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Interviews, visual arts, and the Kobeh artist archive.
Visual arts
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Zero-One | An overview of the drawings by AbdolHossein Pazoki
Biography: Abdolhossein Pazouki / August 6, 1942 He was able to achieve alternating volumes and apply them in architecture by understanding the…
Tools of destruction; About Parisa Pakzamir’s Glitch Video Art
Parisa Pakzamir has used a sewing machine as a symbol of machine wear and an element of the industry in the video…
Limitlessness Exhibition at Aliha Gallery
Aliha Gallery has been hosting a group painting exhibition entitled “Limitlessness” since Friday, December 11, 2020. The short statement of this exhibition…
Painting
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On Mohammad Ali famori’s “Hypnotic Zone”: The Adventure of discoverer cornea
Mohammad Ali famori seeks to understand and define the existing hypnosis in the conscious and subconscious perusal of the individual under the symbol’s…
Interview with Nasrin Charkhat at Aliha Gallery
Nasrin Charkhat (born 1982 – Tehran) is a graduate of the Master’s degree in painting from the Tehran University. During her studies…
Iranian Art Festival a transnational event in the field of Visual Arts
Iranian Art Festival a transnational event in the field of Visual Arts Countless artistic events are held around the world by private…
Conceptual art
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Glitch Video Art Group exhibition of Platform 101 at Kandovan building
Platform 101 is holding its third international group exhibition entitled “Glitch: Aesthetic of the Pixels”. After the great success of Vol.2, Platform…
Aberration of Inner Child in Barcelona Contemporary 2021
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 2nd edition…
Object losses; About Erfan Ashourioun Glitch Video Art
Glitch Video Art Erfan Ashourioun, who accompanied Mohammad Saheb Zamani in composing music, titled “Melancholia” at The Group Exhibition Glitch; pixel language…
Photography
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Okhai Ojeikere; Sociological reflection of braided hair
One of the approaches that art sociologists have often tend to study the interrelationship between art and society is reflection’s approach. In…
Iranian Art Festival a transnational event in the field of Visual Arts
Iranian Art Festival a transnational event in the field of Visual Arts Countless artistic events are held around the world by private…
CRAIG BURROWS PHOTOGRAPHS THE INVISIBLE LIGHT THAT PLANTS EMIT
Since 2014, Craig Burrows has photographed hundreds of glowing flowers after seeing Oleksandr Holovachov’s work with ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence (UVIVF) photography. Each…
Interviews
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Nicole Meeuws on Painting After a Near-Death Experience
Nicole Meeuws had never painted. In 2015, a medical emergency in an Austrian hospital brought her close to death, and she returned…
Nicolas Lebedel on Publishing Ferdowsi’s Shâhnâmeh as Pop-Up Art
A conversation with the founder of Les Rêveurs, the small French publishing house that has spent nine years turning the Persian national…
In conversation with Arnaud Pagnier, Partner at Magna Gallery Paris
At the intersection of contemporary Korean art, ceramics, and the historic atmosphere of Paris’s Carré Rive Gauche, this interview explores the curatorial…
Sculpturing
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THE AVOID CONVERSATION TABLE BY MICHAEL BEITZ
This could come in handy on those awkward dinner time arguments, or better yet, a really bad date. Michael Beitz has created…
FLYING, FLOATING SCULPTURES BY CEDRIC LE BORGNE
Like his Voyageur sculpture that travel around the world, Cédric Le Borgne invites everyone to view daily life in a fresh way,…
WIRES
This is my personal project I did over a half a year ago. It is a 2.0 version of the WIRES project I…
Video Art
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Glitch Video Art Group exhibition of Platform 101 at Kandovan building
Platform 101 is holding its third international group exhibition entitled “Glitch: Aesthetic of the Pixels”. After the great success of Vol.2, Platform…
Aberration of Inner Child in Barcelona Contemporary 2021
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 2nd edition…
Familiar geometry; About Mohammad Ali Famori’s Glitch Video Art
In the final week of the group exhibition “Glitch; Pixel Language »Platform 101, Mohammad Ali Famori Video Art was screened under the…
Graphic
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7 Pablo Picasso Paintings Recreated As 3D Sculptures
Pablo Picasso’s eccentric and surreal artwork has inspired countless modern artists, including Pakistani illustrator Omar Aqil, who imagined how some of the…
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya visual identity
Taking the existing brand as a reference, we evolved the visual identity of Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and led the creative direction…
ORDER AND CHAOS
An artist whose short career was troubled by both psychological and physical trauma, Eva Hesse (1936–70) left journals and other written records…
Graffiti
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SCENE REPORT: NEW YORK
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few…
AN UPDATE WITH MECRO
Over the years Mecro has dominated the panels with his crispy clean beveled type and the work speaks for itself. Today we…
SCENE REPORT: LOS ANGELES
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few…
Architecture
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A Dialogue with Nature: Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for artists, and landscape remains a favored subject for many. In the late 1960s,…
Architecture of Life
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its…
THE MUSEUM INTERFACE
by Sarah Hromack, Rob Giampietro It’s no longer a question of whether art institutions should have a virtual presence. Rather, the onus…
Installation
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Cultural Sensibility
A major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, creating a conversation between the dangers of domesticity and the depths of identity in today’s…
A NON-SIGN BILLBOARD
Back in 2010, Seattle-based design studio, Lead Pencil Studio, installed a billboard on the US-Canada border in Washington “signifying no advertisement, no…
UTTAPORN NIMMALAIKAEW
Each piece from Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew “starts from a canvas backdrop that is set inside a deep casement, and that is…
Performance art
View categoryTHE MOST-VIEWED WORK OF PERFORMANCE ART IN HISTORY
THE MOST-VIEWED WORK OF PERFORMANCE ART IN HISTORY: VANESSA BEECROFT ON DITCHING THE ART WORLD FOR KANYE WEST On Valentine’s Day, the…
BLANK ON BLANK: DAVID BOWIE ON STARDUST
BLANK ON BLANK: DAVID BOWIE ON STARDUST Our website might just be a celebration of everything is David Bowie as we mourn…
Julia Vogl wins the Catlin Art Prize 2012
Huge congratulations to Julia Vogl who has been selected as this year’s winner of the Catlin Art Prize.Let’s Hang Out invites visitors…