Ivy Sanders Schneider– Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, is commonly associated with his eponymous holiday, the color green, shamrocks, and for driving the snakes out of Ireland. However, Patrick, born Maewyn Succat in Roman Britain around 390 AD was not Irish, but British; was never officially canonized as a
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, “magnificent“, “visionary“, “vivid“, and mind-blowing Interaction of Color app. We’ve been learning more about color – as we do every
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 designs she created with her husband and partner, the artist and designer Charles Eames, are both functional and beautiful. Charles believed
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 by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. The letters we feature will be posted on the same day of
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 Playground,” Coney Island has hosted, during its long history, world-famous circus performers, magicians, and sideshow freaks, among so many other
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 Post) of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. The
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 view of modernism, caused a stir early in his career when it was first published in 1967. Fried argued against
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 billboards. People across ages, genders, and geography wear it – a swipe of tinted chapstick, a little foundation, or maybe
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, Painting or Architecture or Sculpture? I dunno, I thought about Architecture for a little while when I was a kid—or
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 they simultaneously made distinctive contributions to our understanding of urbanism, revealing the centrality of the city – both its problems