Arts + Culture

Hannah Carlson|Books

Schiaparelli’s Pockets

Sensible aspects of clothing are “no sooner put into use than put into play,” dress historian Ann Hollander observed.

Susan Morris|Reviews

Tribeca 2023: Artist Lives

A clutch of films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival centered around the lives of artists.

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 …

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 …

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.