Cool Hunting Video Presents: Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial 2008

Three years after Katrina, New Orleans launches a city-spanning biennial of art, America's largest-ever international contemporary art show

Prospect.1 is New Orleans’ first biennial and the largest-ever international contemporary art show in the United States. Similar in style and scope to Venice, the exhibit consists of site-specific art installations, as well as several galleries in museums and elsewhere in the city devoted to it. As the front page of the event’s website proclaims, it’s designed to bring media attention and tourist dollars to …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Capsule Video: Billes Products International Design Contest 2008

When we were asked to judge an inaugural design competition, we took the opportunity to shoot our inaugural Capsule Video

For the inaugural video in our new series of mini-episodes, we’re pleased to present a document of the New Orleans-based Billes Architecture’s first-ever design competition. We were honored to be invited as a judge and, as you’ll see in the video, the results are nothing less than stunning and—perhaps—harbingers of the design future.

Clay Ketter: Gulf Coast Slabs

A show of new work by the American artist Clay Ketter opened in London this week at Bartha Contemporary. Ketter, who has lived in Sweden for over 20 years, is renowned for creating art works through the investigation of construction techniques. His work on the surface has a beautifully minimalist aesthetic, but the real interest lies beneath the layers in a "truth to materials" approach …