posted on July 3, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]
Categories: Art
Artist-installers, apprentices, and student interns are currently installing 100 Sol LeWitt wall drawings, to occupy nearly an acre of space at MASS MoCA - the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Eventually, they will be put on show as Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective. That exhibit opens on November 16, 2008.
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Shannon Anderson | Comments[3]
Categories: Architecture, Events
Carmody Groarke’s Skywalk for the London Festival of Architecture promises to kickstart the transformation of Bloomsbury in Central London into a new urban hotspot.
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Catherine Osborne | Comments[0]
Categories: Architecture, Urban planning, Events
London's Festival of Architecture is just that – a celebration of all things architecture-related that runs for a month each summer in the British capital. A central attraction is the large number of temporary structures on display around the city. Among the most inventive: London architecture firm Tonkin Liu's Corus Fresh Flower, a brilliant yellow portable shelter that resembles a lily in bloom. Azure senior editor Catherine Osborne reports.
Posted on June 26, 2008 by Paige Magarrey | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design
Aurélie Mossé is redefining the relationship we have to the home. The recent MA Design for Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins grad aims to develop deeper relationships between textiles and their owners with her interactive and sustainable designs. Azure's Paige Magarrey caught up with Mossé as she finished exhibiting at the Textile Futures Degree Show to talk about her ideas, the design industry and what the future has in store.
Posted on June 25, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future assembles 14 works made since 1980, a period in which Kapoor's sculptures and installations have grown increasingly ambitious and complex. The first U.S. museum survey of Kapoor's art in more than 15 years, and the first ever to be seen on the East Coast, the exhibition, on at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art until September 7, premieres a new resin sculpture and features many pieces on view for the first time in the United States.
Posted on June 20, 2008 by Susan Nerberg | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design
Suffering from writer’s block? Can’t get that great marketing idea down on paper? Go for a stroll to get your creative juices flowing. Oh, darn, you’re at the office? Don’t worry. The Walkstation, introduced at NeoCon 2008 by Details, allows you to walk and talk, to walk and type, and to walk and work at the same time.
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