Current happenings at the intersection of sound, art, design, and technology that have caught our eye.
Born and raised in West Baltimore, Devin Allen has rapidly emerged as a leading political and human rights photographer. Armed only with his trusty Leica camera, Allen became a key documenter of the cultural landscape surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising.
Stephen Wilkes’s enthusiasm is infectious. The New York-born photographer describes his diverse field experiences with equal zeal, whether capturing an undulating cloud of sandhill cranes in Nebraska, which he calls “one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever witnessed,” or documenting Scotland’s Bass Rock while surrounded by bird guano.
Ever wonder what it would take to be James Bond, Jason Bourne or another notorious spy? SPYSCAPE, a recently opened experiential museum in New York, provides the answer by giving attendees the opportunity to enter the world of special agents, covert operations and secret missions.
A native Californian and adopted New Yorker, Hugo McCloud is a self-taught, multimedia artist inspired by urban landscapes and decay. McCloud, who has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York, Italy, and London, works largely in metals, and applies a “physical and instinctual” approach to his work.
Los Angeles-based Mark Laita, the photographer behind our Master & Dynamic x Scott Campbell Studio live snake shoot, is known for clean, graphic, colorful still lifes, live action imagery and portraits of people, animals, drinks, food and more.
What do a giant polyurethane bear, the recently refurbished Château de Rentilly, and Air’s Pocket Symphony album artwork have in common?
In our new series featuring the design and technical aspects of our headphones, earphones, and speaker, we speak with members of our product team to learn more about what goes into the engineering of our premium audio products.
What makes a sculptor in Miami decide to collaborate with a pastry chef in the Ukraine to create a piece of art that’s (almost) too beautiful to eat?
This fall and winter, New Yorkers might feel a bit fenced in by Ai Weiwei’s new site-specific public art exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.
Dutch sculptor Diederick Kraaijeveld has two important rules when it comes to his art. First, that he only uses found wood;
Fashion illustration, for centuries the sole means of fashion communication, has taken on a reduced role with the advent of photography, and more recently, smart phones.
“My staff told me not to say ‘this is a very moving show’,” Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, jokes at the opening of the museum’s latest exhibit Calder:
For our new series The Dynamic, we spoke to New York-based creative Bianca Valle about her art, what it's like being an artist on top of having a full-time job, and her advice to up-and-coming creatives.
We spoke with painter, sculptor, and filmmaker José Parlá about the premiere of his latest work, a foray into experimental documentary film.
Ryan McNamara, the Brooklyn-based performance artist whose work has graced the Whitney, the MOMA, and the Guggenheim, brings his latest piece to Frieze New York.
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