( CNN ) 2016 was a year to recollect, or forget, depending on which side of history you’re on. Politics and news aside, the culture world in and of itself was alight with exhibitions, runway demonstrates and creative inventions that will be talked about in years to come. Here’s a look back at some of our most loved stories.
DMM.Planets Art
Each year the design industry descends on Miami Beach, Florida, for Design Miami — an incubator for notions, installations and dialogues that are shaping the world as we know it.
At this year’s fair, CNN Style invited a number of visionary talents from the fields of design, style, art and architecture to let their imaginations run wild with Google’s Tilt Brush — an app that enables users to paint the impossible. Watch here.
Costume Institute’s “Manus x Machina: Style in age of technology”
For those in the classic automobile cosmo there are few words more evocative than “Pebble Beach.” From vintage race cars to the hordes of supercars that take over the golfing community every August, Pebble Beach celebrates automotive elegance.
New York Auto show
“Art carnivals are inevitably not for artists, ” says British artist Idris Khan, whose work combines painting, photography and statue. “What it does is it opens art to the masses a lot more. Not everyone goes to museums , not everyone can go and buy in galleries, so I think it opens up people’s intellects in a much more global way.” CNN Style joined Khan at the eighth edition of Abu Dhabi Art.
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