Spotlight: Pirjo Hassinen
“Drawings fly, paintings smile…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Pirjo Hassinen
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Pirjo Hassinen: My family on my mothers...
jacob hashimoto on his richly-layered compositions
designboom - Growing up among the ‘onion fields and big skies’ of rural america, artist jacob hashimoto collected an open and abundant perspective. - read more ...
A New, Interactive Sculpture by Suchi Reddy Illuminates Our Hopes and Fears About the Future
Smithsonian Magazine - At the first event of the Smithsonian’s new Arts and Industries Building—the 1881 inauguration ball for the newly elected President James Garfield—the centerpiece in the rotunda was the m...
yasuaki onishi suggests society today with ‘distance between presence and absence’
design boom - Japanese artist yasuaki onishi presents ‘distance between presence and absence’ at the takamatsu art museum in japan. - read more ...
Minwook Paeng develops robot eye to help users walk while looking at their phones
de zeen - Industrial design student Minwook Paeng has created a robotic Third Eye that is fixed to the forehead and looks out for obstacles when the wearer's real eyes are glued to their smartphone. - read more...
You Can Now Report Stolen Art Using Interpol’s New App
hyperallergic - A new mobile app launched by Interpol, the global criminal police organization, aims to help identify and track stolen art and cultural property. The ID-Art app provides real-time access to the ...
giant melons take over cyril lancelin’s surreal immersive installation in beijing
design boom - as part of the permanent collection of IOMA art center in beijing, cyril lancelin of creative studio town and concrete explores data and nature’s abundance in an immersive sculpture made of giant...
The Ghent altarpiece: An unlikely fruit meaning original sin
BBC - Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece features a surprising candidate for the forbidden fruit. Kelly Grovier explores how it gives spiritual coherence to the 15th-Century work. - read more ...
A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited
hyperallergic - In 2018, Aurélia Azéma, a doctoral student in Paris, observed something peculiar about a massive bronze toe held in the collection of the Louvre Museum: namely, that it was not a toe but an inde...
A Rare, Looted Statue of Greek Goddess Has Been Returned to Libya
hyperallergic - A 2,000-year-old statue of a Greek goddess looted in 2011 from Libya has finally been repatriated. Experts believe the sculpture is a likeness of Persephone, goddess queen of the underworld and...