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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty? What is beauty?

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The Many Layers of Cornelia Oberlander’s Landscapes

Azure Magazine

Honoured with monographs, biography, every kind of award, and now an exhibition of her work organized by the West Vancouver Museum and the Art Gallery of Alberta. In 1953, she attended Richard Neutra’s lecture at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which electrified her along with just about everybody else in the audience.

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THE JOURNALIST ILLUSTRATORS: PAUL HOGARTH

Illustration Art

The best journalistic illustrations seem to combine an enthusiasm for facts, a love of drawing, and a third element-- a personality or character which presents the subject matter in an interesting manner that a photograph could not. Hogarth grew up poor and his father, a butcher, tried everything to dissuade his son from becoming an artist.

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Reclaiming the Sacred Space of the Divine Feminine in Nature

Feature Shoot

Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery; © Rania Matar. Justine Kurland, Jungle Gym, 2001; Chromogenic color print, 30 x 40 in.; through January 20, 2020, presents the work of 12 women photographers who create a new way of seeing and engaging with the natural world. But why wait until it’s too late?

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The State of Branding: New York (From New York Flags, to New York Brands)

Canny

This seems to us to present the idea of New York’s position in the world as the economic bridge between the East and the West. Finally, the motto ‘Excelsior’ is presented on the white ribbon at the bottom of the seal, representing a brighter and better future. Did You Know Grand Central Station Has a Whispering Gallery?

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Bata-Ville: A Shoe Company’s Quest for Global Utopia

Azure Magazine

Converted into offices, condos, galleries and lofts, former warehouses and factories are home to a new urban economy — one fuelled by laptops, real estate and the flow of global financial capital. In North America, Bata shoes disappeared from the shelves, with Canada’s last Bata stores closing in 2001. a’s elevator office.

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Thirty hypotheses on interface aesthetics

UX Collective

In other words, Aesthetics, a concept which at the time did not exist, is then presented as the basic pleasure of the senses. The interface of the Gran Turismo 4 game had met with great success by presenting a menu in the form of a map of a city whose interactive elements are in 3 dimensions ( [link] ).

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