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The smell of paper, the tickling roughness of a cover under your fingertips, the joy …
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D for Dirty Dancing, L for Labyrinth, R for Rambo, Z for Zelig. It’s the …
The news is fresh from last night: The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius has won Best …
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Suppose you received a mysterious invitation to the cinema complete with place and time, but …
Although it might be the last, like the Maya predicted, the year 2012 is already …
If your favourite Christmas pastime is sprawling on the sofa and watching a stiff dose …
From the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Royal Wedding, from London’s …
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It’s a real pleasure to visit Turing during the TFF: we saw people of every …
Worthless industrial materials, pure shapes and natural or decaying spaces. These are the elements …
75 years ago, the first issue of Life made its debut in the US. Ever …
Tomorrow’s the day: Italy’s third greatest cinematic event, Torino Film Festival, is about to start …
Recycled materials, sci-fi inspiration and an odd post-apocalyptic imagery. Gaël Brienne, a.k.a. Nanan, is a …
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Until a few years ago, it would have been almost impossible not to notice the …
Three years after his tragic and untimely death, cult American author David Foster Wallace is …
The tangled immediacy of Murmur, the Fall atmospheres of Out of Time and the gloomy …
It was 1910. Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his men left for a Terra Nova …
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Twenty years ago, Nevermind by Nirvana made its debut. It was 1991 – “The Year …
Reality as seen through the unconscious. That’s the recurring theme of a major exhibition on …
A Necropolis of Nomads in Kazakhstan, Athen’s first cemetery, the historic center of Salvador de …
Three seconds for the pose, ten minutes for the chemical exposition and what you get …
A nazi-era bunker turned into a 3,000-square-meter art gallery hosting works by Olafur Eliasson, Damien …
Take an Academy-Award winning film director, a legendary rock band and its most reluctant component. …
Turning an apparently uninteresting gesture into pure poetry. Sub City is a short film series …
There’s a map of the things to do on your own in Paris, a map …
Is there anything less exciting than planning your journey with the classic travel guide? …
Visiting a posthumous exhibition conceived by the featured artist herself is quite an unusual event, …
“The only woman in Italy who ever new what painting is”. That’s how Italian art …
A computer program generating fairy-tale plots. Although it might sound like something devised by the …
What’s the link among Lady Gaga, Polaroid and a New York City non-profit organization providing …
Remember Freddie Mercury, born Farrohk Bulsara? Well, he would have turned 65 today. To honour …
Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, …
A young man decides to join the army. First he gets a military haircut, then …
Has it ever occured to you to get lost in the vastness of the planet …
1700 issues, 5 years of work and 140 images. Next Fall, the New York Times …
They listen to old folk songs, shave with straight-razors, dress like John Boy from The …
Rockstars, writers and comic-strip writers. There will be more than just movie stars and directors …
More than 40,000 digitised classic books available for the iPad, with original page markings and …
It is displayed in the windows of New York City’s coolest shops and it seems …
New York City is a magnet for creativity – this is common knowledge, of course, …
From the 120-foot roll of teletype paper on which the story was originally written to …
It happens in London, at nighttime. Advertising billboards and neon signs are surrptiously turned into …
Summertime, and the beaches are crowded. Unbelievably crowded, despite the paradoxical fact that most people …
A brand new remastered edition of the band’s discography, including tons of unreleased music and …
Tweed, tartan, Wedgewood china, shortbread cookies, spicy tea mixes from the colonies… In other words, …
It would not be summer without the music festivals. Check out the major events – …
A story to tell and a cell phone. This year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, …
The warm season opens with a couple of much-awaited releases: Bon Iver’s second album and …
After saving the last Polaroid production plant for integral instant film and starting to produce …
