If you're going to San Francisco on a spring day,make sure to take the historic trolley and get off at The Castro district. There are numerous stylish shops, Eco-friendly cafes and bars but the thing to do is to look for murals. They are not easy to find but once you do, they are [...]
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2014 Contemporary art often crosses the line of pure art expression or craft. It contributes to building a culture, thus encompassing many different creative fields, such as film making, literature, political issues, and even spirituality. At the recent 11th Ubud Writers Readers Festival in Indonesia, we experience art [...]
Twister (Park Avenue Paper Chase), Aluminum, 12′ high × 12′ diameter, 2014. 66th Street on Park Avenue. For four months, midtown Park Avenue in New York has been taken over by swirls of energy in layers of glistening aluminum and fiberglass, a symphony of seven apparently random installations that invite the public [...]
Ma Yansong “Shanshui City” Exhibition from June 7th to 10th at Wuhao, Beijing Chinese architect Ma Yansong, 38 years old, and clad in black, talks easily about his new project “Shanshui City”, which means City of Mountains and Rivers. His exhibition of architectural models is set in a lush garden of a courtyard house in [...]
In just under two hours outside of Beijing, monumental high-rise buildings disappear, the sky opens up and farmhouses begin to discern among trees and mountains. Not far from the Great Wall and shaded by chestnut trees, hawthorns and apricots, a modern rectangular-shaped building, minimalist in style, sits at the foothills of the Jiaojie River valley [...]
There is a park in New York City blooming with red mountains, yellow coastlines and copious blue cascade. If you look closer, you would find that these elements of a landscape in spring and summer are actually hand-knotted nautical ropes covered in paint. This is a monumental installation consisting of 1.4 million feet of rope, [...]
These were fleeting moments. We found these art works by chance as we rushed to work. Your story is located in the midst of many stories of people rushing to take their trains. Faith and Fate questions the abstractions of transient moments, then, a surprise: a group of birds flying inside an enclosed subterranean train [...]
By C.C When you love something, you want to possess it. It is always great to get into heavy philosophical debates with Zach, but when the issue came to our discussion, we were already exhausted after several hours of watching serious art in New York’s prime art district of Chelsea. Our minds were bombarded [...]
By C. C. Loch Hame is a band that I started with my friends, but now it’s just me. The American artist Tyler Loftis began his recent performance at the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in Lower East Side Manhattan with these words in an introductory video. The gallery was packed and people waited [...]
Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes wants to create “a global consciousness about arms trafficking” with his project to make musical instruments out of guns seized by the army and police in the violent areas of northern Mexico. So far, he has already transformed many weapons into instruments like marimbas and cymbals, which have been used in [...]
