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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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As a result, the skills of craftsmanship are competing with the screen-based digital art realm as many turn toward the handmade. Touch and technique are inextricably intertwined in textile and the mixed media works, encaustic painting and ceramic forms gaining in popularity. Sold for $75,000 USD via Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.

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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design: Bold Artistic Vision or Controversial Misstep?

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A Japanese Kannon Bosatsu in carved wood from the 12th century may well sit alongside Henri Matisse ’s ceramic tile embedded in plaster in La Gerbe (1953), which isn’t currently on display.

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New York City art schools see surge in Gen Z applications

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Despite staggering tuition costs and the relative precarity of creative vocations, young adults are flocking to the arts across the city and country. "There are ways to make a life that is still rooted in creative work," Dahlia Elsayed, the fine-arts programme director of LaGuardia Community College in Queens, told Gothamist.

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A testament to the power of Pueblo ceramics and community-based curation

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The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective

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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

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What it Means to be Human Man with Ceramic Reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica in the town of Gernika (Guernica), Bascay, Spain, located on the same street as the Gernika Assembly House ( Wikimedia Commons ).

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London's pre-contemporary art market gets boost from two new summer events

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Thomas Jones (1742-1803), In the Campagna, near Rome ( 1783 ) Courtesy of Karen Taylor Fine Art Exhibitions include The Spirit of Place at Daniel Katz Gallery, a solo show of landscapes by the British artist Paul Nash; a rediscovered Titian, Madonna and Child with St. Mask is priced at £100,000 and the horse, £35,000.

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A hundred years on, Cork Street is the beating heart of London’s art scene once more

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Organised in collaboration with the curator Tarini Malik, who is overseeing the centenary exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery is showing photographs by Caroline Coon alongside ceramics by Cocteau, while Alon Zakaim Fine Art is exhibiting Impressionist artists who initially faced intense criticism and rejection from their contemporaries.