Design, Fashion, Featured
Traditional Values: Valeria Florescano
Inspired by Mexico’s rich glass works tradition, Mexico City-based artist Valeria Florescano translates that legacy into modern home accessories, jewelry and installations. Florescano shares some of her favorite projects – and the creative rationales behind them – with us below. Valeria Florescano has been awarded scholarships for Pilchuck School of Glass, Corning Museum of [...]
Art, Featured
“Three Heads Six Arms” by Zhang Huan
Now Showing: “Three Heads Six Arms” (2008), a colossal and beautiful temporary sculpture by celebrated Chinse artist Zhang Huan, makes its world premier in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center this summer, in conjunction with the Shanghai-San Francisco Sister City 30th Anniversary Celebration. Set in the Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza, [...]
Featured, Photography
Rivers of Ice
Asia Society Presents “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya” Now through August 15, 2010 -By Matt Mulholland Since the first recorded expedition to reach the summit of Everest in 1921, less than 3,000 individuals have reached the apex of the world’s highest peak. David Breashears has been to the top of Everest and back five times. [...]
Art, Featured, Film
YOUTUBE Play Announces Jury
The very exciting Guggenheim Museum/YouTube collaborative competition – YouTube Play – is on the hunt for the world’s most creative videos. As we reported last month, YouTube Play was conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Open to the global online community, the competition is [...]
Books, Featured, Photography
If These Walls Could Talk: Bill Diodato’s “C/O Ward 81″
Photographer Bill Diodato’s first monograph, “C/O Ward 81,” is a hauntingly beautiful photographic tribute to the demise of The Oregon State Mental Asylum’s Ward 81. Opened in the late 1800s, Ward 81 was established to provide women with psychiatric needs help and isolation. The Salem-based asylum was also the famous setting for the 1976 movie, [...]
Fashion
WARMI: Modern Knits
Posted on 16 July 2010
French-Colombian designer Sylvia Toth’s fashion line, WARMI, blends tradition with modernity by interpreting Latin American folk craftsmanship with a European flair. Launched in 2008, every WARMI collection is entirely handcrafted by women weavers of the Colombian villages of Tausa and Sutatausa. Each handmade item is numbered and signed by the artisan who made it. Their [...] Continue Reading
Design
PETALS
Posted on 15 July 2010
Tsunami Glassworks Incorporated, one of ArtSlope.com’s faves, introduces a new series of custom designed platters called PETAL. Inspired by the soft curve of a flower petal, design partners Kriston Gene and Eva Milinkovic have created hand blown and etched platters measuring 20″x8″, available either etched or shiny. And there are eight color combinations [...] Continue Reading
Art, Books
Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture
Posted on 07 July 2010
For its newest title, Phaidon Press has gathered ten respected curators to choose 100 of the world’s best and most important emerging contemporary artists. The resulting collection is CREAMIER: Contemporary Art in Culture, the fifth addition to the publisher’s Cream series. Packed with over 700 color images from a variety of mediums, CREAMIER is a [...] Continue Reading
Architecture, Design
Jean Nouvel Designs 2010 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Posted on 06 July 2010
World renowned French architect Jean Nouvel has designed England’s 2010 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. (Several images below!) Launched in 2000, this ongoing, annual commission invites internationally acclaimed architects and designers to create a temporary (3-month) structure on the Gallery’s lawn. The entire process allots only six months from invitation to completion, an opportunity to demonstrate each [...] Continue Reading
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