[ad_1] PARIS — The late Hungarian-born artist Vera Molnár found patterns everywhere: in architectural details, in optic art, even in dreams. Spanning a remarkable eight decades of her 99-year life, Speak to the Eye, the Centre Pompidou’s compact yet ambitious exhibition of this little-known computer art pioneer, highlights her lasting fascination with geometry, disrupted perception, […]

[ad_1]  Design Film #Caitlin McMullan #disability #short film #video August 9, 2024 Grace Ebert  In “Fitting,” filmmaker Caitlin McMullan shares a sensitive moment at a medical office. Sitting on an exam table, she chats with Alison Morton, who carefully molds a cast around McMullan’s thigh and knee to create a prosthetic. The short […]

[ad_1] PHILADELPHIA — Do you remember who taught you to type on a desktop QWERTY keyboard? There’s a chance it may have been the fictional character Mavis Beacon, a made-up entity from the popular education software game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing released in 1987. Despite the fervor that followed the software through multiple editions, the […]

[ad_1]  Art Nature #fish #mixed media #pacita abad #Philippines #quilts August 9, 2024 Grace Ebert “Shallow Gardens of Apo Reef” (1986), oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons, cotton yarn, rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas, 132 x 137 1/2 inches. All images courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery, shared with permission After a traumatic childhood moment […]

[ad_1] Harvard University will not remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from two of its campus buildings, concludes a 15-page report by a committee assigned to review the decision. After years of pressure from students and activists who illuminated the donor’s ties to the devastating opioid crisis fueled by the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, the […]

[ad_1]  Art Design #Open Press Project #printmaking August 8, 2024 Grace Ebert All images © Open Press Project, shared with permission Cologne-based designers Martin Schneider and Dominik Schmitz of the Open Press Project are back with a new design that scales up miniature printmaking. Currently funding on Kickstarter, The Postcard Printing Press is the largest […]

[ad_1] The first time Ron Tarver got on an airplane was at age 24 to interview for a staff photographer position at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Next thing he knew, the paper was sending out movers to his home in Oklahoma, where he had worked for his first two years out of college as the first […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft #Ariana Heinzman #ceramics #flowers #sculpture August 8, 2024 Kate Mothes “Banana Split Plant” (2024), ceramic and underglaze, 28 x 14 x 10 inches. All images © Ariana Heinzman, courtesy of J. Rinehart Gallery, shared with permission Over the centuries, humanity’s relationship with wilderness has becoming increasingly fraught, as we continue to […]

[ad_1] Fifty years after Philadelphia’s “Young Meher” statue was first erected by Armenian Americans on the United States Bicentennial, the heroic figure will be at the center of a new permanent public art exhibition slated for a 2026 unveiling. The Armenian Heritage Walk will be positioned in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA).  “Young […]

[ad_1]  Art Design #public art #rainbows #sculpture #Studio Brynjar & Veronika #water August 7, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Sander van Wettum, shared with permission A bronze, elf-like figure sits at the edge of the River Enz in Germany, waiting to greet passersby with delightful arcs of color. The mysterious form, installed as […]