“Want to buy a Tower Records store?”. This sentence, ironically pronounced by Sean Parker/ Justin …
Truman Capote (above), Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg… Not …
How does a great scene come to life? What hides behind the much praised magic …
Like a living thing, the city changes. For six years, James T. Murray e Karla …
13,500 square meters sheltered by a giant glass roof: that’s the Nef du Grand Palais, …
Capturing the moment doesn’t mean assaulting the subject with a super-close shot, nor does it …
A look at the events the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death, and particularly the …
Venice, 1957: Adriano Olivetti entrusts architect Carlo Scarpa with the task of creating Negozio Olivetti, …
Tilda Swinton, Courtney Love, Sophie Calle, Milos Forman, Michael Stipe, Kirsten Dunst and many others …
This month’s new music releases include a couple of interesting new albums, each of them …
Code-name: Sombrero Galaxy. Constellation: Virgo. Distance from the Earth: 28 million light-years. That’s just one …
The first honorary Palme for Bernardo Bertolucci, an hommage to Jean-Paul Belmondo, a celebration of …
Water, ice, stone and a diffused haze that makes the outlines blurred and uncertain. Young …
From Savannah to San Diego: 3,000 miles covering the enormous diversity of the American landscape …
Plexiglas sculptures, arte povera, mirror paintings, lights and reflections, and performances. 100 works created between …
What if the city’s public spaces became authentically public? On March 30th, a good number …
Candid, intimate, unguarded images of a rock myth. As well as being the U.S. tour …
50 years young. The Salone del Mobile turns fifty and is once again ready to pleasantly …
If you had to walk everywhere you’d go in your whole life, of course you’d …
Picasso, Mirò and Dalì. What did they paint before becoming three iconic figures of the …
Do not expect the sparkling neon lights or the disposable luxury of casinos a night …
Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Correggio, Tiziano, Tiepolo, Canova, Bernini and many more. On …
After a months-long countdown, the day has finally come: MIBA, Barcelona’s first Museum of Ideas&Inventions has …
There’s no limit to the MacBook sticker-mania. After the popular vinyl decal with Snow Whiteseemingly holding …
Sixty seconds to tell a story. To accompany this year’s Hollywood Issue of The New …
Historic vacuum cleaners, mixers and washing machines. Approximately 200 electrical appliances turned into musical instruments …
Massive hunks of steel being dumped into the ocean. This is not yet another eco-disaster, …
If you think a tweet is just a volatile thought, you’d better think again. Your …
If all great movies leave us with questions, then Inception – Christopher Nolan’s instant cult – …
Back in 1914, while Futurism shook Italy and France was ruffled by Cubism, in Britain …
Trees, trains, birds, telephone booths. Familiar objects and creatures mysteriously cast into an eerie world …
While New York City gets ready for the 44th edition of Tribeca Film Festival (starting on …
Faces, eyes, and smiles on the walls of the cities and on the roofs of …
Friday February 11, 2011 felt like a normal day in Tahir Square, Cairo. With these …
A huge salt mountain studded with sculptures in the middle of Piazza Duomo, between the …
Observing an artist who dares to venture upon a different field of art from his/her …
Five years after his death, London opens the first great event devoted to Syd Barrett, one …
Investigation of a myth: a task force of art historians, paleographers, archivists and historians digs …
Fantastic, otherworldly and yet familiar: bubbles are Tom Storm’s obsession, a fleeting lens through which he …
Jodi Bieber, author of the shocking Time magazine cover portrait of an 18-year-old Afghani girl …
Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi, both Iranian, have been the protagonists at Berlinale’s 62nd edition. The …
Roma Termini, indoor, daylight. While the trains belong to the passengers and passing travellers, the …
The inevitable identifiability of accessories: a pair of glasses with a familiar frame is all …
Although they seem to spring out of a sci-fo movie, the abandoned bunkers of World …
It all started back in 1999, when Will Ramsay decided to create an event to …
Moustached, stout, educated, and shrewd. Pellegrino Artusi, the famous “inventor” of Italy’s gastronomic tradition, is the …
You don’t need to travel through time or to another planet to prove the existence …
We’ve all seen his bizarre heads made of complicated compositions of flowers, fruits and animals, …
