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Zoe Cooper

Berlin, Germany, New York
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Covers:  Art, architecture, graphic design, urban design, film, television, virtual reality, technology, feminism.
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Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on exploring the absurdity of national borders

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on exploring the absurdity of national borders

Vox — What do borders mean in today's world of mass migration? In a sprawling art project and companion documentary, Ai Weiwei ponders the question. A cultural figure with an international reputation, Ai Weiwei is not just an artist - he's a political activist, architect, filmmaker, curator, and publisher, too.
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Staging the surreal with Italian photographer and co-founder of Toiletpaper, Pierpaolo Ferrari

Staging the surreal with Italian photographer and co-founder of Toiletpaper, Pierpaolo Ferrari

freundevonfreunden.com — A fashion model curls her hair using hot dogs. A giant hand clips off a bird's wing with a pair of scissors. A pair of dress shoes are filled to the brim with tomato-sauce covered spaghetti. Two lipstick kisses mark the inside of a toilet bowl.
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The British are Coming: Thomas Heatherwick Arrives in the USA

The British are Coming: Thomas Heatherwick Arrives in the USA

Core77 — It's official: English architect Thomas Heatherwick has arrived stateside. In anticipation of his forthcoming projects in New York and California, Cooper Hewitt curator Brooke Hodge organized an exhibition, aptly titled Provocations, to introduce American audiences to Heatherwick Studio's impressive body of work. After stops at the Nasher Sculpture Center in
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High Performance Architecture: A Jenny Sabin Installation Marries Design With Science

High Performance Architecture: A Jenny Sabin Installation Marries Design With Science

Architizer — Jenny Sabin is fascinated by the intersection of architecture and science. The head of her own experimental design studio and a faculty member of Cornell Uni...
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Rein Vollenga

Rein Vollenga

Highsnobiety — In anticipation of his upcoming solo show, we visited Dutch sculptor Rein Vollenga at his Berlin studio to talk art, fashion and craftsmanship. The artist's sleek, futuristic sculptures have appeared in glossy magazine editorial spreads, impressive museum exhibitions and imaginative music videos artists including Lady Gaga.
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Paula Scher's Cartographic Paintings

Paula Scher's Cartographic Paintings

Disegno — The Pentagram partner's cartographic paintings combine art and design to map out her personal vision of America
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Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines at Gagosian Gallery

Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines at Gagosian Gallery

photographmag.com — In 2011, Gregory Crewdson left his busy life in New York for the quiet, rural town of Becket, Massachusetts. Reeling from a recent divorce, the photographer lived in a former church and spent his days wandering the snowy forests. On a walk deep in the woods, Crewdson came across a [...]
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BitchCoin Creator Makes Art Out Of Stock Trades

BitchCoin Creator Makes Art Out Of Stock Trades

milk.xyz — Artist Sarah Meyohas first struck out with the cryptocurrency BitchCoin, which is described on its website as "a digital currency backed by the photography of Sarah Meyohas, at a fixed exchange rate of 1 BitchCoin to 25 square inches of photographic print."
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On Venice's Outskirts, Young Artists Are Using Creativity to Solve Real-World Problems

On Venice's Outskirts, Young Artists Are Using Creativity to Solve Real-World Problems

artsy.net — In the small Italian city of Treviso, half an hour outside of Venice, a 17th-century villa has become a modern-day Bauhaus. Like the progressive art school that became the epicenter of design innovation in the early 20th century, Fabrica is filled with young creatives churning out fresh, experimental ideas.
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The Artist Using Ceramic Heads to Explore Family Dynamics

The Artist Using Ceramic Heads to Explore Family Dynamics

AnOther Magazine — English artist Emma Hart is fascinated by family dynamics and patterns. Her most recent installation work, playfully titled Mamma Mia!, is an artist's interpretation of a family tree; several head-shaped ceramic jugs hang upside down in a dark gallery space, each piece connected by a red rope.
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An Elephant in Turin

An Elephant in Turin

Elephant Magazine —
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Photography Collectives Are On the Rise-Here Are 7 to Watch

Photography Collectives Are On the Rise-Here Are 7 to Watch

Artsy — It's not easy to be a photographer. The competition is steep, the work is often solitary, and the financial realities of working in the industry can be difficult, to say the least. In recent years, these challenges have driven a growing number of young photographers to form collectives to increase their community and visibility.
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5 ambitious new art galleries opening in Venice

5 ambitious new art galleries opening in Venice

The Spaces — For six months every two years during the Venice Biennale, the floating city bursts to life with art exhibitions, luring in the creative crowd from all corners of the globe. Its main Arsenale and Giardini venues reopen their doors, while churches, palazzos and music academies are co-opted for a plethora of collateral events.
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More than Documenta / Athens

More than Documenta / Athens

Flash Art Online — A city associated with economic troubles and reverence for ancient culture, Athens isn't known as an epicenter for contemporary art. And yet, during the opening of Documenta 14 , the local art scene grabbed the opportunity to make an impression. Many visitors gravitated toward the NEON Foundation's site-specific exhibition by British artist Michael Landy.
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Five Emerging Trends We Spotted at Paris Photo Fair

Five Emerging Trends We Spotted at Paris Photo Fair

AnOther Magazine — The 20th edition of Paris Photo - the fine art photography world's most prestigious fair - brought together top galleries and publishers under the Grand Palais' iconic glass roof. Visitors poured inside the elegant Beaux-Arts style exhibition space to explore pop-up installations, wander through rows of gallery booths, and chat about the art market over glasses of champagne.
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Ten of the Best Films We Saw at the Berlinale Film Festival

Ten of the Best Films We Saw at the Berlinale Film Festival

AnOther Magazine — One of Europe's most exciting film festivals, the Berlinale is known for its top-quality programming and international outlook; films by well-known directors are shown alongside independent projects by new faces. Now in its 67th year, the festival's influence has only grown stronger with distributors, filmmakers, and audiences alike.
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