odk.design has released AESTUS, a series of stratified wooden vases that explore a new synthesis of traditional materials and modern technology. Carved from hundreds of layers of wood by an industrial robot, the vases capture the fluidity of the machine’s movements in the depth of the wooden texture. Merging art and engineering, AESTUS is meant… [Read More]
Amos Rex Museum opens up
Finland’s capital Helsinki has gained a major new cultural institution and a striking new public space with the completion of Amos Rex. The art museum opens after a five- year, €50 million project designed by architecture firm JKMM, which has seen the refurbishment of the landmark 1930’s Lasipalatsi building in Central Helsinki. At the heart… [Read More]
AGO announces Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room – Let’s Survive Forever as permanent installation
Yesterday, the AGO announced the successful completion of the #InfinityAGO crowdfunding campaign to acquire Canada’s first Infinity Mirror Room artwork by internationally renowned artist Yayoi Kusama. Information Courtesy of AGO Thanks to over 4,700 #InfinityAGO donors and the David Yuile & Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, Yayoi Kusama’s INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, is coming… [Read More]
Être Avec Toi Restaurant mixes art and lifestyle
MASSIVart, W Montréal, BPC, SID LEE Architecture and Ivanhoé Cambridge have collaborated to create the new Être Avec Toi, a restaurant with an eclectic mix of art and lifestyle. Showcasing an explosion of bold murals, the restaurants celebrates Montreal’s diverse artistic culture by featuring local artists only. From walls to tables, the design is a true celebration of art…. [Read More]
Mazda Sculpture – Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015
Sculptor Gerry Judah has designed the Centrepiece for the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrating the Mazda Motor Corporation’s unique motorsport heritage with a powerful fusion of sculptural innovation and engineering precision. The helix like sculpture is composed of 720 steel beams of varying lengths stacked in the manner of pristine matchsticks. The top of the… [Read More]
VIDEO: Yi Ou Lai Opening Show – Thousand Silk Threads
An amazing blend of art, architecture and fashion in the Yi Ou Lai Opening Show. Recipient Collective and Xiao Ke dance company have been invited by Italian curator Davide Quadrio to create a show in Suzhou, near Shanghai. The underlying theme of the show was the encounter, the influence and the mutual fascination between Chinese and European culture.
VIDEO: Luminescent Radiolaria window installation by Holly Sumner
Mixed Greens presents Luminescent Radiolaria, a site-specific window installation by Holly Sumner. Known for her work that often combines informational diagrams with depictions of a living organism, Sumner presented large-scale ink drawings of Radiolaria on translucent logarithmic paper for each of the three windows on New York City’s Mixed Greens gallery on 26th Street.
New Museum MORE by Hans van Heeswijk Architects opens up
Tomorrow marks the opening of the new Museum MORE by Hans van Heeswijk Architects, showcasing Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art. The new museum, an extension of Gorssel’s former town hall, is a private initiative and will open at 10am on Tuesday, June 2nd. In 2012, Hans Melchers, the initiator of Museum MORE, decided to display his collection of modern Dutch realist art… [Read More]
BD Barcelona presents new collection of pixel-art cabinets
BD Barcelona has launched a new cabinet designed by Cristian Zuzunaga that brings together craftsmanship and graphic art. Most often we don’t think of cabinets as a piece of art, but with each new design piece BD Barcelona reminds us that we do not have to sacrifice aesthetics for storage. The Dreams cabinet is quite… [Read More]
Twice Light brings strangers together during NYC Design Week
Twice Light is a collaborative photographic and relational art project created by Italian photographer Gianluca Vassallo in collaboration with Foscarini. Held during NYC Design Week, the project aimed at forming small, temporary communities by inviting people to take a moment to stand under the light to connect with a total stranger in the streets of… [Read More]
