Arts + Culture

Mark Lamster|Essays

We Regret to Inform You That Love Will Not Save the Day

The big story on East 7th Street these days is the opening of Thom Mayne's new student center for Cooper Union, on Third Avenue.

Karen Stein|Essays

The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things

Judd worked as an art critic in his early years in New York as he established himself as an artist. From 1959 until the mid-1960s, his art criticism was his primary, if not only, source of income

Mark Lamster|Essays

Ron Arad at MoMA

I'm not sold on Arad as an architect, but his material experimentation is certainly admirable

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Crafting A City

Two of my favorite things came together this weekend: Dutch design and Governors Island.

John Cantwell|Essays

The Big Screen in Big D

The brand new $1.2 billion home of the Dallas cowboys has a design feature that promises to turn football games there into a weird mashup of football and pinball.

Dmitri Siegel|Essays

Lost In the Supermarket

Dmitri Siegel gets lost in the Supermarket and encounters incredibly grippy toothbushes, spouts, nozzles, Thorstein Veblen and Adolf Loos.

Kerry William Purcell|Essays

The Art of Psychographics

Each and every graphic design signifies a memory. A familiar sign, map or poster can often trigger a set of associations in the viewer, a series of thoughts and feelings that have their own unique trajectory. 

Jane Margolies|Projects

Pig 05049

Report on Pig 05049, a book cataloging all of the products made from a single pig, which won the 2009 INDEX award in the Playful Learning category

Ernest Beck|Projects

Chulha Stove

Report on the Chulha stove designed by Philips to reduce indoor air pollution in developing countries.

Inkahoots|Gallery

Australians All Let Us Text

"New Anthems" art project by Inkahoots for Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane, Australia.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

First Flight

My two-year-old made his first interpretation of art on Saturday at the Storm King Art Center.

John Emerson|Interviews

Pressed into Service

Interview with Lincoln Cushing, co-author of Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters.