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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty?

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Tokyo's teamLab Borderless is the future of art shows, and it's coming to Europe

Creative Boom

Since the Van Gogh show got everyone talking, even getting a cameo in the Netflix sitcom Emily in Paris, there have been many more, including the immersive Hockney exhibition that's currently at Factory International in Manchester. Consequently, the exhibitions they've held so far across Japan have been hugely popular and quickly sold out.

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From Space Age to Metaverse: Vitra’s New Sci-Fi Design Exhibition

Design Milk

This impact is so significant that Swiss furniture company Vitra has dedicated a year-long exhibition titled Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse to explore this intersection of design and science fiction. Science fiction has had an immense influence on the arts, including literature, cinema, graphic arts, and design.

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Navigating our way back to 'normal' after two years of a global pandemic

Creative Boom

But anyone who imagined Covid-19 would magically disappear and be as irrelevant the Millenium Bug had become in 2001 indulged in an understandable but naive form of wishful thinking. So a realistic goal for you might be to visit an exhibition that's opening next month.". Lockdown restrictions were never going to stay in place forever.

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12 of the best online clothing stores that sell unique pieces by leading artists and designers

Creative Boom

The in-house print designers Natasha and Elspeth draw inspiration from everywhere, including vintage fashion, antique tiles, art exhibitions and photos of flowers in the park, to name just a few. Independent and based in London since 2001, Lazy Oaf is a design-led lifestyle brand with a history of doing things its own way.

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A Disorienting Short Film by Lydia Cambron Recreates ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in Quarantine

Colossal

Eerie, hypnotic, and faithfully depicting the dismal reality that is 2020, a new short film by Lydia Cambron envisions her recent quarantine experience under the frame of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Follow Cambron’s parodic explorations—which include an annual exhibition titled JONALDDUDD — on Instagram and Vimeo.

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Remembering Richard McConnell 1942-2020: the inimitable exhibition designer

Design Week

Exhibition design is the ultimate in multi-disciplinary design. There is nothing money can buy that you can’t put in an exhibition. “There is only one crime that an exhibition designer can commit – and that is to be boring! . It was a museum he would continue to visit for more than 50 years.