Matt Shaw

1 month ago | forbes.com | Matt Shaw

New York’s financial district isn’t known for its cutting-edge cultural offerings, but the Water Street Asssociates building is changing that. They have created a hub for artists and creatives in unassuming 31-story, granite-clad office tower that noce housed the headquarters of insurance company A.I.G. On floors five and six, Water Street Projects is hosting some of the best art shows and events in New York.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Matt Shaw

I love world’s fairs and expos. I’ve always wanted to visit one and this year I finally got the chance—at least virtually. The Osaka World Expo, a mega exhibition titled “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” will host an expected 28 million visitors over 184 days from April 13th to October 13th.

Feb 28, 2025 | forbes.com | Matt Shaw

Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour-long Oscar nominee The Brutalist has garnered praise, earning 93% approval from film critics, and 80% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it has been criticized—sometimes harshly—by architecture critics.

Jan 29, 2025 | forbes.com | Matt Shaw

The “Swedish Grace” movement may not be a household name, but its story is full of design history just like many that are. Around the turn of the 20th century, Art Nouveau came into fashion in arts and design across Europe. The style grew out of the Arts and Crafts movement that sought to reinstall the artist as the progenitor of style and craft, rather than the machine, which was quickly reshaping the industrial new world.

Jan 29, 2025 | forbes.com | Matt Shaw

Forbes declared Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, the richest man in America in 1985. When the magazine’s photographers came to take Walton’s picture, he resisted the image of a typical flashy tycoon who showed off his wealth.