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Laurent Troost turns abandoned Brazilian building into co-working venue Dezeen 07/03/2021 © Provided by Dezeen Cassina Innovation House by Lauren Troost Workspaces look upon a mini jungle in this 125-year-old brick building in Manaus, Brazil, which has been thoughtfully revitalised by design studio Laurent Troost Architectures. Called the Cassina Innovation House, the project entailed the adaptive reuse of a dilapidated historic structure in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas. �...

Art should always make you laugh a little and fear a little. Anything but bore’. Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry of everyday life in a gritty, more authentic way. Drawn from international public and private collections, Brutal Beauty brings to...

Hospitality business on market for £1.7m sold to couple Near Howe A former farmhouse in Cumbria that was turned into a self-catering hospitality business has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Near Howe, between Keswick and Penrith, was on the market for £1.7 million. It has been bought Mark and Fiona Shore, who will be moving to the Lakes from Hertfordshire. The former owners, Steve and Jill Woolley, were represented by the specialist hotels agency team at real estate advisors Colliers. F...

Lisa Le Feuvre, executive director, Holt-Smithson Foundation. Photo courtesy of Claudine Hartzel. Lisa Le Feuvre, the head of the Holt-Smithson Foundation, which she has led since 2017, spends a lot of time reading. In fact, it’s how she begins most of her mornings, although she doesn’t consider it a luxury. Education for all is one of her passions. We spoke with Le Feuvre about her recent work with the artists’ foundation, what she’s been reading of late, and why she advocates for li...

Two of the most famous pieces of Land Art—Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty(1970) and Nancy Holts (1973-76), each sited remotely in the Utah landscape—are more widely known through photography, writing and legend than firsthand experience. Continuing the late couple’s investigation of places on the planet at once real and imagined, the Holt/Smithson Foundation has just invited five contemporary artists—Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, Joan Jonas, and Oscar Santillán—to de...

Robert Smithson, Grave Mounds with Object, ca. 1966 © HOLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION / VAGA AT ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY Curated by Highsnobiety and presented during the time period formerly known as Paris Men’s Fashion Week, “Not In Paris 2” is our second in a series of bi-annual digital exhibitions celebrating creativity in the age of remote interactions. Head here for the full series and cop our new merch via our online store. Throughout his career, the late artist Robert Smithson dr...

Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city—a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece, Gully Curtains, h...

/ As a focal point for the oil industry in the US, Oklahoma is associated with roads (Route 66), cars and gasoline. All these feature significantly in the oeuvre of Ed Ruscha, who, although he is primarily associated with the cityscape of Los Angeles, grew up in Oklahoma (city and state). Ruscha has said that everything he’s done was already part of him when he left Oklahoma at 18. From early in his career, Ruscha began to isolate and recombine words and images Ed Ruscha: OKLA at Oklahoma Co...

Highsnobiety Presents Its Encore to “Not In Paris” Highsnobiety Presents Its Encore to “Not In Paris” Highsnobiety Highsnobiety is heading to France once again — virtually, that is — for a second digital exhibition, known as "Not In Paris II." Having launched the online program last June amid the cancellation of in-person runway shows at Paris Men’s Fashion Week, the ensuing installment of "Not In Paris" will bring even more exclusive content to readers all across the globe. “Wh...

SINSEL Carol Lynn Smithson Sinsel, 64, of 167 Cole Street, Philippi, went to the feet of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Jan. 12, 2021, at her home surrounded by her family after fighting a courageous battle with cancer. She is the daughter of Anna Gale Roberts Smithson and the late V.L. “Sonny” Smithson of Belington. She was born Jan. 28, 1956, in Parsons. She married Steven Hall Sinsel, who has been a wonderful husband and care giver, on Aug. 20, 1977, at the Belington Baptist Chur...