Special Interest
The art of Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese method of pottery repair that intentionally highlights surface fractures and broken geometry as design features. In this article from My Modern Met, the author describes the different kinds of Kintsugi techniques that artists have used throughout history. Poetically translated to “golden joinery,
Arts & Lifestyle
In Nancy Pearcy's book Saving Leonardo, she ventures through both art history and parallel developments in religious and philosophical thought. The author uncovers the underlying worldviews of many popular western artists and identifies ways their ideology influences art and culture more broadly. In this particular chapter, she explores
Arts & Lifestyle
This passage, taking from Story of Bau Haus highlights Reinhold Rossig’s thesis and the Bauhaus engagement with social responsibility in city planning, yet it also exposes limitations inherent in highly rationalized, linear urban concepts. While the linear city aimed to solve social issues by organizing functions into clear zones,