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Explore - Art
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Exhibiting Interest
Get your information from curators, professors of contemporary art, critics, and other collectors through your local arts organizations, newspapers, and art schools.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
A Very Eames Christmas
Even if you can't pony up the cash to buy a living room full of iconic furniture by Charles and Ray Eames doesn't mean that there aren't some Eames-related stocking stuffers to splurge on.
written by: Laure Joliet12.17.08 -
Art Start
Curatorial manager Jennifer Strate O’Neal calls Creative Growth Art Center the “homestead” of a now-flourishing creative community in Oakland, California.
written by: Chelsea Holden Bakerphotos by: Doug Adesko02.26.09 -
Branching Out
Arborsculpturist Richard Reames has spent the past 16 years making more than 100 sculptures, chairs, pieces of furniture, tool handles, mailboxes, and fences out of living trees.
written by: James Nestorphotos by: John Clark02.26.09 -
The Making of Dwell with Chris Gardner
To open our September 2009 apartment-themed issued, we dreamed up Dwell’s ideal apartment. Not content to play mere decorator, we tried on the role of developer and enlisted architect Craig...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake07.27.09 -
Rhythms of Modern Life Exhibition
While I was in Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami a couple weeks back, I ducked into my favorite Miami Beach museum the Wolfsonian to have a look around.
written by: Aaron Britt12.18.09 -
Michelle Lord
Michelle Lord is a visual artist based in Birmingham, England. For the UK’s Architecture Week 2007, she produced an ambitious architectural model based on Jorge Luis Borges’s story ...
written by: Dwell Staff01.07.10 -
SFMOMA x Gap: Artists' T-Shirts
As part of their 75th anniversary celebration, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has partnered with local retail giant Gap on eight limited-edition artist t-shirts. The battery of art stars...
written by: Aaron Britt01.25.10 -
Ladles Not Labels
Fed up with men's fashion, Rachel Wythe-Moran and Simon Watkins of East London's Labour and Wait cooked up a plan to align their creative instincts and passion for practical design.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.02.10 -
Continuing Education
Business as usual for ReForm School founders Billie Lopez and Tootie Maldonado means far more than simply managing their popular Silver Lake, California, shop. Whether exploring thrift stores for...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Brigitte Sire03.12.10 -
Artist Maira Kalman at the CJM
I've long loved her New Yorker covers, and am still over the moon about the illustrated version of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style from 2005, so I leapt at the chance to meet...
written by: Aaron Britt07.01.10 -
Designer Gaetano Pesce
After meeting Gaetano Pesce at “Pieces of a Larger Puzzle,” his first West Coast retrospective at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Westwood, I caught up with the artist, designer and...
written by: Erika Heet07.26.10 -
Inside Woodshop
Last week I trekked to San Francisco's foggy Outer Sunset neighborhood to check out Woodshop, a collective of four artist and designers who came together through a shared interest in craft, design...
written by: Jaime Gillin09.13.10 -
New York's LomoWall
I just got back from a week in New York City, reporting a handful of stories for Dwell (we're featuring many amazing projects in 2011... stay tuned!). I'll be posting a slideshow of my adventures...
written by: Jaime Gillin09.23.10 -
Postertext's Literary Wall Art
What bibliophile, understanding that he maybe ought not cover all the walls of his apartment with shelves of books and stacks of journals, hasn't then moved onto classic book covers as his next...
written by: Aaron Britt09.29.10 -
Venice Biennale: Giardini
Although the Venice Architecture Biennale invades all nooks and crannies of the four-square-mile island, most of the festival's big-hitters reside under the roof of only one building, the Italian...
written by: Tiffany Chu09.28.10 -
Listening There: Scenes From Ghana
Two years ago, Mabel O. Wilson and Peter Tolkin traveled through Ghana, visiting the cities and documenting the architecture that had been erected over a thirty-year period, beginning in the late...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.05.10 -
Graphic Design: Project Projects
Manhattan-based Project Projects may be a graphic design studio, but it works in all dimensions, on the page and off. Founded by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels in 2004, the firm designs...
written by: Jaime Gillin12.15.10 -
20/200 Vision
What if you could get a real work of art for as little as $20? And it’s not a coffeehouse portrait of Neil Young?
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10 -
Collection Reform
Regional and world-class museums alike must daily contend with the same pedestrian woe: How can we show all this art? Limited by space, most museums manage to show only a tiny fraction of what they...
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10
