Although Chemnitz's co-tenure, along with Nova Gorica, Slovenia, as European Capital of Culture 2025, officially kicked off in January, it's only of late, as the days have got and longer and warmer, that the programme has really started to blossom. And as we were preparing our exhibition recommendations list for April 2025 we noted a quartet of events in Chemnitz worthy of suggestion. Unwilling to force ourselves to decided which to include in our list and to which to ignore, which seemed
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According to Axl Rose, "...it's hard to hold a candle, in the cold November rain." The question is surely, why you would want to? It sounds like a thoroughly foolish thing to do. The clocks have changed, it's dark, cold, we're all a little down, but honestly Axl, standing outside with candles ain't going to make things better. Visiting one of the following five new architecture and design exhibitions however might just.... Fear and Love – Reactions to a complex world at the Design Museum,
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Just as the devil has the best tunes so does nature posses all the best structural forms. Consequently engineers and designers have long looked to nature for inspiration, the results being as varied, mundane and ultimately important as Velcro, turbines and even train noses. The secret of course is knowing where to look. The early "bird men", for example, thought flight was all about flapping. It isn't. It's about air flows, keel-shaped sternums and hollow bones. Once that had been understood
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