Frank Castellucio is a self-taught sculptor whose work in clay and bronze explores the cycles of life. “I’m a classical figure sculptor,” he said. “I try to portray the human figure as artistically as I can. I want to grab the viewer’s interest so that they can look outside their own environment...
Herman Miller, long known for its collaborations with modernists Charles and Ray Eames as well as Eero Saarinen, has launched a series of architectural videos in conjunction with its digital agency of record, Hello Design. “Herman Miller is a design leader and a thought leader with strong connections...
Only eight seats remain for the June 18 tour of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. Architects + Artisans is hosting the behind-the-scenes tour of Jefferson’s architectural masterpiece and Palladian retreat, near Lynchburg, Va. Travis McDonald, director of architectural restoration at the estate,...
By Frank Harmon, FAIA Few building forms are more familiar than the one-story gabled roof. The earliest Greek temples feature this form, as do 19th century tobacco warehouses, churches, and government buildings. Our own state Capitol in Raleigh, designed by Town and Davis in 1840, is adorned by the upright...
The fierce and bitter rivalry between opalescent stained glass makers John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany will arrive at a graceful truce at Biltmore Estate on July 1. It’s been more than a century in the making. Biltmore is clearing out five rooms at its new Legacy Building at Antler Hill Village,...
Nine designers in New York are sharing newly created work at the Gallery R’Pure at 3 East 19th Street, in tribute to Tobias Wong, who The New York Times said wanted to be the next Duchamp. The show takes place a year after the death of the young and mecurial artist. “He was a very dear friend...
On Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, along four blocks in historic Beverly Gardens in the center of Beverly Hills, more than 50,000 people will view the work of 250 artists from across the nation at the 38th Affaire in the Gardens . A team of and critics, curators and academics combed through more...
A series of four house concerts in suburban Chicago and one in southwestern Wisconsin during the next few months will raise funds for the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The season finale will be held at Taliesin, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. “Last year’s concerts...
Marjan Vayghan is a 26-year-old performance artist who’s turned a harrowing detention by Iranian police into a cathartic work of experiential art. On August 5, 2009, during the Green Revolution, she was with a friend, driving toward a gallery in Tehran, when they pulled onto a street populated entirely...
An architecture student and an expert in the science of water modeling have teamed up to win the 2011 DawnTown Floating Stage Competition in Miami. “Because of this project, we have a studio now,” said Abingo Wu of the design team she’s just formed with partner Gengxin Ou. The pair from Lincoln,...
