“I have always loved geometry, lines, curves, pattern and abstract designs. Architecture seems like a great way to express them.” Well, we agree, but something tells us that mere love of architecture won’t necessarily secure a series of images this resplendent. Photographer Jared Lim is one of many contemporary artists — Continue reading
For 16 years, the photographer Graeme Williams has been documenting the homes of South Africa’s most impoverished citizens—those for whom the end of apartheid didn’t lead to an improvement in personal fortunes—and the result is the photographic essay, Painting Over the Present. The most startling thing about these photos is — Continue reading
There’s no getting away from it. Whether it’s all you need or a battlefield; whether blind or in the air, love is everywhere today. Painted and written, applied to walls and carved in limestone; crafted in iron, aglow in neon, expressions of love will not be ignored. So, if you’re thinking — Continue reading
“I have created a space where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into part of the museum,” says the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson of his permanent rooftop installation at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Århus, Denmark. And that’s a pretty good description of Your — Continue reading
Editorial pundits may be proclaiming the death of print, but that isn’t discouraging writers, photographers and designers from pouring themselves into publications that celebrate the particular joys of a glossy two-page spread. The new UK food and travel quarterly magazine, Cereal, has set for itself the lofty goal “of making something — Continue reading
As if we need further confirmation of Marilyn Monroe’s age-defying star power, consider the case of Peter Mangone. In 1955, Mangone was a 15 year-old schoolboy with a crush on Marilyn. Hoping for a glimpse of the 29 year-old star, newly divorced from Joe DiMaggio, Mangone waited outside New York’s Gladstone — Continue reading
Neon wasn’t invented specifically for Las Vegas, but we might be forgiven for assuming it was. No city on any continent has ever flourished as brightly in the glow (or, in Vegas’ case, glare) of neon signage as has America’s gambling capitol. And now, thanks to the recently-opened Neon Museum, — Continue reading
The Mexican-American architectural photographer Pedro E. Guerrero, might not have been as famous as his contemporary, Julius Schulman, but he, too, photographed masterworks by 20th Century giants like Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, and, most famously, Frank Lloyd Wright. Guerrero, who died last year, also created indelible images of lesser known — Continue reading
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