Art

April 16, 2025

Artist Transforms Discarded Books Into Mini Mountainous Sculptures

Just as books hold knowledge, ancient mountains have their own stories to tell. For over two decades, interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramée has been exploring this concept with his ongoing Bookwork. He breathes new life into old, discarded volumes, transforming their pages into dreamlike, geological sculptures. Laramée currently works from his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, where he’s inspired by the dramatic peaks of the nearby Pico da Caledônia.

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April 11, 2025

Peanuts Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary With a Snoopy Haute Couture Makeover

Back in 1982, Connie Boucher had an idea. For years, she’d been working with Charles M. Schulz on creating products for his Peanuts characters, including plush dolls of the beloved Snoopy alongside dedicated wardrobes with which to accessorize him. Why, she thought after a while, couldn’t Snoopy also wear haute couture? Thus began an enduring tradition of fashion houses curating outfits for Snoopy and, over 40 years later, not much has changed.

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April 10, 2025

Milan Design Week 2025: Google Teams up With Light Artist for Fascinating Interactive Installation

For Milan Design Week, Google Design Studio has teamed up with artist Lachlan Turzcan for an immersive installation that transforms light into something tangible. The work, Lucida (I-IV), is presented in the context of Google's Making the Invisible Visible exhibition, which aims to reveal how abstract ideas become tangible forms. With Lucida, Turzcan hits on this theme with several veils of light that fill an enormous space.

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