On October 6 Karim Rashid speaks on a poetics of “product” at the World Design Insight Forum in Seoul, South Korea. His Karimanifesto deals in  how the human experience criterion leads design (body as site of poetical …

Reuters reported yesterday that the bankrupt Fremont, Calif.-based solar firm Solyndra has been cleared for bankruptcy auction on October 27th – with a Delaware bankruptcy judge directing the firm to attend a major solar trade show …

Design Santa Fe 2011 deals in the theme of “Change Makers,” with the change question going to the social effects of architecture and design as forces of remediation against disasters – and systems thinking on innovation. Cameron …

It is often possible to see terrific photography exhibitions in San Francisco and Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach, at SFMOMA through October 16, is one of …

Podcast: Download Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), is one of some 60 participating arts organizations in Los Angeles and Southern California that are part of a city-wide arts exhibition explosion and extravaganza, Pacific Standard Time. Los …

David Floria Gallery in Aspen is a thumbnail-sized space, in which a show of two- dimensional works by 11 artists, often incorporating sculptural gestures and shapes, asks you right off to unbind your imagination. Pay little …

You know you’re in a new world order when the New York Times gives Burning Man three appearances in the Sunday paper. Including this one in Business Day speculating on the festival’s transition to nonprofit management …

Perhaps the theory that says nothing is wasted is correct, especially if (like me) you’ve never been able quite to get behind that astonishing notion that time marches “on,” meaning forward, meaning the supposedly or inadvertently …

Rulan Tangen’s Of Bodies of Elements presented to a packed house at the James A. Little Theater on Friday night, August 19. Tangen, the founder and director of Dancing Earth, the seven-year-old company that is the …

Indian Market weekend brings a particular glut of art events of which the contemporary need to be culled out, and that’s why we’re here. In the years that Darren Vigil Gray’s work often  has won solo …