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Architect Frank Gehry has a place in the contemporary architects’ hall of fame, and heres why

Filmmaker-artist Tan Chui Mui's exhibition explores artistic pursuits and creative ownership in a photography festival in France

In his curious little book about Flying Saucers, Carl Jung took an interesting detour into the psychology of modern art.  His contemporaries, he said, had ‘taken as their subject the disintegration of forms’, he wrote. Their pictures, ‘abstractly detached from meaning and feeling alike, are distinguished by their “meaninglessness” as much as their deliberate aloofness from the spectator’. Artists ‘have

2021 was the year many long-delayed high-profile projects finally managed to come to a close, overcome additional pandemic-induced delays carried over from 2020, take remaining certification hurdles, and swing their doors open to the anticipating (and sometimes locked down) public. From the...

Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe Art and culture in Arles: the shimmering Luma Tower by star architect Frank Gehry. And: the world elite of base jumpers in Norway. Plus: an artist creates sculptures with the help of thousands of busy bees. Watch video 26:01

Frank Gehrys Luma Tower © Adrian Deweerdt The architect Frank Gehry will unveil his latest blockbuster building—a soaring twisting geometric tower covered with 11,000 stainless steel panels—at Luma Arles this summer, the 27-acre cultural campus in the southern French town of Arles spearheaded and funded by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress and contemporary art collector Maja Hoffmann. Gehry’s tower is the centrepiece of the new arts campus which formally launches ...