The new contemporary art museum in Rome, MAXXI, opened May 30th 2010. Controversy still surrounds the design of the building by architect Zaha Hadid, but one thing’s for sure: there is a new, international feeling in and around this building. I went to the MAXXI last week to breathe some of this international, contemporary air. […]
On now through October 17 2010 in Rovereto at the Casa d’Arte Futurista Fortunato Depero (Via Portici, 38 Rovereto (TN)), the exhibit Mendini > Depero presents furniture and tapestries designed by the Milanese architect and designer Alessandro Mendini that are inspired by the creativity of the Rovereto-born Fortunato Depero. This part of the museum in […]
This video is a collaboration between the young director Nicolas Heller and the author/designer/professor Steven Heller. Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, who are co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author Program School of Visual Arts in New York, contributed “The Twenty Senses” to Illywords #21 “Senti-mentality”. Richard Wilde is their colleague at SVA. Such videos […]
When I think about coffee, the word that springs to my mind is “intimacy”. And I have several good reasons for this: I have had a coffee stain (birthmark) under my arm since I was born; my great grandmother used to roast her weekly dose in the kitchen and I could tell with my little […]