News
John Portman, the Architect Who Made Modernist Atriums Sci-fi, Dies at 93
With their enormous atria, elaborate fountains, and glass elevators, John Portman's hotels are straight out of a science fiction movie.
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Art
From the Functional to Found, an Artist Couple’s Experiments in Clay
Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.
In Brief
Utah Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Postcards of Nude Paintings in Art Class
Apparently some parents think paintings by Ingres, Modigliani, and Boucher are "pornography."
Art
The West African Roots of a Masquerade Garment in Brazil
A priest of Ifá divination and an art historian discuss the masquerades of Yoruba religion and how they evolved in the Americas.
Books
Andy Warhol's Whimsical Drawings Before He Went Pop
A new book collects Warhol's early hand-drawn illustrations and accompanying texts, reproduced faithfully and filled with wit and whimsy.
Books
How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Film
Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.
Film
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
Art
The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
Art
The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
News
A New Website Profiles Pioneering Female Architects
The recently launched online portal features profiles of 50 women born before 1940 who made significant contributions to architecture in the US.
News
A New Website Profiles Pioneering Female Architects
The recently launched online portal features profiles of 50 women born before 1940 who made significant contributions to architecture in the US.