History
Mid-Century Modernism’s Racial History
What do we know about the history of these designs? Who was buying this furniture when modernism was new, and why?
Eero Saarinen
Art
How John Deere and Eero Saarinen Inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's Largest Painting
The Saarinen-designed John Deere headquarters prompted O’Keeffe to create the monumental Sky Above Clouds IV in her Ghost Ranch garage.
Art
In an Indiana Town, a Treasure Trove of Modernist Design
"Exhibit Columbus" celebrates the legacies of the architects and designers who filled the town with private and civic works before going on to be some of Modernism's biggest names.
Books
See the Smithsonian Archive's Collection of Artists' Handwritten Letters
Whatever skeptics may say about the pseudoscience of graphology (handwriting analysis), it’s hard to deny that handwriting expresses feeling and style — especially, in many cases, when it’s the handwriting of an artist. Georgia O’Keeffe’s bold, squiggly lines and lack of punctuation ignored conventi
Books
The Origins of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in a One-Legged Chair
When the TWA Flight Center opened in 1962 at New York's JFK Airport, its swooping form seemed to embody flight itself, with its two white wings rising from the tarmac.
Art
How Public Tours Helped Save NYC's Most Futuristic Air Terminal
Closed in 2001 with TWA's absorption by American Airlines, the TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen at JFK has been vacant ever since.
Art
The Illustrated Correspondence of Artists
Before people were dropping GIFs into Gmail, letter writers were adding illustrations for that emotional or contextual punch.
News
Frank Gehry to Design New Facebook Campus
Facebook is building an extension of its campus in Silicon Valley, and, in a signal that it it is a Company to Be Taken Seriously, it has tapped renowned architect Frank Gehry to design the new building.
News
Cranbrook Museum of Art Re-Opens
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN — In the middle of the lush suburban academic oasis of the 319-acre Cranbrook educational community sits the Cranbrook Museum of Art, which re-opened last Friday November 11 after a two-year $22 million expansion and renovation.
Art
Office Space: The Conceptual Art Show?
In 2011, the American Dream has deteriorated to looking like an empty office space with abandoned cubicles, lone water fountains and abandoned family photographs of the past employees. On two floors of the midtown Manhattan Lipstick Building, and only an elevator ride away from Bernie Madoff's old o