The Untethered Mind: Creativity and Mental Illness
According to Aristotle, “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." The great Georgia O’Keeffe’s dreamy close-up still-life and landscape paintings hardly bespeak her lifetime of anxiety and depression,…
Intelligent Worlds: Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality in Creative Industries
You wouldn’t think much of it as you swipe your way through Spotify, but your ability to discover new artists recommended by your own music preferences on the app is nothing short…
A Saline Escape: the Great Salt Flats of the World
Avid travelers, a young couple thinks they’ve seen it all. They’ve been to the greatest cities in the world like Milan, Paris, London, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore. They’ve been to the most beautiful…
A Luxury Revolution: Fashion Past to Present and the Rise of Streetwear
Nothing explains fashion’s stranglehold on contemporary culture than Instagram, as the popular social media platform is flooded with beautiful people, donning both branded and unbranded clothing. Whether sponsored or based on the…
Ancient Aesthetics Reinterpreted: Japanese-American Contemporary Masters
Zen Buddhists have a popular mantra with spiritual, aesthetic, and practical wisdom: “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Emptiness here is not only a spiritual state–a meditative realization–but also an aesthetic ideal,…
Contemporary Iranian Art in Today’s Society
The contemporary art markets and scenes, in all their voracity for provocative, moving, and innovative work, casts its eager eyes into international directions. Iran is one such region that is vastly diversifying…
Water Worlds – Unseen Beauty
The ocean once presented a challenge to human exploration. For centuries the worlds underwater were impenetrable lands and we could only dream of what fantastic worlds lay at its bottom.…
World’s Most Colorful Cities
Colorful cities exist around the world. When you’re traveling to new places, it’s the sites, scenes, people, food and cultural experiences that create your memories along your journey. In every corner of…
Iconic Public Art Around the World
When you think of art, you probably conjure the image of a museum or canvases hanging enclosed in glass on walls. But, iconic public art is everywhere, and it engages its passersby…