Art Stories

Studio Roosegaarde’s Lotus Dome at the Rijksmuseum

Art Story #2: Interactive Art

Reinventing the Book | Case Study: Irma Boom

If electronic media is a practical tool for conveying information, books are information sculpture. From now on, books will be judged by how well they awake this materiality, because the decision to create a book at all would be based on a definite…

A FRESH LOOK AT 15TH CENTURY ART

The Magic of Google Art Project

Everyone take cover: The Met has a new logo

Next month the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will introduce its new corporate identity, so why is the internet so upset?

William Blake’s Illuminated Songs: Something between a Thing and a Thought

William Blake (1757–1827) has truly been a remarkable phenomenon in the history of Western art and literature. Equally gifted as a poet, painter and a printer, in all, he produced some 1400 designs or…

Munch: Van Gogh Exhibition, Amsterdam

Earlier this week I visited the newly opened Munch: Van Gogh exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. As many of my friends and family — who absolutely adore Van Gogh and curious about Munch — couldn’t enjoy the exhibition, I decided to bring the exhibition…