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Jun 21, 2026 In Praise of the Visible Hand The wobble in the line, the thumbprint in the clay, the seam that didn't quite meet — for a decade these were errors t... Jul 22, 2014 Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Three empty rooms. No phones, no cameras, no watches. For 512 hours Marina Abramović offered the public nothing but her... Jul 10, 2013 The Color Project: Adrien Broom's Rooms of One Hue A girl steps through a series of rooms, each one drowned in a single saturated colour — red, then blue, then gold. Adr... Jun 20, 2013 CURVY: A Decade of Women Who Draw Since 2003, CURVY has put 100 female illustrators in print every year — from the obvious art capitals to Malta, Moscow... Jun 12, 2013 Art Is a Relationship A watercolour pond of goldfish laid on a greenhouse floor; a plaster girl hidden among the plants; a family studied like... May 20, 2013 March Studio: Designing With What's Left Over Founded in 2007 on a shoestring, March Studio turned scarcity into a method — recycled materials, leftover packaging, ... Apr 15, 2013 Sandrine Pelletier: Goodbye Horses Wool dipped in molten latex and tar, spread thinly over a horse-shaped mould, the wire skeleton then pulled out — leav... Apr 9, 2013 Two Words With: Olivier Valsecchi Bodies dissolving into clouds of ash, half-sculpture, half-disappearance. The French photographer Olivier Valsecchi talk... Mar 18, 2013 Olivia Fraser: The Modern Miniaturist Hand-ground lapis and malachite, paper burnished smooth, brushes of a few squirrel hairs. The Scottish-born painter Oliv... Mar 12, 2013 David Pidgeon: The Designer Who Aims for the Moon “Aim for the moon.” David Pidgeon can't draw to save himself, by his own admission — and yet his typographic exper... Feb 6, 2013 One Billion Rising: The Day the World Danced On V-Day's 15th anniversary — 14 February 2013 — one billion women and those who love them were called to walk out, ... Jul 17, 2012 Vikram Kushwah: Reliving Childhood Memories Misty forests, floating books, girls in vintage dress caught mid-reverie. Vikram Kushwah makes fashion photographs that ...