There's something for everyone, from beloved grandkids to weird uncles and that co-worker whose name is definitely Shelly. No, Sarah. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article The Colossal Gift Guide is Here appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Belgian architect Theo de Meyer and production firm Public Art Company have created installations at the Desert Air Music Festival in Palm Springs, California, that reference industrial forms and modernist architecture. De Meyer, who is a member of the Belgian architecture studio Stand van Zaken, sought to recontextualise industrial materials for the sculptures and stage. The post Theo de Meyer uses "utilitarian aesthetics" for Palm Springs festival design appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

MIT Will Make Tuition Free for Families That Earn Less Than $200K Per Year Good news for those about to start the college application process. One of the most prestigious schools in the world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has announced that it will make tuition free for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year starting next fall. This incredible news lifts the barrier […] READ: Read More

Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson—the fourth chronological entry in playwright August Wilson’s ten-play Century Cycle—is both a family drama and a ghost story. The titular musical instrument sits in the living room of Doaker Charles (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives in Pittsburgh’s Hill District with his adult niece Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) and her young daughter Maretha (Skylar Aleece Smith). As the story opens, Berniece’s brother Boy Willie (John David Washington) and his friend Lymon (Ray Fisher) have arrived at the Charles House from Mississippi, looking to sell a truckload of watermelons they’ve brought from their home state. Once inside […] The post “You Can’t Tell the Story of America Without a Theft”: Malcolm Washington on The Piano Lesson first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse. Read More

CNBC's Robert Frank joins 'Squawk on the Street' to report on the massive number a crypto founder paid for 'art' of a banana duct taped to a wall Sotheby’s auction. Read More

Masonry waste from a nearby builder's yard was used to create various shapes, textures and habitats for birds and bees in the brick walls of Foxglove House, a home in rural Hertfordshire by local studio Kirkland Fraser Moor. Located in the village of Wigginton, the four-bedroom family home replaces a former stable block on the. The post Rural house by Kirkland Fraser Moor incorporates homes for birds and bees appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

PMT Partners is redefining spatial design through bold interiors. The post Intrepid Interiors: 6 Reasons Why Emerging Firm PMT Partners Should Be on Your Design Radar appeared first on Journal. Read More

"I think of my pieces as life forms that are in the process of transforming in ways that may be both wonderful and strange," Baek says. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Idiosyncratic Ceramic Sculptures by Janny Baek Evoke Nature and Desire appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Vancouver-based creative studio Zenga Bros has created a series of furniture pieces that convert into skate ramps, rails and quarter pipes as a "radical way to transform office space". Supported by watch brand Swatch, the Skate Break collection consists of five pieces of furniture including an oversized steel lamp and a boardroom table that can. The post Zenga Bros create convertible office furniture for skateboarding breaks appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Artist Traveled to Over 30 Cities To Perform Tea Ceremony With Strangers [Interview] In the early aughts, artist Pierre Sernet used the Japanese tea ceremony to unite cultures around the world in a powerful set of performances. Sernet's One series is often called Guerrilla Tea. The installation saw Sernet set up a “Tea Room,” denoted by a wood cube, in different global settings. He then sat and waited for a volunteer […] READ: Read More

Every Tuesday Tyler Coates publishes his new Filmmaker newsletter, Considerations, devoted to the awards race. To receive it early and in your in-box, subscribe here. At this year’s 35th annual Producers Guild Awards (which took place on Feb. 25, two weeks before the March 3 Oscars), Netflix’s American Symphony took the prize for best documentary feature. The Matthew Heineman-directed film followed musician Jon Batiste’s meteoric year in which he won five Grammys (including album of the year) and premiered a new composition at Carnegie Hall—all while his wife, journalist and artist Suleika Jaouad, fought a rare form of leukemia. One […] The post Will & Harper and the Netflix Effect first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

Barry Blitt, a cartoonist and an illustrator, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1992. In 2020, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Read More

