How do you program for a dense European metropolitan area, provide glimpses of different European regions in a modern setting, and maintain an open park space? BIG(Bjarke Ingels Group), Copenhagen and New York based […]
DESIGN: Hyperkin Reveals RetroN 5.
Video games were always such a great release & escape for me growing up. When I was younger, I would be found staying out late playing Mario Party […]
DESIGN: Salone del Mobile, Milan
Since 1961 the Salone del Mobile has been one of the design industry’s most important annual showcase for innovative design products and ideas. The stats: Last year exhibitions were […]
ART: All the ISMs
“To each age it’s art, to art it’s freedom” was inscribed over the door of the first gallery to showcase European Avant Garde to the public. It is […]
ART: “KATACHI” by Kijek & Adamski
The mesmerizing syncopation of 2000 silhouettes is “Katachi”, a video made by Polish animators Kijek & Adamski for Japanese indie-rock artist Shugo Tokumaru. “Katachi” means “shape” in Japanese. Each silhouette was extracted […]
ART REVIEW: Salvador Dali: The Making of an Artist
As a kid my favorite artists were everyone else’s: DaVinci, Picasso, and Salvador Dali. I stumbled across art in an old encyclopedia set that was given to us by a lady whose […]
ART: Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present
“Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present,” an exhibition of approximately 100 works drawn largely from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s collection, runs April 18 through […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: AIPAD Photography Show
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD, hosted what is known as one of the most important photographic exhibitions in the field for its 33rd year. Last week the Park […]
DESIGN: James Bond Exhibition at Minsheng Art Museum
Good design definitely has a place along side the conceptual. The Minsheng Art Museum, in Shanghai, China proves this as former hosts to contemporary artists Gabriel Lester, Qi Qin, and Lee Kit among […]
ARCHITECTURE: Toyo Ito Wins Pritzker Prize
Japanese architect, whose face and work never age, Toyo Ito has been named the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, which is considered among the highest honors in Architecture. The […]