Pi day of the century
March 14, 2015
Today is 3/14/15: Pi day of the century. Wherever you live, there are ways to celebrate this rare holiday. We’ve been celebrating in a most colorful way, with the award–winning,… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Win a copy of An Eames Anthology!
March 12, 2015
Ray Eames, the 20th century American designer, was once quoted as saying, “What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.” Of course, the myriad… READ MORE
Arles, Saturday, March 10th, 1888; To Theo van Gogh
March 10, 2015
Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited… READ MORE
Win a Copy of Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland!
March 5, 2015
Coney Island, the New York neighborhood famous for its beaches, boardwalks, resorts, and amusement parks, has been a fixture of our national cultural imagination for a century. Once known as “America’s… READ MORE
The Hague, on or about Saturday, March 3rd, 1883; To Theo van Gogh
March 3, 2015
Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume (deemed a best art book of 2014 by the Huffington… READ MORE
Anti-Theatrical Drama: Interview with Michael Fried by David Ebony
February 27, 2015
David Ebony— One of the country’s foremost art critics and art historians, Michael Fried is no stranger to controversy. His essay on contemporary art, “Art and Objecthood,” featuring a revisionist… READ MORE
For Helena Rubinstein, Beauty was Power
February 24, 2015
Ivy Sanders Schneider — Makeup can act as a symbol both of liberation and oppression. Contentious and unavoidable, ads for lipstick line the subway, and giant mascaraed eyes blink from… READ MORE
From the Designer’s Desk: Frank Baseman
February 20, 2015
Our February 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk is a lively dispatch from from Frank Baseman, principal at Baseman Design Associates. 1.) Why did you pursue Design, rather than, say,… READ MORE
Finding the City with Romare Bearden and Hans Haacke
February 16, 2015
Greg Foster-Rice– The artists Romare Bearden and Hans Haacke are not normally considered together in conventional histories of art, nor are they typically associated with urban planning. But in 1971… READ MORE
What Would William Morris Think? On the Digitization of his Wallpaper.
February 6, 2015
Ivy Sanders Schneider – During his life, the writer, designer, and social activist William Morris struggled with a basic conflict between his livelihood and his liberal beliefs. A staunch socialist,… READ MORE
The Musics of Michel Leiris