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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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We Are Just Grains of Sand on This Earth: Tomás Sánchez Draws Giant Forests and Massive Landcapes

Design You Trust

In 1985 he had his first retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. He joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1996. In 2003 a substantial monograph on the artist’s body of work was published by Skira with an essay by the South American poet and Nobel Laureate, Gabriel García Márquez and texts by Edward J.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

the gallery that Krishnamurthy ran out of a storefront in New York’s Chinatown from 2012 to 2017. And it seemed to hold a special significance for graphic designers, not least of all because it displayed the works of designers like Elaine Lustig Cohen , Klaus Wittkugel, and Martens in a gallery setting. gallery in New York?

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Skate culture: No comply

UX Collective

Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. The everything.

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Sketches of Frank Gehry: A Conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

Azure Magazine

He also teaches the course History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. It was shut down in 1960, but was revived, as both a publishing house and gallery, when the Swedish art collector/entrepreneur Staffan Ahrenberg acquired it in 2011.

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“We Want Our Work to Endure.” An Interview with Didi and Sandi Pei

Azure Magazine

The studio was involved in such projects as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (1995) and the German Historical Museum in Berlin (2003). The news was delivered by Bill Walton, the Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts and a close friend of the family. Pei continued to work as a design consultant with his old firm.