When backlit, Yael Martínez's images bear a dazzling constellation of light that distorts the images haunted by violence.
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Piping clay with bakery tools, the Australian artist creates a range of delectable vessels in a prism of colors.
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'Pu$h Thru' is the artist's first solo exhibition in her hometown of Chicago since 2018.
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"Letting the clay guide me is what I enjoy most about the medium," she shares.
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Locke has long been interested in the time-honored traditions and spectrum of histories associated with watercraft.
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Goudy's pieces build on a love for simple yet elegant forms that reflect nature's inherent geometries.
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Opening this week in Chicago, Ventus features paintings, sculptures, and prints by Cody Hudson, Seonna Hong, Seth Pimentel, Stevie Shao, and Scott Sueme.
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"... flags should have simple elements, a limited number of colors, and no words. One of the tenets of vexillology is that the elements of the flag should be simple enough to be easily drawn by a child." — The Toledo (Ohio) Blade, 9 Jan. 2025
Did you know?
"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." Woodrow Wilson was speaking of the U.S. flag when he made that statement in an address in June of 1915, but those who engage in vexillology—that is, vexillologists—would likely find the comment applicable to any national banner. Vexillologists undertake scholarly investigations of flags, producing papers with titles such as "A Review of the Changing Proportions of Rectangular Flags since Medieval Times, and Some Suggestions for the Future." In the late 1950s, they coined vexillology as a name for their field of research, basing it on vexillum, the Latin term for a square flag or banner of the ancient Roman cavalry. The adjectives vexillologic and vexillological and the noun vexillologist followed soon thereafter.