Open Score

The U.S. Open of art: Rauschenberg's 1966 performance pairing tennis and technology

Think branded interdisciplinary content is a recent phenomenon? In 1966 a unique project was hatched when conceptual artists and Bell Labs engineers collaborated on a series of live installations inside a National Guard Armory in New York City. One of those, “Open Score” by Robert Rauschenberg, pitted artists—including minimalist painter Frank Stella—against each other in a live game of tennis with rackets wired to switch …

Fall 2011 Missoni for Converse Chuck Taylor All Star

We take the latest in zig-zagged sneakers for a spin on NYC streets

From their collection for Target to Marina, the puppet blogger, Missoni’s playful spirit is hard to miss these days. But their collaboration with Converse, one of the earlier reinventions of the family-run Italian label, is the project that we still gravitate to most. This latest and fourth edition combines a raschel knit (a fabric with a texture almost like crochet) from Missoni’s Spring 2012 collection …

En Masse

A Montreal artist collective collaborates with the San Diego Art Fair

En Masse, a Montreal-based art collective, has penned signature works in association with the Osheaga Festival of Arts and Music, Piknic electronik, Festival International Montréal en Art, Under Pressure, Manifesto (Toronto), Cirque du Soleil and Sid Lee, to name a few. Now the band of artists brings their talent to San Diego. From 1-4 September 2011, four of Montreal’s core En Masse contributors, Jason Botkin, …