Art
Ettore Sottsass's Candy-Colored Utopian Design
The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future.
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Art
English Translations of Obscure Medieval Texts Go Online
Stanford University's Global Medieval Sourcebook is a new online compendium of English translations for overlooked Middle Ages texts.
Art
The Futile Effort of Differentiating Fine Art from Design
The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing explores the relationship between fine art and design, and how the lines blur between them.
Comics
I Found My Mantra
I wanted a phrase that would inform my life and my art.
Art
Documenting the Disappearance of America's Most Toxic Ghost Town
Starting in 2008, following a devastating tornado, Todd Stewart has photographed the toxic ruins of Picher, Oklahoma, a mining community turned ghost town.
Art
A Crowd-Sourced Sound Map for the Protests of Our Time
Almost 200 recordings of international protests are now archived in an online sound map that spans over two decades.
News
A Major Art Symposium Goes Awry in Mexico City
In late July, a newspaper reported that the 14th edition of Mexico City's revered SITAC contemporary art symposium had been cancelled, but it's more complicated.
In Brief
Sagrada Familia Among Sites Targeted by Barcelona Terrorists
According to court testimony given by one of the suspects in last week's attacks, the cell had originally planned to detonate vans filled with explosives at three crowded sites, including Gaudí's spectacular church.
Film
A Film About Falling in Love and Geeking Out About Modernism
Set in the eponymous Indiana town, Kogonada's Columbus is a film about architecture with an Asian American aesthetic.
Books
Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
New books by Keiler Roberts and Sina Grace share accounts of their ongoing battles with depression and their careers as comic artists.
Art
Alexander Girard, the Designer Who Made American Modernism Less Sterile
In Girard's fantastic retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum, we see how he mitigated the starkness of American Modernism with bold color, earthy materials, and folk art aesthetics.
Art
How to Embed a Shout: A New Generation of Black Artists Contends with Abstraction
A new wave of black abstract artists are exploring ways to push the language of abstraction and still retaining their cultural specificity. And they're not doing it alone.