Design Museum
The story of the trainer is the story of pop culture, sporting performance, hype, globalisation, industrial design, technical innovation, late capitalism and the internet. It is a story for our times. By 2025, the trainer industry is, according to market analysts Grand View Research, predicted to be worth £68bn. And it’s not just about churning out cheap, lightweight running shoes. The trainer has penetrated haute couture Dior now collaborates with Nike! and establishment art institutions like Sotheby’s clamour for rare models that can fetch hundreds of thousands on the auctioneer’s block. And now, a new exhibition aims to untangle the sporting, cultural and design relevance of trainers, to explain where the phenomenon came from and where it’s going.“If you think about putting on an exhibition with work that people perceive as ‘artwork’ and have collected for many years, it’s a slightly more straightforward process than looking at something that i
Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson RUPTURE NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach
Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen.
LONDON
.- Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) is the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. This major commission is the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipsons expansive, multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.
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Virgil Abloh to Deliver Keynote Address at Rhode Island School of Design 2021 Commencement
Abloh, architect Elizabeth Diller, OBEY Giant founder Shepard Fairey and playwright Lynn Nottage will receive honorary degrees
PROVIDENCE, RI – On Saturday, June 5, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will award degrees to 403 undergraduate and 212 graduate students, celebrating the achievements and perseverance of the Class of 2021. The day will begin with a fully virtual speaking and awards program at 10 am ET, followed by an in-person degree conferral at 2 pm ET on South Water Street in Providence. Due to continued COVID-19 health and safety protocols regarding allowable gathering sizes, families and friends are invited to watch both parts of the celebration remotely via Livestream at commencement.risd.edu.