Kena Betancur | Afp | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Crypto investor Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana duct-taped to a wall, highlighting the soaring values of crypto and viral art. Read More

Chinese studio Lichao Architecture Design Studio has transformed an abandoned brewery in Zhejiang, China, into a creative park, retaining its industrial character with additions in reclaimed brick and weathered steel. The 25,400-square-metre site in the historic water town of Wuzhen was originally developed in the 1950s as an extensive factory campus containing production facilities, offices. The post Lichao Architecture Design Studio combines "meticulous repair" with modern additions for Wuzhen Rural Brewery appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Well-behaved buildings seldom make history. But perhaps they should. The post Beyond Landmarks: What Makes Architecture Truly Meaningful? appeared first on Journal. Read More

A pair of New York exhibitions shed light on our distorted views of mass incarceration. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Through Monumental Installations of Soap and Stones, Jesse Krimes Interrogates the Prison System appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Dezeen Showroom: gently tapering elements give a subtle sculptural quality to the Conum bathroom tap range, by German brand Villeroy & Boch. Conum is a range of basin and bath taps as well as shower mixers that feature a motif of delicate conical elements, adding a refined finish to bathrooms. As well as giving an. The post Conum taps by Villeroy & Boch appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Mattel Honors EGOT Winner Rita Moreno With Her Own Barbie Doll Ahead of Her 93rd Birthday In 1962, actress Rita Moreno made history as the first Latina woman to win an Academy Award, earning the nod for her breakthrough role in West Side Story. Fifteen years later, she became the third person to ever be an EGOT winner—that is, someone who has won the four major American performing art awards (Emmy, […] READ: Read More

Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero is as mindbogglingly complex as its eye-catching logline is simple: “A murder mystery – unwittingly starring Werner Herzog.” More precisely, the Polish filmmaker’s doc is actually an adaptation of a script in which the aforementioned cinematic maverick travels to the fictional Getunkirchenburg to investigate the strange death of a local factory worker named Dorem Clery. Even stranger, that screenplay was written by “Kaspar” (as in Kaspar Hauser), an AI trained on the Herzog oeuvre. With a look inspired by the work of German photographer Thomas Demand, the film, shot mostly across northern Germany, also features […] The post “The Film Is Not About AI, Not About Werner Herzog, and Never Aimed To Embrace AI Technology”: Piotr Winiewicz on His IDFA Opening Night Doc About a Hero first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

It’s fitting that the title of the new HBO comedy “The Franchise” makes no direct reference to the superhero movie around which it revolves. That would be “Tecto: Eye of the Storm,” a hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar work in progress that has already been deemed an also-ran by its Marvel-like studio. The executives view it as a money grab—an opportunity to dangle before fans a three-minute cameo by a character from one of the studio’s more popular tentpoles in the hope that they bite. Accordingly, no one actually working on “Tecto” is thrilled about being there, regarding it, instead, as a means to an end. The film’s lead actor, Adam (Billy Magnussen), is betting that it’ll be the vehicle that catapults him onto the A-list. The producer, Anita (Aya Cash), wants its success to open doors for her to make “actual movies,” with the likes of Sofia Coppola. The very German director, Eric (Daniel Brühl), nurses fantasies that the film, which is set on a distant planet populated by fish-human hybrids, will offer meaningful commentary on fracking, or feminism—he hasn’t really decided, but perhaps he’ll have done so by the time he figures out the ending, a feat he attempts, sporadically, between takes. Most of the people ostensibly in charge are just there to pay their dues, meaning that no one sees it as his or her responsibility to insure that “Tecto” is any good. If “The Franchise” ’s premise of small-time machinations on the fringe of the big time makes it sound like a Hollywood version of “Veep,” that may be by design. The show’s creator is Jon Brown, a former “Veep” producer, and it counts among its executive producers Armando Iannucci, the creator of the earlier series. The two shows share plots of frenzy amid insignificance, and both abound with florid insults, rapid-fire banter, and acid appraisals. (One of Adam’s co-stars bristles at having been given little to do in front of the camera that day except “silently nodding, like a wife at a party.”) Above all, the two comedies are united in a bone-deep cynicism that can be unexpectedly invigorating; “Veep” seldom saw anything worthwhile in politics, and “The Franchise” doesn’t bother asking what kinds of pleasures comic-book tales might provide, which itches they may scratch. Across eight episodes, the début season... Read More

