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Minimalisms

Posted inBooks

A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things

by Layla Fassa May 31, 2020June 8, 2020

In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”

Posted inArt

Why Did the Guggenheim Decommission a Donald Judd?

Avatar photo by Peter Karol May 31, 2020June 3, 2020

The Guggenheim recently repurposed the term, “decommissioning,” to designate works in its permanent collection that it has “deemed to be non-viable.”

Posted inFilm

Minimalism Takes Flight

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 31, 2020May 30, 2020

Within the many intersections between cinema and minimalism, there’s a fascinating thread of nonfiction filmmakers depicting air travel.

Posted inArt

The Hacker Aesthetic of Minimalist Code

Avatar photo by Daniel Temkin May 31, 2020May 31, 2020

Ask most programmers about minimalist programming and they invoke the word elegance, yet working with extreme code minimalism often means exposing the chaotic underside of our engagement with logic.

Posted inArt

How Normie Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic Took Over Contemporary Design

Avatar photo by Kate Wagner May 31, 2020September 10, 2021

An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily.

Posted inArt

Getting to Noh: Myths of Japanese Minimalism

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson May 31, 2020June 21, 2020

The stereotype of Japan as a “less-is-more” kind of country is, in fact, quite misleading.

Posted inPodcast

Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 31, 2020April 13, 2022

Kyle Chayka’s new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, probes the corporate world’s love of minimalist design and what it might mean.

Posted inArt

Sunday Edition, Minimalisms: ⬜ From Daitokuji to Normie Modernism ⬛

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 31, 2020June 20, 2020

(cover image via Flickr.com/carlos78mx) This week, we explore the notion that less is more as Minimalisms, yes, plural, is the focus of this Sunday Edition. While most people may associate the term “Minimalism” to the modern art movement that originated in 1960s New York, the history of the design tendency for less is more global […]

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