Author: Lucy Gong
Posts by Lucy Gong
Denver Art Museum acquires work by Erez Nevi Pana
Ply Loop Chair: Circular Logic (2024)
The Reality of our Surroundings (2024)
Remembering Gaetano Pesce (2024)
No Matter: Art and Design Beyond Materiality (2024)
Salomé Gómez-Upegui The works of art I never forget speak to me on a soul level. Beyond their formal elements, they ignite something enigmatic, serving as portals to connect with a force bigger than myself. The artists and designers who made them have, somehow, listened to a higher voice […]
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Remembering Andrea Branzi (2023)
The Bolibana Collection (2023)
By Hamed Ouattara Dedication: These works are in memory of my mother, hence the piece SINDOU, named after her village in Burkina Faso. I have had this collection in mind for many years, but its story does not begin with me. […]
Hamed Ouattara (2023)
By Glenn Adamson Timbuktu, in Mali, lies a little more than 500 miles from Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, toward the southern Sahara. To the extent that most Americans have heard of it, they will associate it only with the notion of the far-flung. But the city is […]
“Oregon Dragon” by Joris Laarman Installed at the New LeBron James Innovation Center
New Figuration (2022)
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, Acquires Work by OrtaMiklos
Design in Dialogue #114: Tom Dixon
Design in Dialogue returns for a conversation with Tom Dixon, recorded recently from his London studio. This versatile, even chameleonic innovator has reinvented himself many times over the course of his long career. In our conversation, we return to his early days as an enfant terrible of the British scene. As a leading exponent of […]
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Acquires Work by Samuel Ross
Samuel Ross, A Lexicon (2021)
By Glenn Adamson How should we talk about design, today? The conceptual canon handed down from the past – functionalism, truth to materials, ergonomics, all the familiar vocabulary – remains instructive. But it is no longer fit for purpose. Knowing all we know about design and its freighted past, we need not only new […]
