49 items found
You're viewing posts tagged “Murals”
Dispatches
To mark the fifth edition of the annual urban and contemporary art festival, Unexpected, Camille Walala has transformed a vintage gas station in Downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas, into a joyous landmark; her new public mural, entitled Walala Pump & Go,...
Boston
Housed in a listed building that dates back to the 1880s, with mid-century modern additions made to one of the first YWCAs in the United States after WWII, new Boston pad The Revolution Hotel is set to evoke the rebellious spirit the city has...
Journal
Bold, bright and always bags of fun, the work of multidisciplinary artist Michela Picchi has a knack for putting a smile on one’s face. Her lively palette, use of block colour, shape and form are intrinsic to the style of the...
The Edit
From bold paintings and simple and elegant line drawings, to experimental collages and large wall murals, Lynnie Z's latest exhibition at The Book Club highlights the spontaneity of the East London-based artist's fervent creative...
The Edit
Paying homage to two major anniversaries and uniting artists from different generations—commenting on women’s role in modern society and the arts, and paying tribute to monumental periods in women’s rights—Women.Now. is a powerful group...
Journal
L.A.-based Bunnie Reiss is an artist, muralist, and sculptor. Influenced by folk art, mysticism, and nature, Bunnie's often large-scale works can be found on walls all over the world. Sometimes delicate, and always impactful, the artist's...
Journal
Beginning his experimentation with graffiti at the tender age of 15, self-taught artist Franck Noto—aka Zest—has honed his singular style over the years that have followed; now one of France’s most celebrated street artists. The...
London
A new floating restaurant and bar for London, Darcie & May Green features an exterior designed by the one-and-only Sir Peter Blake, and an all-day menu bursting with fresh and distinctive Antipodean-informed cuisine. Located on the Grand...
Dispatches
'I love London and I’m fucking angry,' blurts Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who's spent more than ten years living in the capital. Bahari, who is also the founder of Paint the Change, a new initiative to push social...
Dispatches
Not-for-profit organisation St+art India created their first open air public art district in India during December 2014, uniting local and international artists who together brought the empty walls and winding streets of the city and suburbs alive...
Dispatches
London's culture-forward, design-led souvenir store, We Built This City, have revealed their latest shopfront collaboration; this time with much-loved creative heavyweight Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane. Lowe delves deep into his...
The Edit
Dundee is renowned for jam, jute, and journalism. Fast becoming Scotland’s coolest city, many don’t realise is that it’s also home to some of the most iconic comics long loved by kids around the world. This year, DC Thomson celebrates 80 years...
The Edit
What makes you happy? It is usually experiences, time spent with friends and loved ones, being told you’re great, that results in that intoxicating dopamine rush. But as the 24-hour news cycle seeks to bring us down, climate concerns and political...
City Notes
With influences from the South of France, Morocco and Paris, Merci Marcel Orchard Road—the third MM outpost from Antoine Rouland and Marie-Charlotte Ley Rouland—is a contemporary café and bar for 'urban bohemians'; longterm collaborator and...
City Notes
Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Bathhouse—situated in a renovated 1930s soda factory—offers an array of treatments programmed by top industry professionals in a space that pays homage to bathhouses around the world; whilst blending the...
City Notes
Fed up of making dinner plans, the ones where the sole reason is to have that long overdue catch up with friends (food aside of course), only to find yourself in a place you feel the need to either speak in hushed tones or feel the tormented wrath...
Dispatches
Sport is chock-full of rules; regulations and protocol for its players to adhere to. But some of those rules are more obscure than others. Whilst everyone will have had in their hands at another footballer getting booked for taking his top off, few...
Dispatches
While you can likely remember vividly the few time that you spotted a jarring red Ferrari, bright yellow Porsche, or a lime green Lambo whizzing down the road, most luxury cars are in fact not painted in such bold colours. Most cars, luxury or not,...
Dispatches
Having finally knocked the USA off the top spot, China lead the way in the World Design Rankings, a system that provides data to economists and journalists in the art, architecture and design industry. As part of the A’ Design Award &...
Dispatches
We spend a decent portion of our lives in our bedrooms; usually sleeping but often winding down after a tiring day or taking a lazy weekend morning (sometimes afternoon) in bed. Often overlooked for the spaces our guests see more of, we should...