The standardization of cultivars has accustomed us to imagine fruits and vegetables as homogenized objects, …
Fron Manhattan’s Skyscrapers to Brooklyn’s brownstones. The whole of New York City on the pages …
In the beginning was daguerrotypy, then came cianotype, brought to the fore by the first woman photographer, Anna …
In downtown Detroit, the streets are lined with abandoned hotels, ruined movie houses and deserted …
The Italian debut of Boardwalk Empire, forcefully bringing the world of cinema to the small screen, …
If 2010 was the year of food trucks selling gourmet food on the sidewalks, 2011 …
If videogames are an escapist outlet for avoiding real-world troubles, then why not apply their …
VIP Art Fair is not an art fair for famous people, but the first online …
Keyboards, electric guitars and amplifiers on the room-service menu to compose your next song, and …
Ancient and contemporary, darkness and light, consistency and transparency. The last work by British light …
Remember the famous opening sequence of Casablanca? In the movie by Michael Curtiz, a huge map …
What if reality suddendly turned into a musical, just like in the movies? Dancers Among Us …
Altough he defined himself “a sculptor more than a painter”, Modì’s sculptures are still mostly …
Remember what we said some time ago about the New Yorkers unawarely treading on unknown worlds? …
Are you experiencing vinyl nostalgia? Making up for the immaterial nature of mp3 files, the …
The programme is wide and rather interesting, featuring a great diversity: there are big names …
The winning photograph by David Chancellor has quite a strong subject: a teen girl hunter …
Smokers, cell-phone gabbers, hospital-scrubs wearers and yawners. Danish photographer Peter Funch captures human similarities and …
Research, innovation and ethics: in the future, the real individuality of a product will have …
On January 27, 1967, singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco committed sucicide during the Festival di Sanremo as …
A closer look at the everyday world can offer many unusual discoveries. In a time …
It was 1960. With a visionary style, just apparently detached from the truth, Fellini changed …
The relationship between art and trade has always been difficult and controversial: in order to …
Font designs, magazines, poster illustrations and logos. In Switzerland, type design has been a high …
A small film festival open to every single web user: 6,500 selected videos, nine award …
Lightness, verticality and transparency: the trademark qualities of Norman Foster’s design are hardly mistaken. The …
The Russian art world shows its brand new face in Turin, where the freshest and …
Have you ever wondered what happens to fascia signs when companies move, update their logos …
Observation, reproduction, repetition. Here are the main acts that give birth to the visual poetics …
‘I’m inspired greatly by mid-century illustration and design and also contemporary work that mirrors that …
“Futurperspectives” is the meaningful title of this year’s edition, that will involve a new location …
Perfection is a quality of nature. Inspired by the geometrical structure of a sea-urchin skeleton, …
What if the digital icons that we’re so used to took shape and became tangible …
Pure reflections. llusory distortions of the natural world: the changing seasons and colors, foliage, weather, …
Against the coldness of industrial pieces of furniture, Marama plays with concepts and with old …
665 photographs of 152 different objects found at roadside, depicted from various vantage points and …
Take a glow-in-the-dark gallery for modern art and place it in a field on the …
If you happen to be in Rome in the next few days, keep an eye …
The city, deconstructed. Serge Mendzhiyskogo’s collage photography turns busy cityscapes into paintings with a Cubist …
Dalì’s inner and outer landscapes. From the chaos of reality to the silence of the …
Artists can’t help being creative, even when they take a break. The guys at YouWorkForThem …
For many years, the world relied on floppy disks to store information. As these physical …
Art, science, photography, and exploration. Celebrating the greatest age of astronomy the world has ever …
Accelerated life, moving in jerks. A city condensed in miniature format. In this little masterpiece …
Classical and fantastical, scientific and surreal. The newly designed Dalì Museum in St Petersburg, Florida, …
People and places. Silhouetted faces and bodies refecting themselves on an intricate labyrinth of buildings …
Still life with plastic flowers and computer cables. Showing the similarity of structure between nature …
