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The Venezuelan artist’s inventive furniture has earned him a devoted following. The topless...
The Experimental Edge of Open Architecture
With a sculptural panache, Beijing-based Li Hu and Huang Wenjing embrace the vastness of space.
Quarantine Culture: 6 Ways to Experience Design and Art Without Leaving Your Home
A decade-long Jon Rafman project, online repositories of sound art, Kelly Wearstler’s virtual
Specific Objects, Enduring Influence: Architects, Designers, and Artists on Donald Judd
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Yoon Ahn on Her Deeply Personal, Genre-Defying Style
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Meet 5 Rising Stars Signaling a New Wave in Collectible Design
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Jamian Juliano-Villani, Today’s Most Tireless Artist, Readies a New Chapter
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Spring’s New Shoes and Bags Veer Toward the Sculptural
The season's accessories take shape to a new dimension.
Quarantine Culture: 8 Ways to Experience Design and Art Without Leaving Your Home
An online art fair, ASMR videos, streaming symphonies, and other resources for you to enjoy from...
An Art Exhibition That Questions What It Means to Be Human
“Uncanny Valley,” on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, examines how artificial...
In Philadelphia, Alex Da Corte Reinvents an Allan Kaprow Classic
Restaging a storied 1962 happening, the star artist trades chickens for… let’s not spoil it.
Architect James Wines Remembers Willi Smith, the Fashion Maven Who Was His Close Collaborator
In the 1980s, Wines created the stores for Smith’s pioneering label, WilliWear. Now he’s...
Bewitching Heels, Informed by Strip Clubs
The British designer Sarah Ansah fuses chemical experiments and a fascination with sci-fi, pop...
Eileen Gray, Unsung Modernist Architect, Comes Into Full View
With more than 200 furnishings, sketches, and archival documents, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery...
Snøhetta Cofounder Craig Dykers on How He Pushes His Non-Hierarchical Firm to Take Risks
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Andy Warhol's greatest hits, Pattern and Decoration in American art, Lygia Clark's experimental...
Success on Instagram Turns a Digital Design into a Physical Object
Digital designer Andrés Reisinger received orders for a chair that didn’t actually exist. He’s
The American Diner Gets a Mediterranean Makeover by a Famed London Restaurateur
Mourad Mazouz, the creative force behind Momo, Sketch, and Au Bascou, can't stop reinventing the...
2020 Pritzker Prize Goes to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. Here Are Some of Their Greatest Hits.
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Neri Oxman and Sir Norman Foster on the Future of Design
The venturesome Oxman talks experimental materials and lunar habitation with the renowned architect.
9 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From Chicago to Brussels and Beyond
Inflatable Cycladic artifacts from Objects of Common Interest, MoMA’s landmark Donald Judd...
At Loewe’s Fall 2020 Presentation, Radical Pottery Hides in Plain Sight
Creative director Jonathan Anderson collaborated with the Japanese artist Takuro Kuwata, whose...
Designer Duro Olowu Brings His Maximalist Sensibility and Cosmopolitan Eye to Chicago Museum Show
The Nigerian-born British fashion innovator is borrowing art from public and private collections...
10 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From Paris to Los Angeles and Beyond
Lucio Fontana’s spatial experiments, a collection of kimonos, witchy works, and more.
NeueHouse’s New L.A. Outpost Aims to Be a ‘Cultural Speakeasy’
Located in the historic Bradbury Building, the coworking space combines original architectural...
In Los Angeles, a Design Gallery Goes Home
For its third West Coast iteration, The Future Perfect’s game-changing gallery concept christens...
Bjarne Melgaard in Full Bloom
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To Collect Radical Italian Design, Resilience Required
Design collector and Surface consulting creative director Dennis Freedman spent more than...
Frieze Week in Los Angeles: A Guide to the Action
As the art fair alights for a second time, the city is filled with visual pleasures.
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7 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From San Francisco to London and Beyond
The cartoonish clairvoyance of Peter Saul, Kerry Schuss’s experiments in Kirlian photography,
What We Loved at the Stockholm Furniture Fair
The premier event for discovering the latest in Scandinavian design runs through February 8. Below,
Curator Alison Gingeras on Revisiting One of the 20th Century’s Key Art Shows
Inspired by a MoMA classic, “New Images of Man” at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles shows dozens of...
8 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From Toronto to São Paulo and Beyond
A reconstruction of Verner Panton’s sci-fi dreamscape, the bewitching debris of Sarah Sze,...
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