Arts + Culture

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Observed|Blog Posts

Craft, Art + Design Oral History Project

The Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art & Design Oral History Project is admirably ambitious.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Criticism = Love

Why you have to love design to be a critic.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Imperfect Beauty

A collection of 26 photographic images with either deliberate or accidental flaws.

John Thackara|Essays

Conflict and Design

A review of the design triennial in Belgium on the theme of Conflict and Design.

Observed|Miscellaneous

A Secret Art Show Inside a Condemned NYC Apartment Building

The show, called Surplus Candy, was the brainchild of street artist Hanksy.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Renewed Art of Embroidered Photographs

Few creative things today are truly new — it's the work that builds on, pushes forward and continues to invent that gets noticed.

Tarpley Hitt|The Academy

Speaking Typography: Letter as Image as Sound

Just as a poet weaves the intent of his poem into its sound and craft, so did Lissitzky, as designer, hope to marry intent with the typography and the design of the book itself. But did he?

Observed|Essays

Selling Shame

Southern California artist Cynthia Petrovic has collected vintage body-shaming advertisements geared toward women.

Observed|Books

These Collages Blur the Lines of Reality

Daniel Gordon is an artist and author living and working in Brooklyn. His work is the subject of three booksand a profile this week on Wired.

John Thackara|Essays

Shoe City vs Sole Rebels

Two radically opposed models of development are being born in Ethiopia at the same time. One is small, local, socially fair, and ecologically respectful. The other takes the globalisation of fashion to a new and more destructive level.