Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty at the V&A and Collect 2015 at the Saatchi Gallery

Posted by Poppy Porter

I expected to love my visit to these two exhibitions, to see gorgeous things and return inspired. Instead I have been left with a sense of ambivalence and uncertainty...

My Iron Lung - St Dauvit

Posted by The Justified Sinner

At last I can reveal the "secret project" I have been working on for the last month for "The Contemporary Jewellery Exchange 2015" in which various contemporary jewellers around the world create pieces which they send to each other...

Introducing Lynne Lomofsky

Posted by Leisa Rich

"Life is hard enough without a disability. I struggle with fatigue, depression, visual disabilities as well as the executive function of my brain. By the time I have gotten through the daily chores and cleared the time and space - physical temporal and mental space - to get down to work I feel as if I have been walking through soup and only once I sit down to paint do I feel a sense of relief and my anxiety dissipates enough to concentrate for a half hour at a time.”

Marcel Wanders - Bringing Back the Human Touch

Marcel Wanders (Boxtel, 1963) graduated cum laude from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) in Arnhem in 1988 after being expelled from Eindhoven Design Academy.

One Design - My Video

Posted by Melissa Cameron

Some of you might remember this little video from last year, when I posted it up on this blog? I created it to given an insight into my working methods, ahead of the exhibition of the works it featured, the One Design show.

Out of the Box - Sneaker Culture Museum Tour in the United States

“We want to broaden our audience and (present) different forms of art and really get people to come to the museum who may not think of this as a place that’s interested in the things they’re interested in.”

Call for Artists: Find Your Park Collaboration

In honor of the National Park Service turning 100 in 2016. Anyone can contribute their art and ideas for the "Find Your Park" collaboration.

Emily Kidson - Splashes of Color

I design and make mixed-media contemporary jewellery that combines a minimal aesthetic with splashes of color and clusters of detail.

Chairy Tales at COLLECT: Studio Tord Boontje

Chairy Tales is a presentation during COLLECT 2015 of eleven chairs, which I designed between 1999 and 2015. Each of theses chairs was made for different purposes in different materials, using different techniques. Together as a collection, they form a narrative of the development of my practice and illustrate the diversity of my work.

- Tord Boontje

Vivienne Westwood

I didn't know this about Vivienne Westwood: At the age of 16 she moved with her family from northern England to Harrow, Middlesex, where she embarked on a silversmithing and jewelry-making course at Harrow School of Art...

Currently on Display @ SAC Boston

In the window of the Retail Gallery this month is an installation by Barbara Poole entitled Invasive Species/Unintended Consequences.