San Francisco-based Síol specializes in a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to architecture, interior design, and landscape design. There’s no illusion: the spaces they create are for others, and the complexities of location, clients and environments inspire them. We sit down with the firm’s principals, Kevin Hackett, Jessica Weigley, and Robo Gerson to learn more about their work, how a reverence for nature guides their explorations, and how they collectively strive to nurture the whole of all that they do.
Read MoreThe work of Christy Lee Rogers commands attention. In today’s post-modern art world, where an artist’s self-awareness, agenda, or process can easily take center stage, Rogers’ work is unique in that its greatness comes from its beauty and its power to captivate, penetrate reality, and inspire.
Read MoreSince founding the Mill Valley Film Festival in 1977, Mark Fishkin has shepherded this once small, three-day showcase into an eleven-day, internationally acclaimed cinema event presenting a wide variety of new films from around the world in an engaged, community setting.
Read MoreWe take you deep into the lush Yucatan with Sausalito-based couture fashion label Très Nomad, known for its bespoke, hand-dyed silk designs.
Read MoreNew York-based wire sculpture and performance artist Skye Ferrante has made waves, headlines and the occasional spectacle for his provocative and truly distinct body of work. We sit down and get uterly candid with the Man of Wire to learn more about his mind- and wire-bending process and his fascination with the nude form, with a welcome dose of his signature wit to match.
Read MoreLook for art in unusual places because creativity is everywhere,” says Tom di Maria, Director of External Relations at Creative Growth, a nonprofit art studio founded in 1974 for artists with disabilities in downtown Oakland.
Read MoreIwona Tenzing is one of the world’s leading Himalayan art dealers. Her gallery, Tenzing Asian Art, services collectors and clients from San Francisco to Hong Kong to Zurich. We catch up with the gallery owner to learn more about her affinity for her work on the brink of her latest exhibition on rare art from the 10th to 13th centuries hitting Hong Kong September 29 through October 2.
Read MoreWhen Javier Martin won Spain’s national award, Caja Madrid, at the ripe age of nine, it was the beginning of a burgeoning career. His signature portraiture and provocative subjects have been exhibited around the world, from Miami to Marbella to Shanghai. We catch up with the artist in Manhattan for his latest solo exhibition of Blindness - The Appropriation of Beauty, curated by Robert C. Morgan.
Read MoreShanghai-based artist Lu Xinjian is one of China’s brightest contemporary artists exhibiting his abstract, vibrant paintings globally. We catch up with Xinjian to discuss his work and latest collection, Reflections.
Read MoreFrancis Mill and Michael Hackett, owners of San Francisco’s Hackett Mill gallery, have collected and placed 20th and 21st Century artworks publicly and privately for over 30 years. This October, their highly-anticipated new gallery space opens near the SFMOMA, home to inspired collections, exhibitions and lectures.
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