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Photographer Filip Dujardin's solo exhibit blurs the line between architectural fact and fiction

With his wonderfully imaginative architectural “photomontages,” artist Filip Dujardin addresses questions of what might have been and what’s still to come. Pulling solely from his extensive archive of his own photographs of buildings, urban spaces and landscapes, the Belgian artist dissects and meticulously reassembles images—with the assistance of computer retouching—to create an augmented reality of near-believable structures in bizarrely complementary environments. Dujardin’s second solo exhibition …

Beresheet Hotel

Our trip to the otherworldly property built within Ramon Crater in Israel's Negev Desert

By Andrea Dicenzo The most stunning element to behold at the Beresheet Hotel is the view. While the staff will be eager to point this out to guests, the architecture and design of the structure reveals it first. The surrounding vista is of utmost importance to the design of Beresheet Hotel, a luxury property built directly into a cliff overlooking Israel’s beautiful and otherworldly Negev …

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Artist Michael Sieben updates the children's classic with characteristically kooky illustrations

Originally published to great admiration in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has since secured itself as one of the most recognizable children’s classics of all time. While the beloved story has stood the test of time HarperCollins teamed with Austin-based artist Michael Sieben to update the illustrations, and his charming but mature graphic edition will drop 19 February. As longtime supportes …