material translations

Images from Material Translations exhibition at Art Institute Chicago, featuring five Japanese fashion designers — Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto and Jun Takahashi — and installation by Jan Tichy (Czech).

Details at artic.edu/node/2468

Up next 100 day project Back in January I watched this TEDx talk by Emma Rogan about 100-day projects (such a pleasure to hear her kiwi accent) based on the teaching work bubble Sarah Crompton has written an opinion piece in The Telegraph about The Place Prize. She suggests that dance can’t “gain a foothold in the wider

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