Kim Dacres gravitates toward renewal and care, transforming worn rubber into expressive sculptural portraits.
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Monica Rohan's patterned fabrics and indoor furnishings once again make their way outside, although now, humans are nowhere to be found.
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SpY's latest installation suspends metallic discs inside of an industrial space as part of Bright Festival.
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The artist's solo exhibition 'The Wee Small Hours' continues through May 3 in Glasgow.
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Robledo draws on his upbringing in the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco for bold prints.
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"We Make Years Out of Hours" invites the public to remake structures from 10-centimeter blocks.
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"We live with so many hard things," says Sheila Hicks, "that we're crying for softness."
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The expansive model consists of 340 individual sections, each constructed with materials like balsa wood, cardboard, and glue.
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Nature's resilience is at the center of a practice also focused on sustainability and environmental renewal.
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"My tendency to throw remote historical observations into a conversation exasperates my wife and often results in chuckles and eye rolls from friends." — Angus Scott, The Niagara Falls (Ontario) Review, 28 Mar. 2026
Did you know?
Exasperate is frequently confused with exacerbate, and with good reason. Not only do these words resemble one another in spelling and pronunciation, they also at one time held exceedingly similar meanings. Exasperate is today most commonly used as a synonym of annoy, but for several hundred years it also had the meanings "to make more grievous" and "to make harsh or harsher." Exacerbate is now the more common choice when one seeks to indicate that something is becoming increasingly bitter, violent, or unpleasant. It comes in part from the Latin word acer, meaning "sharp," whereas exasperate is from asper, the Latin word for "rough." The latter is also the source of the English asperity, which can refer to the roughness of a surface or the roughness of someone's temper.