There is always a lot to do on Canada Day in Toronto. On a nice sunny long-weekend people flock to the Beaches or the Harbourfront, if they aren't at a cottage up north or camping. This year we chose to spend the day ...
Jump on a train from Centraal Station in the direction of the sea and within 15 minutes you'll end up in Haarlem. This is the home of Josh Baumgarten, originally from New York and now happily settled in the Netherland...
The monumental Tower of Retiro was the scenery for the launching of Reading for Breakfast's first book. The event has taken place on June 7th. in a freezing Saturday afternoon in Buenos Aires. Despite the weather, the...
On the occasion of his 100th birthday the "Deichtorhallen" in Hamburg presented an exhibition of Arne Jacobsen's work. He was a Danish architect who worked from the 30's to the early 70's. Because of perfectionism he ...
Sybilla Fashion is a reflection of both our society and our times, and therefore, on 18th June Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia opened an exhibition organised by the Ministry of Economy and the ...
This year's Biennale of Venice's 50th International Art Exhibition presents an "exhibition of exhibitions" called "Dreams and Conflicts"; The Dictatorship of the Viewer. From the 12th of June until November, throughou...
Marriage of music and art is not a ground breaking news. Yet to deliver the sense of community, connection, and profound nostalgia all in one behind these pleasantly bulky record sleeves, are most definitely unique to...
In the 60s and 70s, the movement known as Conceptualism introduced an art which removed as much as possible the intermediary object from its underlying ideas. This art of ideas could appear in written form, diagrams, ...
Thursday, 11 a.m. No sign of the shifters. I've arranged to meet three staff members of Shift outside the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Arts (MACBA) but they're nowhere to be seen. I assume they're either lost arou...
"Salvanilla" and "Lap Top Orchestra" presented the live performance event "Inter/Action" on the 27th and the 28th of June at Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo. Roppongi Hills is a complex cultural facility that inc...
It will be able to view the field opera Turandot which is famous world-wide the case true good fortune to me. It puts out and it buys in advance lately, position buys thought will not be difficult, with unexpected it ...
Organized by the Consulate-General of France every year in May, Le French May is celebrating its 11th birthday in 2003 though SARS casts a shadow on the whole world, especially in Hong Kong. Le French May has b...
The box appears everywhere in our lives. Cities laid out in grids, architecture of steel and glass boxes popularized by the likes of Mies van der Rohe, commodities made more valuable by commercial packaging into boxes...
There is a moment that I feel like holding everything, everyone surrounding me. The messy room, the night beach, and the afternoon park, all the scenes look so beautiful and all of us who share the scenes together bec...
Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city, and a very contradictory one. Last Monday, on May 12th, the Latin American Museum was the scene for the presentation of Venus Project, one of our latest local ways of surviving the...
Much has been written about Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born architect with her reputation for being fierce, uncompromising and abrasive. I am told some architects will decide after only ten minutes that they could never ...
Berlin was host to the first Designmay. A two week design orientated congress where over 100 participants contributed with products, project, ideas. I myself was very wound up in our own activities, so that I w...
