We in the cultural sector enjoy a good diatribe about soft power. That is, patrimony’s uncanny ability to attract rather than coerce affections and followings. It’s become a sort of catchphrase employed when attempting to justify the sway of the arts to more skeptical others; just how massively music, imagery, literature, cinema, sports, cuisine et al. have shaped, and continue…
Home, wherever it’s made, always awaits those who have roamed far and fancy a visit. To celebrate the end of the year, we asked eight different artists we worked with in 2017 to illustrate a view of any place that felt like home. The work we produce as a design and animation studio is the collaborative…
‘Tis still the season for plenty of family fun! Kids little and all grown up alike will delight in BRICKLIVE Christmas, a festively hands-on LEGO® extravaganza at the Saatchi Gallery until 7 January 2018. BRICKLIVE Christmas offers a unique experience with plenty of activities and interactive art workshops based around the beloved brick. You can wonder at…
The French-American maîtresse of confessional art, Louise Bourgeois, was born on Christmas Day 1911. Of her own inconveniently timed birth she said, “I was a pain in the ass when I was born. All these people had their oysters and champagne, and there I came. My mother was very apologetic and the doctor said, ‘Madame Bourgeois, really,…
A Place Both Wonderful and Strange is a new anthology that brings together the work of thirteen international photographers in an alluringly odd narrative, inspired by Twin Peaks and the work of David Lynch. Edited by Fuego Books, the design of this photobook repeatedly presents the concept of duality so present in Lynch’s universe, beginning with something…
Winter is here. To celebrate the chilliest season and something Game of Thrones fans have known for a while now, it feels right to turn to the work of Eyvind Earle (1916-2000). An American practitioner of Magic Realism, his name maybe isn’t as terribly well-known as it ought to be, though his landscapes infiltrated childhoods the world over and set the…
BY EMILY CATRICE / What made the Belle Époque so memorable? The answer may vary depending on one’s drink of choice; it must have gone by awfully fuzzily for a certain fast-living lot. If there’s a single art historical misfit-bon vivant really known for reveling hard in the spirit of the age, it’s Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A stranger to neither the…
You know, there’s only one place where you can get figurines of sushi cats and the Statue of Liberty drinking a nice cold beer, and that place is, of course, Japan. Gachapons are these toys inside tiny capsules sold randomly in vending machines. Having been around Japan for a long time, they’re already deeply rooted in…
BY ALICIA COSTAS / Enjoying a banana split so close to the Winter Solstice has never felt so right. That may have something to do with the less-than-frigid temperatures inherent to Museum of Ice Cream‘s newest location in Miami Beach, which officially opened its doors to the public yesterday. This is the museum’s fourth inauguration in fifteen…
The verdict is in, paint it all PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet in 2018. It’s a highly motivated choice, more so a philosophical choice, by a colour institute perhaps most widely known for its annual prophecies regarding what’s hip on the visible spectrum. Pantone isn’t just trying to sway spring runways or whims of interior design, it’s…