Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2021

At the project’s inception in 2007, Marks Barfield was asking a crucial question: What should a British Mosque look like in the 21st century? With each structure expressing its own distinctive identity, the art campus effectively becomes its own art exhibition, featuring four monolithic sculptures installed in rich dialogue with one another.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

He has explored theory and design from 1900 to the present and incorporated his vast knowledge into publications, exhibitions (including at the 14 th Venice Biennale, where he curated the French Pavilion) and lectures. His work is no less ecological than other designs, but he is not interested in exhibiting this aspect.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It’s far from the city’s largest galleries and museums, financial towers and upscale fashion boutiques — or a subway station. Suburban space is also the focus of the recent “Housing Multitudes” exhibition at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture. Here, Toronto’s peripheries offer another lesson.

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Eye on Design

JUNE 10, 2022

As Robert Smithson wrote in a press release for a 1967 exhibition of language-based art (which he famously described as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read”) at the Dwan Gallery in New York: “Here language is built up, not written.” Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Every Word Unmade (Neon Alphabet), 2007.

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UX Collective

JULY 11, 2021

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. If visitors kept quiet in the exhibition space, they would only see their mirror images.

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Shillington

JUNE 14, 2021

On top of this, she is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, contributes to Imprint and Uppercase magazine and has co-authored numerous books, including The Typographic Universe, American Typeplay and New Modernist Type. She’s also created covers for O, HOW and the iconic TIME magazine. Veronica Fuerte. Luke Choice.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Drawing inspiration from souks and Islamic geometry, the more-than-24,000-square-metre archipelago of 55 assembled white cubes (encompassing 23 galleries, an auditorium and a children’s museum) on the waters of man-made Saadiyat Island finally opened its doors a decade later.

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