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British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg poses uncomfortable questions about our evolving relationship with the natural world

Aimee Shirley — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:30:43 +0000

Imagine Mars populated by plants. Rather than speculatively placing humans on the red planet, the British artist takes a non-human perspective with her project The Wilding of Mars. By simulating the growth of a wild terrain seeded with plant forms from Earth that thrive over millennia, Ginsberg wants us to imagine a future where life

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Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee: Hegemonic narratives

Aimee Shirley — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:29:24 +0000

It’s a mild October morning in London, one where the sun blazes through the almost-bare tree branches, and I find Elizabeth Lee sitting outside a cafe on Broadway Market eating salty French fries and sipping on a beer. Unexpected? Perhaps, but I sense that’s exactly how the Singapore-born, London-based photographer would like to be depicted.

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Celebrating a new generation of makers, a female-led Italian design fair thinks outside the artist’s booths

root — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:02:31 +0000

In the historical center of Naples in the south of Italy, Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli are creating Edit Napoli, an alternative design fair that focuses on craftsmanship, collaboration, and affordable consumer products. With a rich history in traditional craftsmanship, the city of Naples and its surrounding areas are filled with workshops where the culture

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Turkish photographer Eylül Aslan fixes her gaze on socially constructed beauty ideals

root — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:52:05 +0000

Born and raised in Istanbul, Eylül Aslan began taking pictures as a way to express and explore her own sexuality. Her work simultaneously became a tool to help overcome the oppression she felt growing up as a woman in Turkish society. Finding freedom in her self portraits, where she alone was in control of the

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Defining future classics that blend heritage and innovation with design house &Tradition

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:02:11 +0000

Upon entering what feels like a sumptuous modern home in the center of Copenhagen, there’s no immediate tell-tale sign that this is anything other than someone’s personal residence. An enviable plant-filled courtyard leads inside to a sweeping staircase and floor after floor of contemplative living, dining, and study rooms—all overlooking Copenhagen’s oldest park, The King’s

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After a book tour, the desert calls. In conversation with iO Tillett Wright

root — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:01:57 +0000

Io is the fourth largest moon in the solar system. As the innermost Galilean moon that orbits Jupiter, it’s also the most volcanically active, erupting with sulphur resulting from the moon being stretched and squeezed. Named after this energetic, seemingly angry moon is 32-year-old iO Tillett Wright. The native New Yorker is, like the moon

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Growing the creative economy in Detroit with founder of Afrotopia, Ingrid LaFleur

Aimee Shirley — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:00:04 +0000

It’s a sentiment that rings true for politician, artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur. Creative imagination and looking onward into the abyss of our collective futures is a core aspect of her ongoing mission. And, as one of the most democratic institutions in the US, the public library was a fitting place for the former mayoral

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Sevil Peach: Shared eco-responsibility

root — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:25:31 +0000

Behind the throng of people on the south side of the river, the area known as Shad Thames is seductively quiet, with cobbled streets that weave around converted warehouses. Completed in 1873, what was then the largest warehouse complex in London housed tea, coffee, and spices, all within easy access to Victorian riverboat transportation. “When

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Narayan Khandekar takes us inside the Harvard art laboratory housing the rarest color pigments in the world

root — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 04:28:16 +0000

Almost as captivating as the Rothko Murals, apparently, were the views from the adjacent windows out onto the city—thus the curtains were often left open and the light allowed to stream freely into the penthouse dining room. It doesn’t take a scientist to guess the level of deterioration to these works over several years of

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Berlin-based fashion label Perret Schaad unveil their latest design at Pitti Uomo, Florence

root — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:59:31 +0000

A highlight of this year’s event, MINI Fashion’s Beyond Native was held in the Alcatraz section of Stazione Leopolda in Florence. Launching with a capsule collection—consisting of five designs from five up-and-coming international designers—each piece is telling of the individual designer’s country of origin and where they live now. For Johanna and Tutia this meant

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