The Cool World of Alex Katz
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Inspirations.
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Generative Art
Art, videos and music created with algorithms. Post your demos, videos, music pieces and images of generative art. Or use the generative design tools here in penccil to create amaz...

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Imagine Fashion
In a quest for expression and identity, artists make imaginative worlds visible and preserve fleeting moments of beauty.

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Designers & Makers
There is a focus again on making things with creativity and quality. A new generation of makers, artisans and designers look at new ways of working and making.

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The Bauhaus Revolution
The Bauhaus: it's People, Politics, Art, Design and Architecture.

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Superwall
SUPERWALL is the wall for the latest and greatest in visual art. Our focus is on the visceral, the sublime, the surprising, the profound, and the accidentally found.

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DESIGN DIY
The design process has to become circular. DESIGN DIY is changing the way we create our living and working spaces and makes us rethink production, consumption, and the way we live ...

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House Now
Does contemporary architecture make us feel at home?

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New Design Materials
Balloons or recycled fiber for fashion, wood chip resins made into lightweight foam for chairs, recycled plastic extruded by a robot: New materials and what can be done with them -...

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BRUTALISM
BRUTALISM is a magazine of remarkable architecture. Brutalist architecture combines early modernist ideas with post-war rationality. Usually built in concrete, brutalist structures...

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The Elements in Design
Artists, designers and architects work with the elements of nature.

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German Painting after the 1960s
What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...
David Bowie is Crossing the Border.
This is a tribute to the musician, artist, designer, and dandy David Bowie (January 8th, 1947-Januar...
Sadamitsu Neil Fujita
Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...
Stan Galli
Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...
Spacecraft
Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...
Mirrors
Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...
The Way Of The Light
Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...
Radebaugh and Bohn
Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...
Silent Geography
Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...
The Slave Ship
But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...
The Sea by Emil Nolde
Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...
John James Audubon and the Golden Eagle
R Kikuo Johnson grew up on the island of Maui. He began a career in cartooning and illustration wit...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Afflicted Objects
"When I was 22 years old I found myself pacing the hallucinogenic black & white sidewalks of Rio de ...
Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head
Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...
Ramona Rosales Portraits
Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.
Low Tech
Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...
Fernando Botero
Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...
New York by Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...
Things As They Are
Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...
Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels
Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...
Pryor Console
The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...
Jean Arp: Randomness
Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...
Europa ‒ Where it has been & Where it is at
What image represents Europe? Is it the fall of the Berlin Wall, universal human rights, the Europea...
Heaven & Hell
Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.
Hell & Heaven
John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...
Postcards from Miami
Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi
The Art of Ralph McQarrie
Ralph Angus McQuarrie studied at the Art Center School in Pasadena. He first worked for a dentistry ...
Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris
A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...
Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams
Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.
Icons of American Design: George Nelson
"Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of ...
More cats in art
Cats throughout the centuries.
Deutschland
Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...
Supercenter disruptions
Mass: an installation project about creating visual disruptions in places of mass. Mass is a site sp...
Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt
Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...
Sisyphus
"Motion Control" is an industry term for computer-controlled movement in applications like robotics ...
Paolo Cirio: Overexposed
This artwork is composed of a series of nine unauthorized photos of high-ranking U.S. intelligence o...
Ghost: Kader Attia and Ventimiglia
The striking similarities between the installation of Kader Attia and the current situation in Venti...
Architectural Fun Ride
Borrowing language from roller coasters, the “Architectural Fun Ride” is a block-long, program-l...
Fresh White
Four major arcana here: Fresh White is at a turning point, and a very positive one. The Sun and the ...
American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s
Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...
Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream
"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...
Neighborhood
A bi-annual competition organised by architekturbild e.v. and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfu...
Amir Zaki: Southern California
Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...
Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...
Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction
In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...
The New Social
From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...
Sony World Photography Awards
Shannon Goff
Shannon Goff works with sculpture, ceramics, and drawing. Goff received a BFA from University of Mic...
Gordon Walters: Koru
"My work is an investigation of positive/negative relationships within a deliberately limited range ...
Landscape in my Mind
A network of connections between man and nature, the landscape presents itself as a projection of th...
Monet and the Birth of Impressionism
The nineteenth century was a time of upheavals. A wide variety of developments took place at the sam...
Stars in your eyes
Tim Lahan is an artist and illustrator living and working in New York. He’s the author of The Nosy...
Paul Rand
A selection of work by eminent American graphic designer Paul Rand.
Islamic Art Now
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middl...
Constructing the sixties
"My personal practice focuses on America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of stag...
Contemporary Still Life
Works from the Sony Photography Award 2015 shortlist. © Courtesy of 2015 Sony World Photography Awa...
Ghia Gilda
Chrysler’s executive Virgil Exner commissioned the Gilda showcar in 1955. It was designed by desig...
Richard Estes´ New York
"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...
Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva: Nature vs. Nurture
Collages by Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva, a Bulgarian born, Detroit based artist.
Exit Eden
Doug Fogelson studied photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College...
1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a maste...
Trylon and Perisphere
Images from the New York World´s Fair 1939.
The Tallest Buildings in the World
The tallest buildings in the world in 1901 New York City and other images from the United States aro...
You belong here
It is New Orleans’ distinct history that makes it an illuminating source of philosophical inquiry ...
Sturtevant Double Trouble
Elaine Sturtevant understands the power of images. The American artist who worked most of her life i...
Herb Aach: Color Theory
Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...
Who the f*** is Halil Altindere?
Since the mid-late 1990 artist Halil Altindere played with the notions of social and individual idio...
LIVE / WORK
So what’s this exhibition all about, anyway? Well, these are infertile female harvester worker ant...