Sven Fristedt occupies an important place in the history of Swedish textile design, particularly through his expressive patterns created from the late 1950s onwards. Born in Sweden in 1940, he…
A painting can make you feel that something is right, even before you can explain what it is. The same happens when you enter a building and instinctively know where…
Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection of essays, edited by Marc Treib. The book investigates how built environments and landscapes record, store, and transmit human…
What happens when a museum stops behaving like a single monumental building and instead becomes a landscape to wander through? Along the shores of Jinji Lake in Suzhou, China, the…
A long queue awaits to witness the one and only nostalgic experience of the much-awaited exhibition of Snoopy in Style in NYC. The colourful palette, the artistic characters and the…
The background of any masterpiece is as much part of the artwork as the strokes that the artist makes. This background, or seemingly ‘empty’ space, is referred to as the…
Cities are often organised around movement, productivity and constant activity, leaving little room for the slower processes of observing, experimenting and simply staying with an idea. And yet, these slower…
Death is considered eerie and frightening. Yet, when you step into Cimitero Monumentale, one of Milan’s largest cemeteries, you experience a quiet peace. The cemetery boldly and beautifully honours the…
The relationship between artistic composition and interior space through colour, form, texture and spatial arrangement When we look at art and interior design, we see that they have some things…
Immersing oneself in art seen in a museum is a lost art. In today’s day and age, when digital media and technology have taken over, one art collective has utilised…
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh A painter who was never famous in…
Theaster Gates grew up on the South Side of Chicago, helping his father with the family roofing business, hauling buckets of tar and learning early that almost anything broken can…