I’m a rock person and she’s a bog person,” says Shelley McNamara of herself and Yvonne Farrell, her partner in Grafton Architects. She’s referring to their respective birthplaces in the stony west and the soggy middle of Ireland. Or perhaps it was Farrell speaking, in which case the pronouns need to be switched – my notes unpardonably fail to keep track of the badinage between them.
Super Natural examines the perception of nature as a perfect, composed image. This series explores colors, forms, and industrial processes through functional objects made from epoxy resin in a range of scales. Eschewing the monotony of identical objects, these works resemble the structure of nature: similar at first glance yet varied upon inspection.
Its elegant shape was inspired by ancient Aegean figures and its pleasingly mottled surface made it feel like it had just been dug up from the ground. Yet when it was first sold in the 1970s, this understated vase by the late British potter Hans Coper changed hands for just £250.
Glenn Ligon's first solo exhibition in Italy borrows its title from a line in Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem Ma Era L'Italia Nuda E Formicolante/But It Was a Naked and Swarming Italy, in which he depicts the privations and poetic possibility of the country during the post-war period.
At Milan Design Week 2018, a brand-new company from Spain, Nagami is making its official debut with a pioneering project, combining computational design and large-scale robotic 3D printing — Brave New World: Re-thinking Design in the New Age of Technology.
To celebrate their seventh year at Salone del Mobile, COS have partnered with American artist, Phillip
K. Smith III to create Open Sky – a light and reflection-based art installation.
The piece is housed in Palazzo Isimbardi, a building dating back to the 16th century located on
Milan’s Corso Monforte. Influenced by this setting, Smith’s inspiration for the installation came from
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, design objects, furniture, jewelry, public art and video installations.
VOLTA14 moves location for the upcoming 2018 edition, inaugurating the former COOP distribution center at Elsässerstrasse 215, adjacent to Novartis Campus, the Basel headquarters of the global healthcare company.
For this book, Danish artist and photographer Kasper Akhoj documented the ongoing restoration of E-1027, Eileen Gray's modernist villa in France.
Public engagement with politics has changed dramatically since 2008. Discover how graphic design and technology have played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times.
Graphic design in the form of internet memes, posters and protest placards is being used by the marginalised and powerful alike to shape political messages like never before
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To celebrate the gallery’s twenty-year anniversary, R & Company is thrilled to announce the opening of a new space in TriBeCa at 64 White Street.
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