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…
Eavesdropping isn’t the noblest action to fess up to. Though when at an event like Art Basel Miami Beach, where many of the local and international gentry are happy enough to sound in-the-know, and opinions fly from every cardinal direction, I’ll take the risk of stepping into a moral grey area. Just call it a…
On view in Saatchi’s Prints & Originals Gallery for another month, Revolutions Per Minute is a celebration of street art as it has evolved in the recent past and a showcase for the considerable, diverse talent evident today. The exhibition is also an acknowledgement of the debt owed to movements that came before; in particular, the musical…
Art has a familiar way of excusing itself from conversation with the untrained eye to speak straight to the soul. Feelings stirred up by masterpieces can be much more poignant than facts known about them. Though, as many a connoisseur might agree, a bit of expertise can enhance aesthetic enjoyment a great deal. Hard to believe, but…
China, Yunnan, Yuanyang Just a moment. The one when the light marries the rice fields, the one when the drowned terraces shine…the water can sing in the canals and flow from the heights of Yuanyang. The ‘Valley of the Purple Clouds’ opens a panorama where the sensual curves of the terraces delicately intertwine the hillsides.…
BY MITCHELL COOPER / What’d you write your dissertation on? Stephen Hawking’s reply would involve a rightly smug remark about the underpinnings of all existence. Using Einstein’s theory of relativity as a baseline, he proved as a young doctoral candidate that the universe really did have a concrete beginning. And the Big Bang has haunted…
It wasn’t the hippies who first passed down the adage ‘make love not war’; it was the ancient Greeks, all the way back in 411 BCE. That’s when Aristophanes’ drama Lysistrata was first performed in Athens, one of the earliest battles of the sexes played out on a Western stage. Power struggles between men from Mars and…
BY EMILY CATRICE / As our friends on the Thanksgiving-celebrating side of the pond sidle in at the sides of symbolically-loaded tables, let’s take a moment to reflect on the dictates of one forward-thinking man who decried traditional ways of wining and dining. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti penned La Cucina Italiana in 1932. A half-joking cookbook for…
Nowadays, Barcelona is teeming with young creative talents. Probably one of the most original among the many is artist and illustrator Sergio Mora (@sergio.mora.art). Novel, bright, playful and a little cryptic, his work will no doubt stick firmly in the back of your mind from first glance. In addition to completing wonderfully illustrated children’s books and collaborating with…