When Estrid Ericson founded the Stockholm design emporium Svenskt Tenn in 1924, her attitude toward domestic life was simple: one’s home should be modern yet comfortable, an ever-evolving yet thoughtful sanctuary with the human in focus. Ericson and longtime collaborator Josef Frank’s sly rejection of...
Fans of the wonderfully intricate creations from Omer Arbel’s lighting studio-lab Bocci may delight even further in his architecture. Last year, the Canada-based polymath debuted a meticulously crafted farmland house in British Columbia covered in a series of verdant berms, creating a wave-like expanse as...
CULTURE CLUB On Oct. 28, leaders of the Studio Museum in Harlem welcomed more than 700 artists, cultural luminaries, civic leaders, philanthropists, and prominent New Yorkers to the...
The MoMA Design Store launches a Luna Luna–inspired art and accessories collection. The MoMA Design Store has launched a product collection inspired by the 1987 amusement park, Luna Luna, which featured installations by artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The collection, released ahead of the...
Just finished the second edition of Cantiere Aperto, an exhibition of contemporary art, music, and poetry promoted by the No Man's Land Foundation, curated by Zerynthia, Associazione per l'Arte Contemporanea OdV, in collaboration with Aware, Bellezza Resistenza, and the patronage of the Municipality of Loreto...
Katalin Ladik is a pioneer in experimental poetry, sound and performance art. Referred to as the Yoko Ono of the Balkans, Ladik places language at the heart of her practice. Since the 1960s, she has used her body as both medium and material. Ooooooooo-pus is...
Jason Kowalski is one of today’s most visually perceptive and technically astute painters of America’s mid-20th century built landscape. His talent is far more than just technical. His painting possesses an authentic sensitivity to the people and time of the places that are his subjects...
CULTURE CLUB On Oct. 21, the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Foundation held its annual benefit at Christie’s New York in Rockefeller plaza. During the event, the...
The, ahem, “erection” of a phallic Gaetano Pesce sculpture is roiling Neapolitans. A new public sculpture by the late Gaetano Pesce, titled Tu si’ na cosa grande, has stirred controversy in Naples due to its phallic form. Inspired by the commedia dell’arte figure Pulcinella, the 39-foot-tall...
FASHION This year, Rachel Scott, Willy Chavarria, Raul Lopez, and Henry Zankov were honored as the American Designers of the Year with additional honors going to Erykah Badu, Annie Leibovitz, and more. ...