Nuit Blanche 2018: Forward by Daniel Iregui
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The Polychromatic Glass Designs of Germans Ermičs
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The Distorted Surrealist Artwork of Naji Chalhoub
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The Otherwordly Visual Poetry of Guillaume Amat
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Bjarke Ingel’s Group Designs Habitat 2.0 for Toronto’s King West
Architecture firm BIG's verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie's experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. The King West Street development, first revealed in 2016, has gained permission to begin construction in Canada's largest city. Its design by Bjarke Ingels'
Mickey Mouse: The True Original Design Competition
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The Neo-Figuratist Portraiture of Emilio Villalba
The 1990s saw a revival of neo-expressive and neo-figurative painting, wherein the gestural properties of the medium itself again came to the fore. Its exponents worked in tune with tradition and with their attention focused on the expressive potentiality inherent