Highlights from China’s Massive Snow and Ice Festival

Each year, the northern city of Harbin, China hosts the International Snow Sculpture Art Expo—a spectacular exhibition showcasing the wonders of ice and snow as a building material. Officially opened on 5 January, this year’s event features the works of artists around the world and the crystalline castles, monstrous stark-white sculptures and frozen corridors they’ve spent weeks building. Head to the Atlantic to see some …

Thirty Years of Chinese American Designer Han Feng

Reflecting on her synthesis of eastern and western inspiration

Han Feng rose to prominence in the ’90s as the first Chinese designer to show at New York Fashion Week. It may be no coincidence that Feng, who apportions her time equally between a Shanghai atelier and a NoMad, NYC loft—where she showcases her own work and that of emerging Chinese artists—has both Eastern and Western influences. Her loft is a Manhattan footprint reflective of …

Interview: Samson Young

The sound artist (and the first BMW Art Journey recipient) on bells and explosions

The only bells I hear on a regular basis are of the synthetic (and semi-annoying) kind: the preset “Chimes” and “Bell Tower” iPhone alarms signaling that morning has come. Not so easy to snooze or block out, however, are physical bells. With each strike, the bell’s ringing extricates itself from the ambient noise, soaring through the air, jolting attentions and uniting those within its audible …