Arts + Culture

The Editors|Essays

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters From the Archive: Christina Tosi

Debbie talks with pastry chef and Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi about her career and long apprenticeship.

Steven Heller|Interviews

The Plot Against America: Prop Story Redux

If you watch the six part HBO adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America, which premiered on March 16, please keep your eye on the props.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Talking Rubens with Leonard Lopate

I'll be appearing on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show this afternoon.

Sharon Olds|Poetry

"Q"

Q, a poem by Sharon Olds.

Michael Erard|Essays

Notes on Being Born on Soil

At times you hear stories about patriots in exile who want their children to be born in the motherland and supplement by putting dirt from said place under a woman who is giving birth.

Jane Margolies|Projects

St. Augustine School Chicken Project

Report on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.

Eve M. Kahn|Reviews

Green Sleeves

Review of “Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, November 20, 2009 - February 20, 2010.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Master of Shadows: A Telegraph Book of the Year

The distinguished British historian Michael Burleigh has named Master of Shadows a Book of the Year in the Telegraph.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dumbing Down DIY

DIY Anni Albers Strainer and Paper Clips Jewelry Kit is dumbing down the DIY movement.

Julie Lasky|Projects

CO2 CUBES

Description of CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change, a multimedia installation created for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties (COP-15), held in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Jennifer Ehrenberg|Projects

Chicago Welcomes You

On designing a resettlement process for Burmese immigrants in Chicago.