The Age of Average*

Alex Murrell Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art. Over 11 days the researchers …

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Intuition and Humanity in Design

Studio Fenice Writer: Rosanna Robertson “I realized that there was something missing – people were tired of the white-walled galleries, they were looking for more human ways to look at art and design,” notes Bettina Kiehnle, the Founder of Studio IMA. Established in contrast to the …

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Infinite Patterns

Cristóbal Vila Connecting geometry, nature, and architecture This is a new personal project that seeks to establish connections between various fields that interest me deeply: geometry, and how it appears linked to nature, on the one hand, and to art and architecture, on the other; …

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The Left Hand

Juan Villoro Vicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would take Vicente ten years to reach him. In …

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Optical Glass Sculptures

Both a tremendous athlete and a motivated student growing up in New Hampshire, it wasn’t until later in life that Jack discovered his passions in contemporary art and graduated at age 30 from Plymouth State University with a BA in Art focusing primarily on studio production. It was during his junior year there that he …

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