Art

In 1980, Los Angeles historian Jim Heimann—whose preservation and documentation of West Coast vernacular design has been a primary source of pop-culture artifacts—published his first thin volume about eccentric roadside architecture. That book, California Crazy, was the bible for commercial/folk art and advertising in the U.S. for over 20 years. Forty years after it premiere, […]

When a heavy hitter in the art world gets a fresh new rebrand, it’s going to make a splash. Such is the case for the Getty (The J. Paul Getty Trust), which unveiled a forward-thinking look earlier this month. Their new visual approach “seeks to define and symbolize what makes it unlike any other arts

In a world that sometimes feels like it’s running on low battery—politically, socially, algorithmically—design conferences might seem like an indulgence. But step inside OFFF Barcelona, and you’re reminded why gathering in real life still matters. From April 16–18, 2026, OFFF returns to the halls of Disseny Hub Barcelona for its 26th edition. Since its founding

After his debut last November with Carminium, Italian artist Federico Vezzaro has returned to New York for his second solo exhibition in the Big Apple, Beyond the Surface, which opened yesterday, April 3, at the Temple Gallery in New York. Once again, he brought with him a medium he himself has described as “new,” one

This week, the Philippe Labaune Gallery introduced “Together” to the art district’s community. Critics and art lovers packed the small gallery to take in the 16 acrylic paintings in Ponzi’s new collection. A traditional medium for a not-so-traditional process. Ponzi’s process began with pen and paper: “I began by writing some diary pages, as if

It’s fair to say that New York City’s modern art scene has seen it all. An Italian artist is on a mission to disrupt this reality with his invention of a brand new medium. Federico Vezzaro spent 15 years developing a way to imprint designs onto metal sheets by exploiting surfaces’s natural oxidation process. The