The world seen from behind a car window on a rainy day. Bill Sosin’s City …
Artificial reefs in a human shape. Establishing an intricate relationship between modern art and the …
Capturing the moment in time: light, shadows and coloror shades. As an ultimate tribute to …
If human imagination is the limit to our creative entreprises, then good ideas are very …
Atemporal faces on a red background. Salustiano’s painting fuses the rigour of Renaissance with contemporary …
A part of Danish cultural history, and a symbol for modern design. Createdby Finn Juhl …
Art in form of charity. Preserving the memory of what happened in Haiti on January …
It’s not Venice, and it’s not Cannes. Throughout its 63 year history, the Festival del …
Unusual correspondences. Can you transfer the literary qualities of a writer to an object? Polish …
A place for sperimentation. Drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking and animation: Todd St. John, best known …
All children grow up, except graphic designers. Nurturing creativity requires the preservation of our primary …
Make every picture count. This is the mantra that Martin Wilson repeats to himself since …
A contemplation on the micro and macroscopic in nature. Mari LaCure investigates the vastness and …
A sharp and light presence on the London skyline, disappearing in the air like a …
A printer, a computer, and a webcam. Going back to basics requires a little technology. …
Against the extinction of printed books, the only way is making them dfferent and really …
Community-driven art. Can the act of painting make a real difference in the world? Jeroen …
Afterlife, or the the life of abandoned places. Documented with black & white photography, each …
A sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue. Four type designers share their ideas on the web, …
In our digital age, outdated systems of communication have become useless and inaccessibile. Starting from …
Paved surfaces form the arteries of the modern world, tempering our innate proclivity for exploration …
Sea voyages, inland expeditions, and space travel. Dan McPharlin is an explorer of distant worlds, …
A sublime language, refined and yet universal. The year 1810 gave birth to Fréderic Chopin, …
A subltle dialogue between history and contemporaneity. Surrounded by solid walls, transparent volumes and floating …
Empty rooms, crumbling walls, suspended objects. Michael Eastman explores Cuba’s most decadent soul, the ghost …
A black and white fusion of food and design. Forget traditional recipe books: floating somewhere …
New York City, 1941. The streets and faces of the Big Apple break free from …
Destroy the system from within? An infallible strategy for moderate revolutions. Kenyon Yeh buys furniture …
Twenty-six letters on a human scale: shiny, black and graphically flawless. Not giant pieces of …
Packing tape, Plexiglas and light. From different gradations of shade, discernible faces emerge, and an …
Milan is many different cities in one. The urban landscape and its continual metamorphoses become …
Glass and titanium arching over the water. Paul Andreu leaves a clear and indelible mark …
Old school and avant-garde: the work of Safet Zec has two souls: one safe and …
Oriental-style minimalism. Black and white, light and shade, openings and closures, substance and transparency: the …
Jumpology, or the art of jumping: an informal, liberating and revealing act. Fifty years ago, …
Real titles, ideal combinations. Jane Mount imagines entire shelves of books, depicting them with graphic …
Gentleness and severity. Inspired by the purest essence of Fifties design, Jeff Muhs shapes precious …
A metropolis compressed into words, carved by hand, one letter at a time, into huge …
Energy autonomy: sustainable architecture aims for independence of resources and finds its first good example …
With record players consigned to history, vinyl looked destined for oblivion. But its old crackles …
Fluidity, fusion and transparency: a symbolic dialogue between familiar landscapes and emerging architecture. The Grand …
Four simple questions to determine what type you are. Which font do your deepest tendencies …
Tackling lack of space with ingenuity and creativity is one way for an architect to …
The mathematics of creativity: three-dimensional images generated by complex calculations. Tom Beddard gives form and …
How to achieve the impossible: to combat the extinction of glorious Polaroid film, a courageous …
To bring nineteenth century typefaces back to life in an impressive contemporary project: inspired by …
100 years of design, from early twentieth century Vienna to the present day: Kubus celebrates …
