North Home Textiles

Pieces designed by Aboriginal Australian artists, with profits benefitting indigenous communities

With a focus on celebrating Aboriginal Australian artists and the diversity of their skills and crafts, new Australian homewares company North Home offers striking products that not only look beautiful, but also empower and support indigenous communities. With 70% of the profits going directly to the Foundation for Young Australians’ community youth program, the label helps create a source of sustainable income, and supports and …

JR’s “Can Art Change the World?”

A retrospective book of the street artist and activist's work

French street artist and activist JR posed a loaded question on stage in 2011, when he was awarded the $100,000 TED Prize: can art change the world? A book of the same name, published by Phaidon and made in close collaboration with JR, gives one of many possible answers via a retrospective look at his work. Taking the reader through the public streets as well …

Matthew Porter’s “Four False Starts” Exhibition

The Brooklyn-based artist blurs the lines of photographic manipulation in his LA show

Brooklyn-based artist Matthew Porter is part of a large group of contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of traditional photographic techniques and blurring the lines of digital and film manipulation. What sets Porter apart, however, are his calculated transitions between manipulated and straight photography. His recent book “Archepelago” (selected as one of our top picks at the New York Art Book Fair) was designed to highlight …