Prepare yourself to be amazed.
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Inside Beauty at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum is celebrating its fifth installment of the popular contemporary design exhibition series, Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. The exhibit lasts through August 21. For more information: Visit here.
The ‘Beauty’ exhibit is just that—clothing, architecture and other display pieces created with technology or another unexpected mediums such as acrylic, beads and 3D-printers. The purpose of the exhibit is to explore the question: “What is beauty?”
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Royalty Without Riches: Bisa Butler's Portrait Quilts at the Richard Beavers Gallery
I've been having a lot of "love at first sight" moments with art lately. Such is the case when you're actively looking for beauty; you seem to find it everywhere. Such was the case with the work of artist Bisa Butler's latest exhibition in Brooklyn, "The People Who Could Fly: Royalty Without Riches". Butler uses everyday materials denim, cotton, silk, vintage flour sacks, etc. to create intricate portraits of the people who surround her such as her father, a friend's daughter, or her grandmother, along with famous women who inspire her such as Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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