The films of Distance Noguchi show the empty museum’s famous sculpture garden faintly stirred by the wind, the gentle splash of a fountain, or the chance arrival of a bird.
Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson is currently a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and the editor-at-large of The Magazine Antiques. A curator and theorist who works across the fields of design, craft, and contemporary art, he was also a former director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. His publications include Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007).
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Getting to Noh: Myths of Japanese Minimalism
The stereotype of Japan as a “less-is-more” kind of country is, in fact, quite misleading.
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A Young Designer’s Pulpy and Surprisingly Personal Furniture
Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.
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Katherine Westphal, Fiber Art Pioneer, Dies at 99
In a career that kept her on the move for many years, Westphal was endlessly curious and creative, working in ceramics, quilting, fiber, Xerox, and wearable art.
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A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce
The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.
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The Seamless Weaving of Fine Arts with Crafts
Anissa Mack uses the county craft fair as inspiration, context, and content.
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Weaving Together the Story of a Forgotten Pop Artist and Her Rugs
In the annals of overlooked artists, Dorothy Grebenak is an extreme case.