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The Mental Work factory opened at the EPFL ArtLab in Lausanne, Switzerland in October 2017. Over the course of the following three months, more than 500 workers clocked in to the facility, operating its machines using only their minds.

An interactive digital museum of color and light installations has opened in Tokyo, Japan. ‘teamLab Borderless’ is the first of its kind, featuring 50 fluidly-moving installations that position the viewer directly within the artwork’s sphere.

BIG, the studio of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, has facilitated the design of a ceramic vase based upon ‘Skum’, a bubbling inflatable pavilion designed in 2016 for Roskilde festival.

5 June – 29 July 2018 / The global consortium AFI curates works on the theme of truth in international artist’s film today. Featuring works by Juan Sorrentino, Vladimir Nikolić and Pelin Kırca

Tate Modern joins forces with 14–18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, to commemorate the significant contribution of African men and women in this conflict

An art historian explains what the Carters’s takeover of the Paris museum says about art, race and power

Curated by the FAD, the project has given rise to the first independent design map of Barcelona, a living map featuring a selection of 30 on-trend creators, new talents and young brands with their own point of sale.

Faire les choses en grand pour marquer les esprits, c’est le parti pris adopté par STUDIOKCA avec son installation exposée lors de la Triennale de Bruges. L’œuvre baptisée Skyscraper dénonce la pollution des océans. Un propos engagé qui n’est pas passé inaperçu.

Creative duo Bompas & Parr are no strangers to creating a spectacle with their immersive and sensory design experiences, often making them theatrical and full of fantasy. Their latest endeavour is no different, as they open an exhibition exploring past, present and future of a summer time staple – ice cream, set inside the newly […]

Through his conceptual installations, the designer and Elisava Alumni Octavi Serra offers a critical view on the relation between man and nature. The objective: to invite us to take care of our environment.

The work of Swedish multidisciplinary artist Klas Herbert Ernflo is striking: simple forms render complex ideas, and in his latest work—a series of 18 panels—it almost seems as if he has rendered the tapestries of old mythologies anew.