Art & Design

Wander into Kirsty Elson’s Cornwall studio, and you’ll likely greet a menagerie of creatures alongside scraps of driftwood and rusted bits of metal. Scouring local beaches and embankments, the artist (previously) has an impeccable ability to envision a piglet’s ear or a dog’s snout from a weathered hunk of timber. Once in her studio, quirky characters emerge from scratched and worn materials, their lively personalities shining through the signs of age.

Elson sells some of her sculptures on her website, and you can follow her work on Instagram.

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If we were to travel 500 years into the future, what would the monuments decorating public parks and town squares commemorate? Thomas Doyle takes us on an unnerving journey to imagine the culture we might encounter should our endless fascination with technology continue.

The New York-based artist (previously) toys with perception as he sculpts miniature works at 1:43 scale and smaller. His new dystopian series, Clear History, invokes classical Greek and Roman sculpture, although the venerated figures appear more as a warning than an ideal. Sharp rays pierce through a woman’s head in “Clickthrough rate,” for example, while the hunched protagonist of “Opt in” demonstrates the neck-cranking posture many of us know all too well.

“Infinite scroll” (2024), mixed media, 22 x 13.8 x 13.8 centimeters

Interested in the long tail of culture, Doyle frequently looks to the past to better understand the consequences of our present. “I’m fascinated by the way we are hurtling toward what seems to be a new way of being human, leaping without looking, hoping for the best,” he says.

In each of the mixed-media scenes, tiny figures peer up at or sit near the weathered statues as they consider a world that’s come and gone. “The trappings of past cultures are all around us, morphed and made nearly unrecognizable over centuries,” the artist adds. “I’ve tried to trace the ways in which today’s technologies will reverberate over time. What will grow from the seeds we plant today? What becomes a venerated symbol? What serves as a cautionary myth?”

Doyle currently has a few models on view at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, and he very generously shares glimpses behind the scenes on Instagram.

“Acceptance criteria” (2024), mixed media, 21 x 15 x 15 centimeters

“Opt in” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 20 x 20 centimeters

“Switch profile” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 12.5 x 12.5 centimeters

“Show hidden” (2024), mixed media, 28 x 30 x 30 centimeters

“Session timeout” (2024), mixed media, 25 x 14.5 x 14.5 centimeters

“Bad gateway” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 17.5 x 17.5 centimeters

“Use case” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 14 x 14 centimeters

“Temporary redirect” (2024), mixed media, 21 x 26 x 26 centimeters

“We value your privacy” (2024), mixed media, 28 x 17.5 x 17.5 centimeters

“Rollback” (2024), mixed media / 20 x 16 x 16 centimeters

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I wanted to do some studies on torsos, specifically pecs, as they seem to be very different between men, but anatomy books kinda tend to generalize everything to an athletic archetype, and because modern pictures are very embelished, I trawled the Vintage Sports Pictures tumblr. Krita, took me 2 to 3 hours. Missed a bit in the center due to my hardrive being full :)

First set is from a Navy Wrestling Club.

The boxer is Muhammed Ali.

And the final set is from a group picture of a Scuba Diving Team.

This video is a speed paint compilation of Coreyartus Imagery's “Osprey”, used for greeting cards and stationery created using this image.

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It was created using Procreate on a 2021 12.9" iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil.
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Corey Johnston, the artist, is available for commissions and for hire. He is currently seeking representation.
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Avec David Revoy (illustrateur et auteur de bandes-dessinées) et Sarah Diep et Soizic Pineau du média Manifesto XXI.

Financer directement et collectivement la création déplace le pouvoir de décision, à l’image de la communauté de Pepper & Carrot de David Revoy, qui participe à son processus de création.

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If you voted for Trump this video is not for you.

This is a recording of Coreyartus Imagery's twice-weekly livestream. Corey streams on Tuesdays and Wednesday afternoons 1-4:00pm PDT (GMT-7) on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus This particular stream was done on July 14, 2025.

Corey narrates his process as he progresses through his artwork. In the end, these images end up as prints, greeting cards, stationery, calendars and other merchandise.

All his work is done in Procreate on a 12.9" iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. This recording features the development of a greeting card image.

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Pourquoi les musées français regorgent-ils d’objets africains ? Comment ont-ils été collectés ? Et à quel prix ?

Dans cette vidéo, on revient sur la mission Dakar-Djibouti (1931-1933), une expédition ethnographique coloniale qui a permis de rassembler plus de 3 600 objets africains, des milliers de photos, d'enregistrements sonores… et même des restes humains.

📍 L’exposition Mission Dakar-Djibouti : Contre-Enquête est visible au musée du Quai Branly jusqu’au 14 septembre 2025.

Présentée à l’époque comme un projet scientifique, cette mission est aujourd’hui au cœur d’une contre-enquête menée par des historiens africains et les équipes du musée du Quai Branly. Car derrière les discours de sauvegarde culturelle, on découvre une réalité beaucoup plus brutale : dons sous contrainte, chantages, vols déguisés, collaborations ambiguës et mémoire effacée.

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Invité.e.s
– Hugues Heumen, directeur du musée national du Cameroun et co-commissaire de l'exposition
– Marianne Lemaire, anthropologue et co-commissaire de l’exposition

Réalisation et écriture : Seumboy Vrainom :€ et Penda Fall
Montage : Nora
Couverture : Clément MR
Production : Nouveau Départ

00:00 Introduction
01:29 Le contexte colonial
05:53 Les méthodes d’acquisition
13:04 Les collaborateurs africains de la mission
18:14 Le rôle des femmes dans la mission
21:33 Les collections
24:13 Les restitutions
29:18 Conclusion