Culture will save us. Not only from ignorance, but also from the hectic pace of …
When applied to real life, the condensed language of user menus takes on a surprisingly …
Drawing on the age-old Milanese tradition of twinned buildings, the new face of the Fondazione …
In good art, nothing is superfluous. Its beauty permeates us even in its most barest, …
In architecture, abandoning the usual forms can lead to extraordinary results, especially if the source …
No special effects, but lots of fragments from a shared fictional world. The first film …
A year’s worth of creativity of the highest order. Collated in a single volume, D&AD …
Landscapes that are reduced to their essentials, yet still draw us in: Jon Klassen is …
Unconventional materials. Baptiste Debombourg abandons paper and pencil in favour of staples and white walls, …
Open, adjoining, connecting spaces. The Rolex Learning Centre is a subtle architectural exercise on the …
January 2010. Matt. W. Moore arrives in Paris with a simple plan: to convert an …
Typography Diary, or the art of transforming everything into a source of typographical inspiration. Shapes …
The architecture of contrasts: hot and cold, wood and metal, curves and straight lines. The …
Snapshots capture the moment. But reality eludes the single point of view, demanding a more …
Real art and imagined art: the comparison arises from the alternation of emptiness and substance, …
A light touch, but a bold and linear one: the ironic becomes iconic without fuss …
Environmentally friendly design thrives on simple ingredients: basic shapes, extreme modularity and recyclable materials, like …
A surreal landscape depicted in an old black and white movie: the world according to …
Choosing a typeface is not just about aesthetics: when it comes to printing, every font …
Proportions uncertain, position unknown, orientation nonexistent. David Maisel invites us to lose ourselves among clean …
Posthumous revelations. An enthusiast buys some old negatives at an antiques auction, develops them and …
Sensory deception. The virtual becomes more real than reality itself, the virtuosity of computer graphics …
Typographic fragments from old Berlin: lettering, notices and signs. Valuable exhibits from an urban landscape. …
Squares, circles and triangles: the geometry of a universal language. The complexity of the world …
Reality can reveal itself in an ensemble or through individual features. Todd Richardson opts to …
Kiltro, in Chilean dialect, means “crossbreed”. A perfect definition for the home designed by Supersudaka, …
Musical preferences and states of mind: an ambivalent, even dangerous relationship, so handle with care. …
See the world from on high, hidden among the foliage. Baumraum satisfies the childish desire …
Glass and steel launched towards the sky: Jean Nouvel is the name behind the MOMA’s …
Future-worthy vintage. The stylus of the Void LP player takes the form of a red …
All it takes to alter reality is a little rule-bending. Thom Faulders explores the relationship …
Emptiness and substance, volatility and consistency. Rebecca Ward uses mild but potent weapons in her …
The case of a complex personality, Concrete Moon is building with two souls: curved and …
Tokyo, Paris, New York: the city fades into the background, revealing itself in photographic details, …
Explorations. Sketches, drawings, thought experiments. With the blog as a tool, the artist uses the …
A contemporary return to roots: the family tree gets a new look. In the capable …
It’s not a mouse, nor is it a remote control or a wooden toy. Skål …
Glimpses of war, life and beauty. Penetrating images that transcend the two dimensions of their …
Collage, drawing, engraving and stencils. In the multi-layered world of Ana Ventura, nothing is what …
Floppy disks and camera film, along with hitch-hiking and hand-written letters: objects and habits once …
Design that imitates nature: forms become simpler, materials are reduced to the bare minimum. Styling …
Colourful, amazing, kaleidoscopic: that is how the world appeared to whole generations of young readers, …
A collision of opposing forces: the breaking of a wave, the shattering of light on …
The memory of the world, even the immaterial world, is safeguarded in images. We can …
Music evolving into illustration, colour, graphic design, work of art. In 1938, in an office …
Photographic impressionism. If the lens is a brush that sketches nature, then its images, despite …
Herzog & de Meuron, or how to convert a power station into London’s temple of …
Taste is cyclical. In other words, time changes the rules of aesthetics, altering their meaning …
