Photographer João Pina has traveled from Afghanistan to Portugal and back again to create his diverse, insightful and thought-provoking portfolio. The series Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil isn’t all doom and gloom, instead it shows the many faces of the city. In a country often perceived as full of corrupt officials and drug barons, Pina shows the beauty too – mothers with their children, parties, dancing, laughing – that survives amongst the infamous guns, drugs and death. More at www.joao-pina.com.
Sarah + Paulina is the name of Swedish duo of photographers, Paulina Persson and Sarah Bolmsten. Their fashion shoots for editorial and campaign are often tinged with touches; set in snow-covered alps, scattered with wildflowers, starring porcelain skinned beauties of Northern Europe. The partners’ portfolio is full of images that bounce from moody to romantic and carefree. More at sarahpaulina.com.
Photographer Alex Bartsch takes engaging and fascinating images from South London to South Bogota. The Brixton-based photographer’s documentary style is evidence that every picture tells a story. His blog is a treasure trove of candid shots, odd visions and incredible characters. More at alexanderbartsch.blogspot.com.
Edition One Hundred, designed to provide beautifully packaged and produced art and photography at prices within reach. Based online at www.editiononehundred.com, this gallery without walls uses innovations in technology to produce and distribute high quality fine art prints to a new generation of collectors.
Edition One Hundred launched on June 30, 2010, with a program of three 2-month exhibitions to run through the end of the year. Each show is curated around a central theme—I Love LA, Freedom & Revolution, and Delayed Gratification—and features work by celebrated artists Martha Cooper, Estevan Oriol, B+, Nat Finkelstein, and Retna, among many others. (more…)
Wallpaper gives us a intriguing look into Bark Design Architects‘ interactive floor plan on the design for their house on Discovery Coast.
Bark Design Architects’ eco-friendly philosophy made them the perfect candidates to design this new beach house on Queensland’s fragile Discovery Coast landscape. Nestled within the beach’s sand dunes and endemic vegetation, the house is strongly linked to its sensitive yet gorgeous natural surroundings as well as the area’s architectural history. (more…)
Edward & Nancy Kienholz, The Hoerengracht, 1983 – 1988. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Five years in the making, Edward and Nancy Kienholz’s installation The Hoerengracht captures the essence of Amsterdam’s Red Light District of days past. A play on words, The Hoerengracht translates from Dutch to “the Whores Canal” and references the Herengracht (Gentlemen’s Canal), a prestigious Amsterdam thoroughfare. The artist couple made the work, a massive installation that recreates a section of the infamous Wallen district, while living in Berlin in the 1980s. Researched in the brothels of sex workers and constructed from materials found in flea markets and salvage yards, it depicts a provocative realm with empathy and wit.
The stylish city of Helsinki, Finland is about to showcase its design acumen during their sixth annual Design Week. With 11 days of events, this year’s theme is storytelling. Along with open studios, design markets, workshops, fashion shows and art installations in shop windows, there’s an event called Pecha Kucha Night. Named after the sound of chatter in Japanese, Pecha Kucha Night gives a group of specially selected speakers a mere 20 seconds to narrate 20 images of their design work. (more…)
The Schelling Architecture Foundation has awarded Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu of Chinese practice Amateur Architecture Studio with the architecture award totaling 30 000 euros. Every two years since 1992, the foundation has honored individuals who have responsibly advanced architecture’s development with significant designs, realized buildings, or with profound contributions to architectural history and theory. (more…)
For decades the Tri-State school system fought to keep graffiti out of schools, but now graffiti artists may be the last hope for their under-funded arts programs.
New Jersey high school P.S. 15 has issued an invitation to “turn their walls into the ultimate canvas,” according P.S. 15 Vice-Principal Jose Correa. And from August 28th- 29th they will partner with the Urban Art Foundation to host this year’s “Meeting of Styles,” an international gathering of the world’s finest urban artists that is for the graffiti world the World Cup, Super Bowl and a United Nations summit all rolled into one. (more…)
Lady Aiko took up residence at hotel for one week during the opening of her new show, Vivid Fiction at Merry Karnowsky Gallery. While staying at the hotel as an ‘artist in residence’, she created a stairwell piece incorporating her signature mix of floral designs, girlish cartoons and street pop culture images. This is the second piece Lady Aiko has created for The Standard, following the installation at Le Bain in New York. (more…)
