Happy Birthday Dear Academie

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and its renowned Fashion Department celebrate their 350th and 50th anniversaries in a major joint project

London, Paris, Milan and New York are usually the first cities that come to mind as the breeding grounds of art and culture. Yet it’s in Antwerp, Belgium (with a population of around 500,000), where the Royal Academy of Fine Arts has been producing artists who shook up the art world—from Vincent van Gogh to Luc Tuymans. Founded in 1663, it’s the fourth-oldest art academy …

Interview: Formafantasma Studio

The Netherlands-based, Italian "design bastards" put together their entire body of work for a solo exhibition

by Stefano Caggiano Formafantasma—a studio based in Eindhoven, Netherlands—is run by Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Ferrasin, who have become famous over the past few years for their alchemical approach to design and their use of live materials such as sea sponge and natural resins. The duo began working together during their university studies; now their work bends the barriers and ventures into strange …

Meow Brow by Casey Weldon

The artist's latest exhibition explores the creepy cuteness of four-eyed felines, on show at SF's Spoke Art

Spoke Art‘s freshly opened space at 804 Sutter Street in San Francisco is set to be christened this weekend by artist Casey Weldon. “Meow Brow” showcases new work that takes on the familiar cliché of the adorable kitten, a trope that Weldon has perverted by adding extra sets of eyes to give viewers nauseating double-vision. The gallery chose to celebrate the expansion by coupling Weldon’s …