The United States, first half of the 20th century. In an era of avant-garde, realism …
Once photography arrived, reproducing reality was no longer the mission of art. Along came impressionism, …
A book cover is a fashion statement. Not enough to make it a bestseller, maybe, …
Variations on the theme of classic photography. Images that encapsulate the history of the 20th …
When architecture becomes art, we see it differently. Respect creates distance, separating places from their …
An electronic wall that lights up according to mathematical sequences generated by the movement of …
Symbolism in the service of design. Vladimir Usoltsev takes inspiration from the lotus flower to …
Politicians, directors, architects and artists, not forgetting friends, lovers, liberals and conservatives: Swedish designer Archie …
It might seem like a simple dilemma. On one hand, a typeface: clearly two-dimensional, certainly …
Where does the art end? There’s no change in colour, just unbroken whiteness. Where does …
Every biography traces a path, joining distant points and creating unpredictable junctions. Mario Schifano brings …
Where does the infinite begin? At Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the works of masters such …
Q. How can good intentions, brainwaves and states of mind be captured for posterity? A. …
It takes a young design studio to remind us that the object often seen on …
First there’s curiosity: it’s hard to make out the embossed numbers at first glance. Then …
A bookcase that considers the books’ feelings. Inside, the book becomes a living thing, where …
Urbanek photographs colour meeting water, a micro-second before it dissipates, capturing the shapes that emerge …
At what point do art and design meet, transforming our perception of a period into …
Take a web page. Add a gallery of clips in which various musicians test their …
Contrasts. Warhol, Man Ray, Koons: contemporary art within the walls of a 1930s tea room, …
Perth is an outpost. Far from the other Australian cities, connected to five continents yet …
Less is more. Take a wall clock and remove one component at a time, to …
Pure wood, free of pollutants, from the forests of the North Pacific. Basic forms, shaped …
Could art be the secret of the new American dream? From the nation that sees …
Pick an old industrial complex, bursting with history, on the banks of the river Lambro. …
An empty wall, stolen from the streets of NY. Your choice of handwriting. Try your …
Understanding wood, reading the grain and the signs that indicate where it grew and what …
Every morning I pass the river on my way to work. I’ve never seen the …
Timo Stammberger photographs corners of the metropolis, finding peace and silence under the swarming streets. …
A vortex of tape and binding rising from the ground, giving the impression of something …
Packaging: the wrapping that holds a good. It has to attract attention, arouse interest and …
Where does artistic genius conceal itself when the means of expression are increasingly serialized? In …
Repairing is a creative challenge. The opposite of consumption is imagination: re-thinking the use of …
Sculpture is the art of removing, liberating. Architecture transcends construction when it redesigns the landscape …
Touching, feeling. Taking a photograph is like piloting an airplane: an unnatural everyday action, freezing …
Creating history, and making it a shared experience. Robert Capa’s camera took the eyes of …
Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are. A title hints …
Nations, cooperation, peace. How can graphic art convey such principles? An experiment: morph the shapes …
Democratic photography. With a Polaroid, every location becomes a photographic set, every subject an actor. …
&: a unique character, neither a letter nor a punctuation mark, more a conceptual symbol …
Four artists split between Belfast and New York. A book that sails the ocean every …
1954, Caracas. Giò Ponti designs and furnishes Villa Planchart. In the profound quality of each …
Empire and environs: Rome’s Maxxi museum catalyzes the energy of Italian art. Alberto Garutti depicts …
Glossy surfaces, characters combining classical and cartoon iconography. The childish style masks a serious mission: …
Leave behind every thought, every attempt to take control. Give in to the ocean: let …
\r\n Hella Jongerius tests the capacity of materials and colours to merge, generating the kind …
Good design can change the world. In 1964, American marketing and modernist European design came …
His architecture punctuates the spiky contours of Big Sur with its sinuous, hypnotic structures, stage …
