If clothing was indeed the first architecture, then a spring fundraiser for the Architecture + Design Museum (A+D) on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles promises to celebrate its 21st-century evolution. From 7:00 to 11:00 PM on Saturday, March 10, a salon-style runway event at A+D will feature wearable...
From the 1920s until the mid-’60s, the nearly indestructible Speed Graphic was the camera of choice for photojournalists around the world. Now, photographer M. J. Sharp has found a new application for the long-retired camera once produced en masse by Graphlex in Rochester, N.Y. She makes C-prints from...
Matt Clayton started working with black and white film and prints up in the attic when he was a child, but it wasn’t until he finished school at the London School of Communication that he really got started photographing architecture. For about seven years now, he’s been shooting with an Arca 6 x 9 and […]
After stints in advertising and running a gourmet ice cream business in Miami Beach, Julie Davidow sold out to her partner, travelled for a year, came back and, at 32, studied art at the New World School of Art. “I’ve been happy ever since,” the minimalist painter says. It shows. Her work is a textured...
January’s not too soon to make reservations for a late spring tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park neighborhood in Chicago. Last year, 3,000 guests had signed up by early April for the wildly popular excursion into late 19th and early 20th century vernacular architecture – including the birth...
Emma Biggs got her start with mosaics in the 1980s after looking up the word in the Yellow Pages. Through a television program, she’d discovered that there were still descendants of Italian artisans who’d arrived in Great Britain in the late 19th century, living and working in London. “A...
For the past eight years, Stephanie Hempel has guided 14,000 people along the rough-and-tumble streets of the St. Pauli section of Hamburg, re-tracing the steps of the pre-phenom Beatles, ukulele in hand. It’s a labor of love through ten stops in the hippest section of the city Her guests visit all the clubs...
International architecture firm Leo A Daly recently won two 2011 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Hong Kong awards for its work on the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Hong Kong campus in the Sham Shui Po district. The adaptive reuse project, which transformed the decommissioned North...
Three images inspire architect Guilhem Eustache: paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, long tracking shots in films by Orson Welles and the Jantar Mantar observatories at Jaipur. He’s demonstrated the influence of each at his recently completed Fobe Home, ten miles south of Marrakesh, Morocco. “My...
One word describes artist Amy Crehore’s exquisite paintings on handmade and antique ukuleles: Puckish. All-but-naked pixies cavort with cigarette-puffing kitty cats. Adolescent clowns linger behind half-opened curtains. Ever-present monkeys lounge lasciviously all ‘round. Hers is an intuitive...
