Art Paris Art Fair

Intimacy and illusion in a range of contemporary photography seen at the show

Representing 120 galleries from 16 countries, the spring Art Paris Art Fair offers a prime opportunity to observe the latest tendencies in the modern and contemporary art markets. This year we found particular attention paid to photography, unveiling the intriguing progress of the exploration of intimacy. The images that stood out to us traced a progression from a series of building facades taken in 2007 …

Ampersand Gallery and Dunderdon

A Portland collector's antique imagery and artifacts add new depth to a Swedish workwear label's NYC shop

The seemingly surprising collaboration between Portland’s Ampersand Gallery and Swedish workwear company Dunderdon came about in a wholly organic fashion. Les Szabo, a long-time Portland resident and the owner of Dunderdon USA, walked into Ampersand one day and simply liked the way it looked. “We started talking about a collaboration back in October, but it wasn’t until this spring that we began to formalize what …

Current State: Snowboarding

Tracing the sport's past and present in a pair of complementary books

Written, edited and designed by professional snowboarder, graphic designer and filmmaker David Benedek, the new two-volume book “Current State: Snowboarding” marks three years of hard work across 450 pages. Interviews with some of the sport’s most prolific characters, such as Jake Burton, Terje Haakonsen, Shaun Palmer and Peter Line, are included alongside images from the past three decades. This massive tome attempts to show the …