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Susan Morris|Reviews
Tribeca 2023: Housing + Environments
Housing and environments were represented at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.
Susan Morris|Reviews
Tribeca 2023: Dancing + Music
At the 2023 Tribeca Festival, a group of films focused on dancing, specifically ballet, and on music.
Joanna Moorhead|Books
Paris: 1937-1938
An excerpt from Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington.
Susan Morris|Reviews
Tribeca 2023: Politics + the Arts
This years Tribeca Festival featured films about politics and the arts.
Susan Morris|Essays
New Directors/New Films 2023
The 2023 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films, the annual celebration jointly hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art that “has celebrated filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of cinema” featured films that explore worlds …
Caroline Fuchs|Essays
On Design, Courage, and the Power of Typography
Opening remarks given by Dr. Caroline Fuchs, Curator at Kuratorin bei Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum at the opening of Paula Scher’s new retrospective, "Paula Scher: Type is Image."
Jessica Helfand|Exhibitions
Type is (More Than) Image
From record albums and book covers, to editorial illustration and identity programs, to three-dimensional environmental graphics all over the world, typography has always stood at the core of Paula Scher’s work.
Adrian Shaughnessy|Books
Hello Human
A review of Michael Horsham’s Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication, out now from Thames & Hudson.
Susan Morris|Essays
Doc Fortnight 2023
Doc Fortnight is MoMA’s annual international festival of nonfiction film that “celebrates important new discoveries in documentary cinema….both emerging and established artists [that] highlights the ever-growing ambition and experimentation.” …
Laura Scherling|Essays
Imagery Made by a Designer or Artist, with Artificial Intelligence
As an avalanche of AI-assisted imagery has taken over social media feeds and has served as a starting point for further research, this has been followed variously by awe and dismay.
Susan Morris|Essays
Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Music
A roundup of films from the Sundance and Slamdance 2023 festivals that feature music.
Susan Morris|Essays
Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Literary Arts
The 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals roundup of films that feature literary arts.
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Ellen McGirt|Design and Climate Change
What will we do when all the levees break? The Halls and The Streets ft. Congresswoman Barbara Lee & One Fair Wage’s Saru Jayaraman How to pitch Design Observer In the Work ft. L’Oreal Thompson Payton, Dr. Christina Bejarano, Dr. Wendy Smooth, & dancing