CNBC's Robert Frank reports on a pulse test for the high-end art market. Read More

Research group Forensic Architecture has developed an interactive map depicting the destruction of buildings, infrastructure and aid in Gaza, which it claims reveals patterns in Israel's military conduct. Forensic Architecture conducted independent research using data from open sources and third-party organizations to create the interactive platform titled A Cartography of Genocide, which features a map. The post Forensic Architecture creates interactive map to show the "compounding effect" of attacks on Gaza appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Taking a deeper dive into the architecture designed for flood-prone regions. The post Rising Waters: 8 Innovative Designs in Flood-Prone Regions appeared first on Journal. Read More

Chunky, slab-built vessels nod to nature, mindfulness, and the malleability of his medium. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article From Single Balls of Clay, Paul S. Briggs ‘Hand-Turns’ Leafy Vessels appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Dezeen Showroom: 2024 has seen Italian design brand Mara list a selection of its products on our platform, including minimalist seating, tables and storage. Mara's collaboration with Italian studio AMDL Circle resulted in the Typo office chair, which has a distinctively wrinkled, bent metal frame. This rippling detail gives the chair its name – Typo. The post Mara lists versatile workspace furnishings on Dezeen Showroom appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Surreal Limited-Edition Tech Accessories Inspired by Dalí’s Paintings In 1931, the surrealist Salvador Dalí painted what would become one of his most renowned artworks: The Persistence of Memory. The iconic painting has inspired everything from enamel pins to action figures, and, most recently, a collaboration between the artist’s estate and the electronic accessories company CASETiFY. The Salvador Dalí x CASETiFY collection cleverly reimagines […] READ: Read More

The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Filmmaker‘s publisher, announced today in a press release that Emmy Award-winner Zendaya will receive the Spotlight Tribute for her performance as Tashi Donaldson in the Luca Guadagnino-directed film Challengers, at the 34th edition of The Gothams, taking place Monday, December 2, 2024 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. From the Gotham: The Spotlight Tribute was created by The Gotham in order to recognize phenomenal efforts by individuals in film and television who captivated global audiences with the biggest projects of the year. With the Spotlight Tribute, The Gotham will honor Zendaya’s remarkable […] The post first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life. Read More

Dubai went from a sleepy gulf port to a glittering jewel in a single generation. The so-called City of Gold attracts over 17 million visitors a year, but only a select few get to experience the truly over-the-top glitz and glamour it has to offer – until now. Read More

Research into architecture workplace culture conducted by the UK's Architects Registration Board has revealed widespread bullying, discrimination and sexual misconduct in the profession. The Architects Registration Board's (ARB) workplace culture report found that architecture professionals experience higher levels of discrimination and sexual misconduct compared to other professions that have published comparable research, including academia and. The post ARB finds architects suffer higher levels of discrimination and sexual misconduct than other professions appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Striking black-and-white northern landscapes are pared to their essential shapes, lines, and tones. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Gary Wagner’s Photos Illuminate Rugged Icelandic Fjords and Shorelines appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with online retailer Made.com to put together a Christmas gift guide, including rich wool rugs, coloured glasses and hand-painted jugs. British online furniture and homewares platform Made.com offers a range of products to allow its audience to curate "unique, quality design" within their homes. This festive season, the retailer is. The post Made.com Christmas gift guide features rugs, jugs and tumblers appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Desert Air Takes Flight With Electronic Music Festival in Mojave Desert For two days in November, the Mojave Desert became the evocative backdrop for Desert Air. This art and music festival unfolded in Palm Springs, with the Palm Springs Surf Club and Palm Springs Air Museum taking revelers across a party that transitions from day to night. My Modern Met was on site to partake in […] READ: Read More

