Art

October 5, 2025

New Book Gives an Insider’s Look at London’s Extensive Street Art Culture [Interview]

For nearly 15 years, Giulia Riva has been documenting the global street art scene on her respected blog, BLocal. Using public art as a window into local culture, she travels extensively and engages with the local art community to understand what makes it unique. To share her knowledge with a wider audience, she’s also begun self-publishing street art travel guides to some of the world’s top art cities.

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October 2, 2025

Kinetic Artist and Domino Expert Build a “City” With 240,000 Wooden Planks

Building soaring structures with dominoes just to topple them over is a form of ephemeral art. And similar to land art, it is designed to be temporary. It all takes a lot of detailed calculation, careful design, and cautious building with the ultimate goal for it to all come down in a matter of seconds, hopefully as planned. Few creatives have mastered this art form, building their entire careers around this craft.

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September 30, 2025

Innovative French DJ Transforms Historic Chateau Into a Dynamic Showcase of Music and Lights

If you were there on September 19, 2025, the Chateau de Chambord was likely unrecognizable. The UNESCO World Heritage Site in Chambord, France, was transformed into a canvas for the renowned French DJ and music producer Michael Canitrot. Using the technological magic of projection mapping, the massive Renaissance facade wore an ever-changing contemporary cloak choreographed to Canitrot’s electronic music. With Canitrot’s artistic direction, the chateau provided a backdrop for an audiovisual story about “heritage and progression.

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September 29, 2025

Monumental Mandala-Like Paintings Explore the Vastness of Spirituality

For Maria Trishchetskaia, art is meant to transform a personal vision into something tangible. She says, this allows “others [to] step into [your] inner world.” This “inner world” is especially important given the artist’s primary subject: spirituality. It took time to arrive at that stylistic preference, and yet the Russian artist specifies that it still felt like a natural progression for her.

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