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Explore - Art
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Friday Finds 05.18.12
Wrap up the week with our roundup of architecture, art, and design finds.
written by: Sara Ost05.18.12 -
Surveying Frieze New York
Fact #1: New Yorkers are more allergic to bridges and tunnels than plants and trees. Fact #2: Manhattanites generally enjoy exploring other boroughs as much as they like the Times Square...
written by: Faith-Ann Young05.12.12 -
Friday Finds 05.11.12
Wrap up the week with our roundup of architecture, art, and design finds.
written by: Diana Budds05.11.12 -
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow
The American painter Alex Katz is one of my favorites. His flat, graphic realism, and paintings of the windswept coast of Maine recall Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, and the cover of some sun...
written by: Aaron Britt05.04.12 -
Floating Landscape Made of Net
I recently came across Numen's creative interactive installations, a mix between art and design, on the landscape architecture blog Landezine. These are the same guys who strung up an alien-like...
written by: Jaime Gillin03.05.12 -
Seinfood Posters
No Soup for You, the marble rye, Junior Mints in the operating theater, Kenny Roger's chicken, Mackinaw peaches, the big salad. Seinfeld never skimped on the food jokes, and a new show of 20 prints...
written by: Aaron Britt02.28.12 -
Art from Architecture
Highlight Gallery's new project, 3020 Laguna Street In Exitum, is open to the public for just one more day–tomorrow, Saturday, February 25, from 2:00 to 7:00 PM. So if you're in San Francisco...
written by: Jaime Gillin02.24.12 -
12 Questions for Luis Urculo
I've long been intrigued by the overlap of design, art, and architecture, and one of the most interesting practitioners working in that realm today is Madrid-based Luis Urculo, whose works tread...
written by: Diana Budds01.18.12 -
Massimo Scolari's Drawings at Yale
Visit the website of the Italian architect, designer, and artist Massimo Scolari and you'll be surprised to see how many drawings and paintings are lumped in with his more three-dimensional work....
written by: Aaron Britt01.16.12 -
Boisbuchet as a Canvas
The Spanish architect, artist, and designer Luis Urculo once said, "I no longer know what an architect is and what an architect should do...." This past summer Urculo led one of the...
written by: Aaron Britt01.12.12 -
Q&A with Marimekko Designer Erja Hirvi
At Dwell we've always been fans of the bold prints by Finnish textile design house Marimekko and in honor of their 60th anniversary we toasted ten timeless prints and challenged you to vote on your...
written by: Ralston O'Neill12.21.11 -
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Posters
Fashion maven, style icon, and in this case, promoter of things post-war and British, Paul Smith joins the cause of the new film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by designing and selling a quartet of...
written by: Aaron Britt12.12.11 -
Q&A with Artspace Founder
If the "Introduction to Art Collecting" story in our December/January 2011 issue whet your appetite for art acquisition—or if you simply have a blank wall crying out for some...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.03.11 -
Hot Houses
When Seattle’s fire stations needed an overhaul, the city selected local architects to give these ultimate live/work spaces a modern-minded update. ...
written by: Tim Newcomb09.27.11 -
Alex Garcia Exhibit
I met the artist Alex Garcia nearly a year ago (we were introduced by the architect Alejandro Sticotti, who like Garcia is a native Porteño), and since then I've stumbled onto his work in a...
written by: Jaime Gillin08.19.11 -
A BoConcept Makeover
When we moved into an Edwardian apartment in San Francisco's Mission District four years ago, we trucked in our furniture, set the pieces where we thought they made sense, and haven't changed much...
written by: Jaime Gillin07.11.11 -
Matthias Heiderich's Berlin
Self-taught photographer Matthias Heiderich has spent the past three years roaming around Berlin, snapping photos with his medium-format film camera and Pentax digital camera. During his "...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.25.11 -
New Olds at Israeli Design Museum
There's an interesting new museum in Israel, just south of Tel Aviv, with a corkscrewing exterior of rust-red Cor-Ten steel: Design Museum Holon, designed by Ron Arad. Their forthcoming exhibition...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.13.11 -
Printed Matter
Considering his cache of bold-faced employers, the Swiss-born graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter (1907–1984) should loom larger in the mid-century design canon than he does....
written by: Aaron Britt05.05.11 -
Q&A with Stephen Burks
I ventured to Stephen Burks' "Man Made" exhibit a few days after returning home to New York City from a trip to India. The colors and textures of Indian culture, though not directly...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer04.11.11