It’s a bit surprising to think that when I last interviewed Nanfu Wang it was for her six-part HBO docuseries Mind Over Murder, which revisited an infamous case of justice gone haywire in a small town in Nebraska back in the 1980s. Which, in terms of subject matter, is a far cry from this year’s followup (also for HBO). Night Is Not Eternal is a deep character study, a format the acclaimed director has long embraced, that charts the rise of Rosa Maria Paya, daughter of Oswaldo Paya, a five-time Nobel Peace Prize-nominated activist assassinated by the Cuban government in 2012. […] The post “I Grow as I Make a Film”: Nanfu Wang on Her HBO Documentary, Night Is Not Eternal first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art critic I don’t know what Werner Herzog is up to these days, but if he’s between projects, I humbly suggest that he make a documentary about Luna Luna, the Hamburg amusement park that took more than ten years to put together, included attractions designed by Dalí and Basquiat and Haring and Hockney, and spent thirty-five years in shipping containers. It’s now been partly reassembled at the Shed, for the exhibition “Luna Luna, Forgotten Fantasy,” through Jan. 5. Luna Luna in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987. The park’s Fitzcarraldo, a poet-songwriter-pop star named André Heller, was born in Vienna in 1947 and spent much of his thirties persuading artists to decorate rides. Haring slathered a merry-go-round in melty cartoons; Basquiat dressed a Ferris wheel in his customary graffiti. The park opened to the public in 1987, largely funded by a gossip rag, and stayed that way for a summer. Whatever else it was or wasn’t, it was a masterpiece of networking—Heller used his connections to Dalí and Warhol to recruit a veritable Ocean’s 11 of famous artists young and old, European and American, even if the total number who contributed anything within a thousand miles of their best work was approximately zero. Read More

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a museum in China with a peaked form clad in handmade ceramic tiles by Kengo Kuma and Associates. The roof of UCCA Clay Museum is defined by a series of peaks, cloaked with 3,600 handmade ceramic tiles in various shades of brown, intended to celebrate the "warmth. The post "Innovative, original and very distinct – it's also an eyesore" says commenter appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Hypnotic and seemingly endless, the dynamic works appear like vast portals that descend into small vessels. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Concentric Forms Escape the Confines of the Ceramic Vessel in Matthew Chambers’s Sculptures appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Taiwanese designer Hsin Min Chan served up the head, skin and tail of an imaginary creature – all made from vegetarian food waste – at a dinner event during Dutch Design Week. The project, Exotic as a Species, saw Chan create an illusionary version of nose-to-tail eating. The Netherlands-based designer wanted to show the value. The post Hsin Min Chan turns fictional creature into nose-to-tail eating experience appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

New Research Reveals Vincent van Gogh’s Famous Blue ‘Irises’ Were Originally Purple The painting Irises is one of Vincent van Gogh's most well-known works of art. The deceptively simple piece has captivated academics and the general public for centuries, particularly for the way the blue flowers evoke a calming, reflective feeling. However, it turns out that these flowers weren't always blue. New research at the Getty Museum […] READ: Read More

I’ve been making films for many years now, at the unusual intersection of US independent and East-European cinema, and teaching at a university in New York. When COVID hit, it made me re-evaluate everything I was doing. I stopped the projects I was working on as they seemed superfluous in that reality. To me, the global response to the pandemic demonstrated like nothing before the shocking inability of international and national institutions to cooperate and deal efficiently and equitably with a planetary crisis. And now, it almost seems as if nothing had happened; it’s just “business as usual.” But it’s […] The post Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened (Or Why I Still Make Independent Ultra-Low-Budget Films in a Time of Media Oversaturation) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a secret dissent obscures a more tantalizing possibility. Read More

