The stone sculptures from Zimbabwe in South Africa are now among the most important new art forms of this century. Shona sculptures combine tradition with feelings and personal expression.
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When Antonino Sciortino was just eight years old, he began to forge iron in his father’s studio. He particularly worked with ‘soft’ iron, which is relatively pliable and thus easier to work with. For Serax, he has designed an exclusive collection.
Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi started creating the Akari Light Sculptures in the 1950s. He chose the name “akari”, a word that means “light” in Japanese, connoting both illumination and physical lightness …
The Danish architecture firm BIG has a real knack for spectacular design. Its recently constructed building “The Twist”, which opened in 2019 in the Sculpture Park of the Norwegian Kistefos Museum, fascinatingly bridges the gap between art and architecture – quite literally …
Celebrating female bodies through designer Sinéad O’Dwyer’s wearable sculptures
Directed by Rei Nadal, this fashion film captures Sinéad O’Dwyer’s wearable sculptures moulded from fibreglass, as they exaggerate and emulate the female form …
Rotganzen created its first a Quelle Fête prototype in 2009 and sold its first artwork under that name in 2011. In the years that followed Quelle Fête became their most famous work and grew into one of the most coveted collector’s series worldwide.
Zash, Bsss, Mhh, Ahh… at the boutique hotel between the sea and Mount Etna, you can hear many sounds. We spoke to owner Carla Maugeri to discover where they are coming from and what other sounds can be heard at the Sicilian country house.
Galerie Gmurzynska is showing a retrospective of the entire oeuvre of the legendary Austrian artist Christian Ludwig Attersee in its two Zurich exhibition spaces. The exhibition brings together paintings and sculptures from the 1960s through to his latest, cross-genre paintings from today.
This spring, ÆTHER/MASS is unveiling four new objects at the Collectible Fair in Brussels. Each piece in the new collection serves as an exploration of new and undiscovered processes, materials, and production techniques. Despite the minimalist aesthetic of the pieces, they carry a profound and layered symbolic meaning.
White marble, Tuscan wine, medieval villages or how to become a sculpture yourself – there is a lot to experience near the Locanda al Colle…
Los Angeles, CA — The LA Art Show, LA’s largest and longest-running art fair, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center February 14-18, 2024, to kick off the city’s 2024 art season. Guided by the leadership of LA Art Show producer and director Kassandra Voyagis, the 29th edition welcomes the return of the fair’s signature curated program DIVERSEartLA.
MOCA presents an outdoor installation by Los Angeles-based artist Larry Bell. Commissioned specifically for the Sculpture Plaza at MOCA Grand Avenue, Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest is a signature, space-defining work, at once creating a public art space while also echoing and highlighting the geometric forms that comprise the museum’s Pritzker Prize winning Arata Isozaki-designed building. This installation was generously gifted by MOCA Trustee Carol Appel, who has served on the board for four years, and her husband David Appel.
Montréal is opening a new chapter in its architectural history: The recently inaugurated, carefully restored Maisonneuve Library from 1912, with its new glass wings, is an exemplary success story of how the past and present enrich each other. The award-winning architectural firm EVOQ was in charge of the renovation and extension.
A wooden museum dedicated to the musician Bruce Springsteen is being built in New Jersey. In keeping with the style of the working-class poet, it will be a rusty container in a wasteland.
Roy Lichtenstein, the master of Pop Art, is 100 years old. The ALBERTINA Museum is celebrating the artist with a comprehensive retrospective that brings together over 90 paintings, sculptures and prints.
The fusion of creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the world of design and architecture. We spoke to three designers who are reshaping the future…
With the Shanshui Firewood Garden in China’s Sichuan province, Mix Architecture translates architectural heritage into a new formal language. Light screens made of suspended firewood plumb the space in a new way.
In 2023, to mark Serpenti’s 75th anniversary, Bulgari launched an international artistic initiative called Serpenti Factory, focusing on the snake as an endless source of creative inspiration. Their approach encompasses many aspects of the emblem, from heritage to craftsmanship, to multi-sensory technologies and the advertising campaign celebrating the 75th anniversary of the motif, linking past, present and future…