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The 40th anniversary of the Memphis Group is celebrated by French brand Saint Laurent with two exhibitions at its Los Angeles and Paris concept stores
The 40th anniversary of the Memphis Group is celebrated by French brand Saint Laurent with two exhibitions at its Los Angeles and Paris concept stores
Swedish design duo Front presents Seven Stories About Mirrors, an exhibition that explores the complex relationship between humans and their reflections.
This month we’re looking at sites which nail their mobile version, or which are mobile only!
Known as the Supreme Master of Landscape Photography, Ansel Adams is by far the most important name among famous landscape photographers.
While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever – offering hope to an injured world
Photographer Cristina Coral has an eye for subtle alterations that transform seemingly ordinary scenes into surreal images brimming with illusion. Often centered on a solitary woman, the conceptual photographs rely on texture, pattern, and the figures’ contorted poses. A limp hand protrudes from a bush, strawberry locks drape over a brocade couch, and a teacup precariously balances on a pair of feet.
Coral, who is based in Italy but frequently travels to Germany and Slovenia, currently is working on a project based on memory and what’s forgotten. The mixed-media works, some of which she’s shared on Instagram, fuse photographs and textiles in a way that allows portions of the original image to peek through.
A new biography of the painter Isabel Rawsthorne highlights how talented women have often missed out on the recognition they deserved
The French illustrator talks us through how she landed on her characteristic style and shares some anecdotes from her time as a travelling artist.
A how-to guide for planning and facilitating online workshops and events, with reflections and resources from Priya Parker, CreativeMornings, and others.
Robert Granjon lived in the 1500s. The new style of typeface he invented in 1557, modeled on contemporary Gothic cursive handwriting, and later came to be know as Civilité, after the Civilité of 'etiquette' books that the typeface often appeared in. Although Granjon really anted his Civilité to become the national typeface of France. However, it never really caught on, and could compete with Roman and Italic fonts.
With a composting toilet and two water tanks, A Room For Tomorrow aims at minimizing waste, particularly through water recycling. Learn more.
The French government has announced plans for a sustainability law that will ensure all new public buildings are built from at least 50 per cent timber or other natural materials.
tech group electronicos fantasticos has found a way to make techno music by hacking barcode scanners and turning them into musical instruments.
the ultra-lightweight frames combine slim titanium temples and injected frame fronts made with the gravity evo® high-tech polymer.
This should have been a rollercoaster. Instead, it’s a sedate trudge through giant canvases – giving you the bottle but not the booze, the facts but not the feeling
A selection of recent paintings by artist John Wentz.
American conceptual artist who cremated all his paintings in 1970 and later effaced the images of public figures with stick-on dots
This week the Paris Musées added 100,000 digital copies of its artworks to the public domain, making them free and unrestricted for the public to download and use. From Claude Monet's “Setting Sun on the Seine at Lavacourt” to Paul Cézanne's “Portrait of Ambroise Vollard,” the collection contains wo
Swooshing in just in time for the start of the ski season is Méribel’s newest ski-in/ski-out hotel. With admirable restraint, the Paris-based interior architect Pierre Yovanovitch has gently terraced into the side of a meringue-white slope to spread Le Coucou’s 55 rooms, suites and chalets over ten cascading levels of rugged stone walls and spacious terraces.
The male gaze has shaped art’s obsession with the naked body. Mary Beard offers a female perspective
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