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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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DM 15th Anniversary: Tanya Aguiñiga Spills the Milk

Design Milk

Tanya first began her business somewhere around 2001, per her estimate, designing, making and selling homegoods. The first project that landed Tanya’s work in galleries and on early blogs, as well as helped spread word of her work, were her hand-felted birds. Felt Birds. ” Felt Chairs.

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

Canny

Did You Know Grand Central Station Has a Whispering Gallery? But unknown to some is the whispering gallery within the domed intersection of the lower floor walkways. The building is nicknamed “The Egg” due to its shape, and from afar looks more like a sculpture than a building for performing arts. Credit to Albany.com.

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‘Art Is Art’ Celebrates the Vast and Varied Creativity of Hundreds of Disabled Neurodiverse Artists

Colossal

All images courtesy of Chronicle Book, shared with permission Spurred by the belief that art changes lives, Florence and Elias Katz founded Creativity Explored in 1983, a San Francisco-based nonprofit studio and gallery designed for disabled neurodivergent artists.

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Where did this interaction come from??—?a brief history of interaction design

UX Collective

Max Ernst put an ax beside his sculpture to be used by the visitors “in case they did not like the object”. In 1961 , Allan Kaprow defined “Happenings” as a form of [performance] art in streets, garages, and shops as opposed to the general exclusive approach of art galleries and exhibitions.

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Meet the Jury for the 2021 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

Founded in Milan in 2001, her eponymous studio focuses on these industrial product design projects as well as architecture, art direction and strategy consulting. Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto established his eponymous firm in 2000, after graduating from Tokyo University’s Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering.