Published last month, The World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman (with a foreword by James Elkins and contributions by an impressive team of international academics and experts) is an erudite guided tour of the world of contemporary tattoo. Illustrated with over 700 full color photographs of tattoos by artists from all
Dear readers, thank you for responding with both words and pictures to our recent contests. We love hearing from you. Please stay tuned for more opportunities soon to win copies of our marvelous books (and check out our two ongoing contests, for An Eames Anthology and Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the
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
The Exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video has just opened to much acclaim at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. We are deciding which train to take in to the city to see the show, which has spent the past 16 months traveling around the country