For 120 years, the Eiffel Tower has embodied creative daring and the leap into the …
The setting is the most banal of lives, transfigured by the perspective of a girl …
The essential is invisible to the human eye. Experiencing a land under transformation every day, …
High end DJ desks. An irresistible temptation for the artistic ego: if rock stars can …
Salone del Mobile 2009, Tortona district. If fashion occupies space, design gives it back to …
The port of Le Havre: imposing concrete and steel structures reflect centuries of trade. By …
From reality to mathematical abstraction and back again. Sophie Baillot uses the tools of pure …
Hard to understand at first glance. Repeating series of geometric structures, split by vague lines …
White, to reflect light from the Tagus. Sinuous like the ocean, in the undulating roof. …
Create a flowerbed in a car park. Mark out a cycle path using stencils. 99 …
A reflection of oneself in a 10-metre tall photo spread across a wall or a …
When looking at art, we have a right to ask whether it is intended or …
1907, USA: the birth of the postcard, travelling pictures depicting familiar sceneries. Walker Evans collected …
Write an ‘A’ with a ball of wool, an ‘E’ with freshly cut grass and …
Zaha Hadid has observed the geometric perfection of corals and the hypnotic motion of waves: …
Striking bands of colour, escaping their frames, enliven virgin walls. Light exists in a world …
Ukiyoe, ‘pictures of a floating world’. Painting is a meeting place for man and nature, …
A shared aesthetic landscape of objects, shapes and colours creates identity. Symbols of Italian life …
Communication in the third millennium is graphic: words clothed in images. What if images replaced …
Nature always has the solution. At the start of the 20th century, industrial art and …
Less is more. A (sort of) simple idea: use mobile phone technology to create a …
Q. When is a book not a book? A. When a small publishing house translates …
Tempting us to screw our eyes up in order to focus properly, Swedish photographer Sannah …
Linguistic short circuits. The first pictorial report of the world’s graffiti writers is born: photos …
Rubber walls: lightweight, natural materials shaped into resilient structures to define new areas in any …
The rules are dead, long live the rules. Milan, 1909. Futurism explodes: art reflects the …
Concrete and steel, distant echoes of industry. A vast, contemporary space for art that detaches …
Slow, studied movements; telling looks; beguiling, rarefied exchanges. Wong Kar Wai introduces a new cinematic …
Shepard Fairey, aka Obey Giant, uses the infinite reproducibility of print as a weapon. Honest …
A theatre rediscovered in the suburbs of Paris. A bare, unadorned stage, leaving room for …
Laughter may bury us someday, but applause can only do us good. The English artist …
Dark and daunting, yet light and airy. The ‘black diamond’ is a library, concert hall …
A bookshop hidden among the fabrics of the Latin Quarter in Paris since 1951. Wooden …
Keep it simple. Stories: pictured, narrated, lived. Robert Redford celebrates 25 years of the Sundance …
Does the market choose art or does art shape the market? New voices on the …
Madsberg’s drawings illustrate and educate, with colour, a light touch and a retro feel. After …
Casa Necchi Campiglio is the paradigm of an absolute aesthetic. Piero Portaluppi’s design celebrates rationalism, …
Art fills the spaces left devoid of words, blank pages whose fascination is in their …
Contemporary figurative art. Pop culture personalities interpreted by Elizabeth Peyton. Realism is a trick of …
L’Europeo brings a new dimension to analysis becoming a collection of opinions and images on …
Beauty wins out over convention. Since 1889, cane has been hand-moulded to the ideas of …
Art subverts perspectives and breaks the continuity of common sense. At the Museo Arca, Vercelli …
Bach, the Beatles, the Berlin: Katia and Marielle Labèque distil the sublime on the piano …
Every track is a masterpiece, a synthesis of sounds and atmospheres. 30 loose, unconnected pieces, …
Space emerges from colour. Like the art of Rothko, variations of light create borders. Time …
\r\n USA, 1950-1990: pop art celebrates the aesthetics of consumer goods; design combines it with …
Torre Velasca in Milan, Casa Zelco in Trieste: photographs on canvas of contemporary architecture. Marco …
A rest area for the eyes. On Italy’s most congested motorway, Santiago Calatrava’s creation elegantly …
Wonderful web graphics introduce Italics, an exhibition and review of Italian contemporary art from 1968. …
The Dutch design factory, since 1993: everyday objects are the pretext for creative flights of …
