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

Creative Boom

Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. There he took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Europe’s traditional and oldest art academy, where he studied technique and materials of sculpting, art history and anatomy. But he doesn't see that as a contradiction.

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We Are Just Grains of Sand on This Earth: Tomás Sánchez Draws Giant Forests and Massive Landcapes

Design You Trust

He began his studies as a painter in 1964 at the San Alejandro School of Plastic Arts in Havana and later at the Escuela Nacional de Arte. In 1985 he had his first retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. In 1989 he left Cuba to live in Mexico and subsequently to southern Florida.

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Skate culture: No comply

UX Collective

Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. The everything. But never died.

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Sketches of Frank Gehry: A Conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

Azure Magazine

He also teaches the course History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. In the last year, you published two books on Gehry — Masterpieces (Flammarion), just released this month, and Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings Volume One (Cahiers d’Art), which came out last year.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

A procession of designers had made their way to the city over the course of the year to take part in a new workshop/exhibition space supported by KW Institute for Contemporary Art — Na Kim , Karel Martens, Esen Karol, Fikra ’s Salem Al-qassimi, among them. You studied at Yale, where you got a bachelors in fine art.

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The State of Branding: Massachusetts (From Massachusetts Flags to Massachusetts Brands)

Canny

In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize gay marriage. According to many residents and tourism websites, some of the best things to do in Worcester involve heading to the Worcester Art Museum, or spending time at Elm Park. ’ Credit to George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Worcester Flag.

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“We Want Our Work to Endure.” An Interview with Didi and Sandi Pei

Azure Magazine

The studio was involved in such projects as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (1995) and the German Historical Museum in Berlin (2003). The news was delivered by Bill Walton, the Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts and a close friend of the family. Pei continued to work as a design consultant with his old firm.