RedBall Project at London 2012: Interview with Kurt Perschke
In making a public work I am very conscious of the history of sculpture in public places, its origins in monuments, and how that leads - for better or worse - into a »
Child's Own Brings Kids' Drawings to Life
As children, we all used to draw fantastic creatures and dream that they would one day come to life. Now, Child's Own Studio (and other custom soft toy creators) are making that dream come true. Parents can send in »
How Munch?! The Scream Sells for $120m at Auction
[/caption] Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's 1895 masterpiece, The Scream, was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder yesterday for a record $119,922,500 at an auction in Sotheby's of New York City. Bidding for »
The Hunger Games: A Book Review
The allegories are thick and rich, but the book falls a little short on that front. There are times when one feels that the themes are being built up to encapsulate the entire human condition of the 21st century, from the spectacle of reality TV to the »
William Utermohlen: Before and After Alzheimer's
Other sketches, such as Car Driver (1996) and Twisted Figure and Chair (1997) show his steady physical deterioration through the loss of motor skills. He represents himself like a featureless dummy, whose soft, »
ESPRIT Redresses into a New Eco Collection
Just in time for summer, ESPRIT is venturing into the realms of the recycled for their new sustainable collection featuring stylish T-shirts and denim pieces. Launching in Hong Kong today, the collection was created »
Six of the Best British Festivals for Feeding your Brain
Inspired by intellectual gatherings like TED and SXSWi on the other side of the Atlantic, 2012 is proving to be the year where the British ideas festival scene has »
The Colourful World of Spain’s Cuellimangui: Street Artist
Cuellimangui comes from a small city in South East Spain (Orihuela). His complicated patchworks of organic shapes bring life to inanimate objects and the abstract forms »
Magical Rhythms
Music sooths the soul. Never has a truer phrase been spoken. Throughout the world, all groups of people have expressed their innermost passions in the form of rhythms. The sheer abundance of musical instruments truly boggles the mind, not only for their numbers, but »
Pamphleting Our Street Walls With Art
Pamphlet is a new platform for artists, organisations and galleries to communicate to the public. High quality posters are mounted onto pubic walls (legally) in the hopes of engaging thousands of people everyday and »
Handbags Made From Bottletops: Ethical and Stylish
While visiting Uganda in 2002, Cameron Saul discovered a wire frame handbag made by local craftspeople using recycled bottle tops. Struck by the idea that this could appeal to the haute couture market, he developed the »
Urban Sharing Experiment
If you saw a neatly wrapped package abandoned on the sidewalk, with writing on it inviting you to open it, would you take the risk? A Belgian band, PSY’AVIAH, has been leaving tens of parcels all over the city of Antwerp encouraging passerbyers to take the plunge »
Creativity
Psychology today says: even those of us not in creative fields must come up with new ideas in order to move ahead. How can we shake up our thinking patterns? Creativity has been pegged to conducive environments, perfect collaborators, personality traits, serendipity, »
The Hunger Games: A Book Review
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in a country called Panem. Panem is a totalitarian society that exists where North America once stood. It is made up of the technologically-advanced Capitol and its subordinate Twelve Districts. »
Mixing Gaming and Good
The ad itself is actually quite unpleasant - at least to these ears. A folksy American wannabe-indie jingle soundtracks a rather corporate ad that leaves next to no doubt it was produced by a large company with access to a lot of funds. However, it is the larger »