Interview: Sonia Rentsch: From garden grenades to dinner settings, the Melbourne-based designer turns everyday oddities into art

Interview: Sonia Rentsch


With a client list that includes the Washington Post, Rare Medium, QANTAS, Desktop and Inside Out, Sonia Rentsch is making a name for herself with unique, eye-catching images that force you to see everyday objects in…

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“Outside The Lines” Coloring Book: Over 100 works of art by over 100 contemporary artists, for creatives of all ages




The best creative tools have the power to appeal to all ages. Case in point: “Outside the Lines,” a coloring book curated by Souris Hong-Porretta, featuring over 100 works of art by an equal number of…

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Interview: Orly Genger: The artist behind the Madison Square Park installation “Red, Yellow and Blue”

Interview: Orly Genger


It’s been two months since “Red, Yellow and Blue” opened in NYC at Madison Square Park, and every day it continues to leave a gaze-worthy impression on passerby who are unsure how to approach the spilled,…

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Cool Hunting Video: Juan Miguel Palacios: Giving a traditionally 2D medium more depth, this Brooklyn-based painter explores the human condition

Cool Hunting Video: Juan Miguel Palacios


A recent transplant to Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Spanish artist Juan Miguel Palacios is making a splash in the New York art scene with a series of work focusing on the human form. Palacios uses a…

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Jonas Lund’s Art World API: A digital installation exploring art through technology and science

Jonas Lund's Art World API


Still abuzz from his shared online experience art piece “We See In Every Direction,” the Swedish-born, Amsterdam-based artist Jonas Lund is launching a new project, called Art World…

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Semblance 16 Print by Von: The British illustrator uses photopolymer technology to create a limited edition, contemporary portraiture print

Semblance 16 Print by Von


by Gavin Lucas London-based illustrator Von is no stranger to Cool Hunting, we’ve featured his distinctive monochromatic artwork several times in recent years, because it never ceases to impress us. His latest work, a limited…

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Ellen Gallagher: Don’t Axe Me: Meticulous layering breaks through the canvas to reinvent visual contexts and explore future possibilities in the New Museum exhibition

Ellen Gallagher: Don't Axe Me


by LinYee Yuan Those familiar with the work of American artist Ellen Gallagher often view her delicate works on paper and canvas through the lens of racial and gender politics—Gallagher’s “DeLuxe” series famously abstracted African-American beauty and…

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Deedee Cheriel: Episodes in the Abundant Oasis: The LA-based artist paints modern fables with dream-like animal figures

Deedee Cheriel: Episodes in the Abundant Oasis


by Mya Stark Gods, monsters or something more enigmatically human, the animal-headed figures of artist Deedee Cheriel are set to grace LA’s Merry Karnowsky Gallery this weekend. In the…

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Project A:LOG: A group of architects are creating the ultimate notebook for designers

Project A:LOG


Three aspiring architects from Columbia’s GSAPP program, Paul Chan, Richard Angus Duff and Ebberly Strathairn took it upon themselves to end their unrewarding quest for the ultimate notebook by making…

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Interview: Richard Dupont: The pioneering, digitally-minded sculptor shifts toward material and process

Interview: Richard Dupont


Artist Richard Dupont first caught our attention years ago as one of the early artists to experiment with distortions of digital models in a physical space. Fond of manipulating scans of his own body, Dupont has produced everything from shape-shifting statues…

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