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Established in New York in January 2006 as a joint venture between e-flux and Artforum, Art & Education reaches an international network of more than 80,000 visual-art professionals and academics on a daily basis through its website and e-mail list. Its news digest—Art & Education announcements—distributes information about some of the world’s most important contemporary... Continue Reading →
There are three types of materials that are ideally suited for working around salt water. These are stainless steel, aluminum and plastics. Stainless Steel Stainless steel (SS) is probably the best material to use our around saw water as far as durability goes. There are many grades of stainless steel and some or more corrosion... Continue Reading →
monumental crystallized artworks by japanese artist tokujin yoshioka, exhibited in all forms and facets make up the solo show ‘tokujin yoshioka – crystallize’, at museum of contemporary art tokyo. amongst the seven stranded, crystal ‘spider’s thread chair’ (which designboom has previously covered here) and the towering, chromatic architectural work ‘rainbow room’ (see designboom’s coverage here)... Continue Reading →
Bernard Tschumi's theories on architecture, developed in the 1970's through gallery installations, texts and "advertisements" (left) focused on contemporary society's disjunction between use, form and social values, rendering any relationship between the three to be both impossible and obsolete. His thoughts on disjunction led to the design of the Parc de la Villette in Paris,... Continue Reading →
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure... Continue Reading →
Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art. His early exhibited artworks were collage works influenced by homoerotic drawings and clippings from beefcake magazines", science fiction, and early pop art. He primarily identified himself as a painter during this time, but... Continue Reading →
Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing in large-scale sculptures and earthart or land art.
In 1983, eleven of the islands situated in Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, were surrounded with 6.5 million square feet (603,870 square meters) of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out from each island into the bay. http://christojeanneclaude.net/
Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view The nine artwork below were in fact done for the Hermès famous brand, who was releasing a new perfume and asked him if he could do some artwork on the theme of "Hermès Voyages" or "The Travels of Hermès" - who... Continue Reading →
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