Known for experimental exhibitions exploring the realms of materiality, such as Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is turning its attention to a new set of unusual materials and techniques in its latest exhibition, Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design.
Highlighting work that deals with the ephemeral, death and destruction, as
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This weekend the artistic duo unveiled The Hello Cube as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts programme and REcreative initiative at the Tate Modern in London, Infinite Kusama; an afternoon of interactive performances and workshops to engage young folk with Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama’s unique vision.
Inspired by Kusama’s work The Passing Winter (2005), Hellicar & Lewis' ever-changing installation reacts
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Dutch design group Premsela presented The Chicken Factory by Royal College of Art graduate Kieren Jones during their symposium Me Craft/You Industry earlier this year - a thought provoking, short film, documenting the designer’s construction of a miniature factory that turns waste remnants from uneaten chicken into a material for everyday products.
Using leftover bones, Jones created a simple eggcup and
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The Richmond Weekender is an event by Melbourne-based studios Right Angle and Foolscap, currently comprising a temporary canteen, market and cinema in a previously abandoned piano factory building.
Owners Lend Lease have commissioned the initiative in an attempt to temporarily ‘breathe new life’ into the space before it is transformed into a luxury apartment block and retail environment at the end
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Official airline of the London 2012 games, British Airways is creating a pop-up restaurant prior to the Olympics this summer.
Flight BA2012 (modeled on the interior of a typical British Airways plane cabin) will be open for two weeks and situated in the East London enclave of Shoreditch.
Overseen by The Fat Duck owner Heston Blumethal, chef Simon Hulstone will prepare a
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Through the end of April and May, Beastie Boys vocalist Mike D is teaming up with digital magazine The Avant/Garde Diaries to host a free, multidisciplinary festival in downtown Los Angeles, Transmission LA: AV Club.
The 17-day fair, will be held at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, and include daytime and evening exhibitions, installations, music sets and performances, as well as a pop
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Winning the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short category at the Slamdance Film Festival this year, filmmaker Andrew Huang’s short film SOLOPSIST is a fantastical, dream-like journey where otherworldly characters merge into one another in a convergence of the body and mind.
The experimental short uses practical and special effects to create a montage of three stories that include shots of
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Noma restaurant in Copenhagen has enlisted the help of Danish architect practice 3XN to help them create an experimental food laboratory in a listed, warehouse building.
The ‘experimentarium’, adjacent to the restaurant, will provide the Noma chefs with a place to develop their innovative skills in Nordic cuisine, with an aesthetic that perfectly encapsulates the raw and simple colors and forms
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Throughout May, The School of Life will be unleashing their inspiring ideas for everyday, successful living on the UK public, as they begin a live tour to promote their new series of ‘How to’ guides.
The enlightening evenings will comprise fun and interactive sessions filled with lecture, performance, discussion and activity, embodying the ‘characteristically off-beat’ style of The School of Live,
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Yesterday, online design and architecture magazine Dezeen launched their Designed in Hackney initiative to showcase the incredible art and design emerging from one of the five boroughs to host the London 2012 Olympic Games this summer.
Premiering with Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby’s winning, 2012 Olympic torch design, Dezeen will post the established and lesser-know creatives behind the buildings, interiors and
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