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Tal R Does “Academia”

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 31 2017

The extensive work of the Danish artist is being displayed in a mid-career retrospective, the Academy of Tal R, at the Museum Boijmans van Beunigen in Rotterdam

Marriage Sauvage Style

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 30 2017

French duo Atelier Sauvage was commissioned to replace the furniture in the wedding room of a 19th-century mairie in Paris. The result? They went to town on the town hall.

Mining the Design Academy Eindhoven

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 29 2017

A promising generation of DAE designers present their graduation projects during the 2017 Dutch Design Week

The Way Beyond Art at the Van Abbemuseum

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 28 2017

The Eindhoven museum presents a new sprawling exhibition featuring its own collection. Curators Christiane Berndes and Steven ten Thije discuss the role of its other custodian: the community.

Camp David

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 27 2017

Changing the co-working formula, Milk Group’s Mazdack Rassi and Erez Shternlicht open Camp David in…

The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 27 2017

The sixth edition of the WCC•BF exhibition brings together jewellery representatives from Belgium, France and Sweden to the Grande Halle des Anciens Abattoirs

Ruptura at Luciana Brito NY Project

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 26 2017

São Paulo’s Luciana Brito teams up with New York Brazilian design gallery Espasso to mount the first in a series of three historical exhibitions combining art and design.

Kiki and Joost’s Tinkering Labs

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 26 2017

For the 2017 edition of Dutch Design Week, Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk open up their studio and office space to the public with an exhibition titled The Tinkering Labs

Human Cities Exhibition at Biennale Internationale Saint-Etienne 2017

Human Cities
October, 25 2017

After Milan and Belgrade, the exhibition  of the project  Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale was set up in Biennale Internationale Saint-Etienne 2017 from 9th March to 9th April 2017. To maximize the visibility and exchanges with the public,

Jean-François D’Or’s FRArGILE

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 25 2017

This month, the Belgian designer becomes the curator of FRArGILE, an exhibition at the Maison des Arts in Schaerbeek that explores the fragility of an everyday material like clay

Sunbrella Shines at the DDW

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 25 2017

Two projects by Charles Pétillon, Michiel de Greef and Dries van Wagenberg on view during the Dutch Design Week highlight the possibilities of Sunbrella fabrics

Atelier NL Rings the Alarm on Sand

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 25 2017

The Dutch duo collected wild sand from around the globe to highlight the upcoming scarcity of one of the most valuable —and yet underrated— resources for contemporary life

François Daireaux’s Blow Firozabad Bangles

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 24 2017

Daireaux’s solo exhibition at the mudac Lausanne reveals the singular but universal artistic vision through his comings and goings between the glassmaking cities of Firozabad and Meisenthal

The New Radicals of Arita

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 23 2017

Six Netherlands-based artists and designers went to Arita, in Japan, for a porcelain residency. The results are showcased in New Radicals, an exhibition at this year’s Dutch Design Week.

The New and the New-New Dutch Icons

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 23 2017

Who is the new Mondrian? 100 years after the birth of De Stijl, two exhibitions during this year’s Dutch Design Week try to find an answer to that question.

Oohs and Aahs at the DDW

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 22 2017

Visiting most of the Dutch Design Week exhibitions is akin to stepping inside a DeLorean headed to 2037. But how did the more present-based displays fare in terms of audience response?

Ai Weiwei’s Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 20 2017

Foremost artist and human rights activist Ai Wei Wei teams with various industry partners; the Public Art Fund and the City of New York to mount an extensive series of site-specific installations that address the pressing refugee crises.

Sonic Arcade at MAD

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 19 2017

This autumn and winter, New York’s MAD Museum dedicates the majority of its galleries to an immersive series of interactive installations that reveal the wide history and application of sound art.

Human Cities Bilbao Event 2017

Human Cities
October, 19 2017

Human Cities _Challenging The City Scale/ Event Bilbao 2017 Bilbao 15-18 November 2017 The travelling Human Cities exhibition in 2016-2018 presents the process and results of co-creating activities in the experimental Labs of all the Human Cities partners in ten different European cities.

Rabih Hage on Design Collecting

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 19 2017

The RIBA-chartered architect talks about the 2017 design market Detnk report —and advises future collectors where to look for sound investments in design collecting

FH Joaneum interview with Frank van Hasselt

Human Cities
October, 18 2017

Frank van Hasselt is Chief Executive of Clear Village, a London-based charity that helps communities build a better future through creative regeneration. At the Graz symposium “Five Days in Jakomini”-experimentation labs he talks about the Clear Village charity and how stealing from other cities can be a good thing.

Altercartography

Human Cities
October, 18 2017

MASTERCLASS TITLE: “Altercartography” DATES: From 9/5/2016 to 12/5/2016. 09:00 to 14:00 LOCATION: BIZKAIA ARETOA, UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (UPV-EHU), Bilbao. AND STREETS OF BILBAO GIVEN BY the artist of international prestige,

“Walking the Streets!”

Human Cities
October, 18 2017

Experiment “Walking the streets!” was carried out in Bilbao La Vieja, San Francisco y Zabala neighbourhoods in the framework of the Human Cities project in Bilboa.   The initial goal is to develop,

Pablo Reinoso’s Conversations at the FIAC

TL Magazine_True Living of Art & Design
October, 18 2017

Fresh off an outdoor installation in Bordeaux, the French-Argentinean artist takes his public benches to the FIAC, opposite the Grand Palais in Paris