The renovation of the Burrell Collection museum in Glasgow by British studio John McAslan + Partners has won the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland award for 2024. Completed in 2022, the museum refurbishment by John McAslan + Partners involved the expansion and renewal of the 20th-century building, originally designed by Barry Gasson Architects. The post Burrell Collection museum in Glasgow named Scotland's best new building appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

The Chattanooga-based artist stitches vintage ephemera and veneer into vibrant collages. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Hollie Chastain Lands a Playful Series of Collaged UFOs appeared first on Colossal. Read More

Promotion: workers are returning to the office and workplace design is set to cater to their needs like never before, according to speakers at a panel discussion hosted by Dezeen and furniture brand Steelcase. The panel, titled Joy at Work, took place at Steelcase's London showroom and featured the company's EMEA director for workplace design. The post Ping-pong tables are out, "control" is in, say panellists addressing Joy at Work appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Infamous Duct-Taped Banana Sells for Over $6 Million at Sotheby’s Auction   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by BBC News (@bbcnews) Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous duct-taped banana is now the most expensive fruit in the world. This past Wednesday night, the piece, titled Comedian, sold for over $6 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York, drawing in bids online, […] READ: Read More

Today, the IDA announced the nominees for the 40th IDA Documentary Awards. The show will be held on December 5th and hosted by actor and comedian Adam Conover. From the press release: Adam Conover to Host the 40th IDA Documentary Awards The Awards Ceremony will be hosted by actor, comedian, and writer Adam Conover on December 5, 2024, 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET at The Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles and streamed live documentary.org and simultaneously on IDA YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram channels. Learn more about the nominees and get your tickets for the ceremony at documentary.org/awards2024 The […] The post first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

“My Good Bright Wolf,” a new memoir by the novelist Sarah Moss, begins in dishabille. A narrator is speaking to herself in the second person, and she’s using language recognizable from fairy tales and old poetry. “In the middle of the journey of your life,” she says, “you found yourself in a dark wood.” A voice interrupts: “ Who do you think you are, Dantë? ” The narrator starts again—“once upon a time, deep in the forest, there was a wolf”—but doesn’t get far before the voice is back, insisting, “ There’s no evidence. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Moss has heard this voice, and others like it, since childhood. They blame and criticize, hector and accuse. “ It’s all in your head,” one of them says. “ You brought it on yourself.” They articulate her worst fears: “ Shouldn’t you have got over it, whatever you say it was, by now? . . . There’s something nasty here, something wrong in your head.” In novels including “Ghost Wall” (2018) and “Summerwater” (2020), Moss has explored the mind’s power to distort reality. Her characters live much of the time inside their skulls, in psychic spin chambers that feel realer to them than their physical surroundings do.“My Good Bright Wolf,” is, in some ways, a familiar tale—an entry into the genre of half-sincere autobiography that, under the guise of showing how dangerous the romance of self-deprivation can be, ends up propounding that romance. Moss, who is in her late forties, has struggled with anorexia since adolescence. Her issues with food and her body are the book’s through line, and the only parts of her adult life that she illumines. She wants to understand why she would squander so much time on something so destructive and antithetical to her values. Particularly vivid is the question of blame: Did she do this to herself, or was it... Read More

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California's San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation centre that will utilise a "Nordic model". Following a 2023 announcement from California Governor Gavin Newsom that the maximum-security prison will be converted into a "one-of-a-kind facility" renamed the San Quentin. The post Images released of Nordic-informed resdesign of California's San Quentin prison appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

In meticulous collages, Dion highlights historical milestones like women's labor rights and suffrage throughout the 20th century. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Myriam Dion Weaves Milestones of Women’s History from Vintage Newspapers appeared first on Colossal. Read More