Coming up: Cuba’s Arts & Cultural Scene
Today, the United States opened its embassy in Havana, overlooking the city’s Malecon – a policy move that also suggests there will be many opportunities ahead for Cuba’s artists, writers, […]
Category Archives: Art & Design
Today is World Lion Day 2015
World Lion Day – what does it mean? People have revered, honored – and feared –lions for thousands of years. The lion in history, art, culture, and human affairs represents […]
Design Books: 35 You Must Read
Fast Company’s CoDesign blog writer Mark Wilson shares 35 design and creativity books that famed art schools – RISD, Pratt, Parsons, California College of the Arts, among others– say are […]
Coming Up: Stories for the Summer Season
Summer 2015: Is there an idea, an inspiration, a calling, a voyage in our selection of upcoming stories? Come back and see. Havana: What’s up in the arts, architecture and […]
Frida Kahlo Art Garden Life
Frida Kahlo’s life and art cannot be summed up in a single exhibition – but her love of Mexican culture and its natural features, the pre-Columbian world, the interconnectedness of […]
Photo Gallery Frida Kahlo Art Garden Life
Coming: Frida Kahlo Art/ Garden/ Life
Frida Kahlo — one of Mexico’s most celebrated artists — is the theme of The New York Botanical Garden’s Frida Kahlo Art. Garden. Life exhibition that runs through November 1. […]
CITIES: News in Brief
What’s happening in green design, architecture, urban life, sustainability ?Check out our notes on Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Paris, Baku, Delhi, Rotterdam, and New York, the newly awarded European Green Capital for […]
Milan Expo 2015
MAY 1 marks the opening of the 2015 Expo Milano (Milan Expo) – a six month global showcase and exposition in Milan, Italy, around a universal theme, Feeding the Planet: […]
Michael Graves: Amsterdam & Rotterdam His Favorite Design Cities
Princeton NJ-based architect Michael Graves designed over 350 buildings and some 2000 everyday products in his lifetime – from laundry hampers to a whistling teakettle, from luxury goods for Alessi […]
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