Dutch photographer Pieter Henket has spent the past few years spotlighting the innovative and subversive fashionings of Mexico City’s queer communities. After a lengthy period in the capital, he teamed [...]
In the early 20th century, Russia underwent a series of drastic and devastating changes. After centuries of imperial rule, the 1917 Russian Revolution put an end to the Romanov dynasty [...]
Combining a variety of fabrics, buttons, shells, and beads, Stephen Towns’ mixed-media textile pieces draw on the rich heritage of quilts made especially by Black women in the American South. [...]
Humans have been creating pigments for thousands of years, foraging for local materials that could be ground or extracted to create colors. The 17,000-year-old cave art in Lascaux, France, for [...]
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) is now accepting applications for the 2027 Arts/Industry residency, a three-month program hosted by Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wisconsin. More than 600 artists have [...]
From a single material, a Hyderabad-based design studio creates a wide range of site-specific installations, furnishings, and decor. It’s all in the name of the firm, The Wicker Story, which [...]
Topped with a roof shaped like a crabshell, Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a sanctuary amid the French mountainside. The 1955 construction rests atop a hill in Ronchamp, standing unobstructed [...]
The term “needlework” covers a wide variety of thread-based practices from sewing to knitting to lace-making. While some of these are functional, techniques like embroidery are often employed purely for [...]
When furniture maker Terry Facey began repairing historical pieces, his work often centered around 17th-century examples, thanks to an antique dealer who regularly brought him new items. Over time, the [...]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as industrialization swelled and advances in science and health paralleled social and economic transformation, artists searched for ways to express the changing [...]