MoMATH: National Museum of Mathematics offers new perspectives on making the subject approachable

MoMATH

In opening to the general public in NYC last weekend, the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMATH) became the only numerically-focused museum in North America. The idea behind the museum dedicated to the quantitative field, according to mathematician, founder and executive director Glen Whitney, stems from the desire “to remove…

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Reach Ruin: Recycled glass shards and plaster casts recreate a post-apocalyptic landscape in Daniel Arsham’s solo show

Reach Ruin

Working with crushed glass, recycled ceramics, molded sand and the resin for which he is most known, multidisciplinary artist Daniel Arsham expanded upon his preferred material to create “Reach Ruin,” a beautifully resonating solo exhibition currently showing at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum. His ghost-like resin and fiberglass figures…

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Art + Design in Miami: Perspective Shift: Mastering the art of the double-take

Art + Design in Miami: Perspective Shift

Zipping past thousands of exhibitors in dozens of venues during Miami Art Week, it’s easy to miss a piece here and there. After a while, you start to appreciate artists that make you look twice. Toying with perception, detail and physical distance, we found a number of artists that…

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Interview: Matt Vasquez : We team up with Braun to talk to Delta Spirit’s Lead Singer Matt Vasquez about his favorite Built to Perform possession

Interview: Matt Vasquez

Sponsored content: In a high performance world, Braun creates innovative designs built to last seven years. For the Built to Perform series Braun profiles 15 guys in an intimate look at their life passions and the unique objects of design and durability that power their life. Seven years ago, Delta…

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Dispose Issue 04: A day in the life of the four contributors to the online photo journal’s latest edition

Dispose Issue 04

Offering an unedited glimpse into the lives of four strangers each month, online photography journal Dispose distributes disposable cameras to people around the world to do with them what they may. The rules are simple: the whole roll must be shot over the span of one day, a minimum…

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Stencil Style 101 Book Launch and Holiday DIY Event: RSVP to get your craft on

Stencil Style 101 Book Launch and Holiday DIY Event

Tomorrow night, 13 December, Cool Hunting will be joining Stencil1 to launch our friend Ed Roth’s new book, “Stencil Style 101,” with a very crafty DIY stencil holiday party. Held in Converse’s creative space, Rubber Tracks, the event will celebrate the art of stenciling with DIY demos instructed by…

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Art + Design in Miami: Photography: Infrared surveillance film, DIY negatives and suggestive stills seen at Pulse, Art Basel and NADA

Art + Design in Miami: Photography

The vast presentation of photography at last week’s art fairs in Miami included an array of highly impressive artists. Among the tremendous amount of work on display below are five picks of the most compelling photographers at Art Basel, Pulse and NADA this year. Matthew Brandt The well-deserved hype about…

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Kama Sex and Design: Phallic marble chairs, a Great Wall of Vagina and other oddities on display at Italy’s Triennale Museum

Kama Sex and Design

The products of design are often objects of desire, but to what extent can this drive be pushed? The exhibition “Kama Sex and Design” ventures an answer to that weighty question with an analysis of the visual representation of sexual motifs. The starting point is Kama, the Indian god…

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Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo: Jan Fabre’s bug-based series tackles King Leopold II’s Congo

Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo

Sponsored content: One of the most captivating artists at Miami Art Week, Belgian artist Jan Fabre painstakingly creates massive allegorical works entirely out of naturally shedded jewel beetle wings. In the series “Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo,” he uses the biological emerald detritus to comment on the gruesome history…

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Miriam Böhm: Sculpture and photography come together through repetition and illusion

Miriam Böhm

Berlin-based artist Miriam Böhm’s photographs present compelling optical illusions made through a series of complex physical arrangements in the studio. Individually photographed and printed, these physical objects are then mounted back into the original arrangement—in many ways similar to the late work of the Cubist movement—starting a repetitive process…

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