rainwater, and water samples from strangers, 42 x 80 centimeters. All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Water Samples from Around the World Melt into Dima Rebus’ Dreamy Paintings April 23, 2026 ArtNature Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark The act of painting is often…
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Contrast Reigns in Austn Fischer’s Conspicuous Black-and-White Photos
All images courtesy of Austn Fischer, shared with permission Contrast Reigns in Austn Fischer’s Conspicuous Black-and-White Photos April 23, 2026 Photography Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark “I started doing photography as a way to express things I don’t understand or to convey a message I’m having a hard time explaining,” Austn Fischer says. “I often work…
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Animals Wander through Neighborhood Streets at Twilight in Nicholas Moegly’s Illustrations
“A Cautious Return.” All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Animals Wander through Neighborhood Streets at Twilight in Nicholas Moegly’s Illustrations April 22, 2026 ArtIllustration Kate Mothes Share Pin Email Bookmark In folklore, twilight is often interpreted as a liminal, even magical time during which spirits emerge in the transition between light and…