The New York chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year at the 2014 President’s Dinner Gala. For this occasion, the ASLA has selected the Rockefeller Foundation’s Judith Rodin, the Trust for Governors Island’s Leslie Koch, and the NY1 News Organization as their honored guests. All Renderings Courtesy […]
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Heads up architects, designers, and creatives – Prodigy Design Lab just launched a groundbreaking competition where you can contribute to the design of 17John – New York City’s first crowdsourced hotel – and they’re giving away $50,000 in prizes! They’re looking for innovative designs for collaborative common spaces, fully furnished guest suites, and digital services that provide comfort, community, and connectivity. 17John will be the first “Cotel” – a collaborative hotel where modern day business travelers can come together to network and share ideas. The deadline for entry is April 21st, so submit your ideas today!
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These eighteen foot high wooden sculptures created by artist KAWS are currently on display at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York.
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KAWS’s signature COMPANION figure appears in two new sculptures fabricated in wood – each over eighteen feet high – that rise to the ceiling of the soaring skylit space. In ALONG THE WAY, a pair of the figures, heads lowered and one arm on each other’s back, embrace in a pose of gentle solace. The other work, AT THIS TIME, presents Companion standing alone with head arched back and hands covering the eyes. The posture at once conveys a reluctance to face the world and a withdrawal from what has already been witnessed.
KAWS was born in 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and is based in Brooklyn, New York City. Since receiving his BFA from Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts in 1996, he has continued to refine his transformations of icons of popular culture into characters that have in their own right become instantly recognizable.
The Mary Boone Gallery exhibition, at 541 West 24 Street, will remain on view through 21 December 2013.
Photography courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
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