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The retina-bothering brilliance of riotous design talents Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan is back. The duo, whose work is a regular frequenter of these pages, have celebrated this year's edition of the London Design Festival with a typically vivid...
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In São Paulo, just two polluted rivers provide water for 21 million people; globally, freshwater species have declined by 76% since the 1970s; deforestation, war, urbanisation, and pollution are wreaking havoc on our water supplies. 650 million of...
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'The concept is simple,' say the team behind Japanese multi-venue arts-hospitality venture BnA Project, 'we create art hotel rooms with artists, the artists receive a percentage of the booking fee every time their room is booked. Room design, from...
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'The Versailles that I have been dreaming up is a place that empowers everyone. It invites visitors to take control of the authorship of their experience instead of simply consuming and being dazzled by the grandeur. It asks them to exercise their...
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Aguascalientes, Mexico. The city and region of the same name don't come with major international recognition, but a new 200 acre cultural project set in former railway workshops is changing that. Macro Espacio para la Cultura y las Artes (MECA) is...
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Brining cultural activity in the French city of Nantes under one umbrella since 2011, Le Voyage à Nantes unites unique permanent public art like Estuaire, 29 riverside artworks from the likes of Erwin Wurm and Felice Varini, and François...
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Converting the rooftop of Le Corbusier’s incredible La Cité Radieuse (locally nicknamed La Maison du Fada, or 'The House of Madness') to an art institution in 2013, Ora Ito has welcomed esteemed names Xavier Veilhan, Daniel Buren, and Dan Graham...
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From Sol LeWitt’s 1960s conceptual art structures to Rocky IV, Chicago-born New York-based artist Rashid Johnson's Within Our Gates is a living, breathing romp through high- to low-culture influences and interjections. Evolving since...
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Having been around Art Basel Miami and Milan Design Week, Studio PSK's Polyphonic Playground is back home this weekend, for a two-day event that honours the cultural dawning underway at Stratford's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Emergent...
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The folks at Secret Garden Party have garnered a well-deserved reputation for deftly smearing the lines between music, art, and theatre. Set amongst the beautiful pastures and lakes of Abbots Ripton in Cambridgeshere, Secret Garden Party places...
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Driven by a desire to paint outside the canvas, Katharina Grosse's exhilarating installations force their viewers to asses their relationship with their surroundings — they are often monumental in scale, always memorable in...
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Founded in San Gimignano in 1990, Galleria Continua is one of the art world's true pioneers. Away from the traditional urban backdrop, in an Italian town steeped in history, three friends — Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi, and Maurizio Rigillo...
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With works spanning the design of buildings, landscapes, installations, exhibitions and objects, the projects of Asif Khan MBE explore sites of complex narratives, community empowerment and questions of identity. Collaborating with Canada Water and...
City Notes
Inspired by the golden age of nightlife, Calgary's Sweet Loretta Bar nods to the throbbing energy of 1970s discos and vintage sound studios, the late-night venue situated in the city's design and arts district and offering an inclusive space for...
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Located within Newson’s Yard — a recently conceived design hub on the Pimlico Road in London’s Belgravia — Wildflowers is a new neighbourhood restaurant, wine bar and deli with a focus on seasonal, high-quality ingredients cooked over...
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Chef Santiago Lastra's latest venture sees London-based A-nrd Studio create a metaphorical home-away-from-home, where the locally inspired fare and affable atmosphere of family-owned Mexican restaurants unite with a contemporary twist informed by...
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Moving from Chicago to New York City is a thrilling yet daunting leap. You’re trading deep-dish pizza and the stunning Lake Michigan views for bagels and the electric energy of Manhattan’s streets. Whether you’re chasing a career opportunity,...
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