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‘Making the Invisible Visible’ Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

More than 3,000 historical scientific microscope slides are conserved and digitized to enable greater access. Do...

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Potential of Other Worlds: Mystery, Lineage, and Los Angeles at AMPHI Gallery

“During one of those sleepless nights, the thought crosses my mind that pregnancy happens to you, like...

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From The Aesthetica Art Prize: Surreal Scenes

Glitched landscapes. Paper fish. Echoes of René Magritte. These longlisted artists from the 2025 Aesthetica Art...

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Rep Your Love for Independent Arts Publishing

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Gretchen Jeens is Shifting Her Approach

Gretchen Jeen’s Small Talk is upcoming in Shift, a Women’s Art Association of Canada exhibition exploring...

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This Year’s Must-See Architecture Exhibitions

These five exhibitions spotlight the designers and buildings inspired by culture, history and ecology that...

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Expanding Narratives

Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena uses the camera to examine the most pressing social, urban and...

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Pentagram designs identity for first-of-its kind gender equality mapping tool

The patchwork feel of the identity was chosen to celebrate the beauty and power of diversity, without distracting...

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The generation advertising can't sweet-talk

As the UK's HFSS restrictions take hold, food brands are losing their oldest emotional shortcuts. In this opinion...

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New spirit-free cocktail menu takes cues from punk zines and sober rebellion

A new design-led cocktail book for Burma Burma Restaurant reframes non-alcoholic drinking as expressive, rebellious...

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ASICS taps 'Good Vibrations' for global campaign celebrating the mental lift of movement

As running culture continues to grow in popularity, ASICS' latest global campaign leans into joy and unexpected...

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Kiriakos Tompolidis "Your Tears Will Dry" @ Vielmetter, Los Angeles

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce, Your Tears Will Dry, a solo exhibition of new works by Kiriakos...