Category: Reviews

Dominique Browning|Reviews

Loose Canon

Review of "Why Design Now?" Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, New York. Through January 9, 2011.

Ernest Beck|Reviews

New Meaning at ICFF

A review of the 2010 International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

The Maddening, Rewarding World of Design People

Most design people I know — don’t feel guilt over knowing what is priceless and what is junk. The film Please Give also thinks they know what it is worth.

Steven Heller|Reviews

Home Is the Sailor, Home from the Sea

In 1943, Margaret Wise Brown, the children’s book author signed a contract with Harper & Brothers to publish The Fathers Are Coming Home.

Mark Dery|Reviews

Bunker of Broken Dreams

Review of "Landscapes of Quarantine," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. March 9–April 17, 2010.

Avinash Rajagopal|Reviews

The Nano Effect on Urban India

Review of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibition of the Tata Nano, 2010.

Julie Lasky|Reviews

Sweating the Small Stuff

Review of TED 2010 conference, "What the World Needs Now," Long Beach, California, February 9–13.

Mark Lamster|Reviews

What Am I Doing Here? Tall Buildings and High Anxiety in Las Vegas

I spent three days in a new entertainment complex, CityCenter, in Las Vegas. What follows is a diary of my experience in that time.

Mark Lamster|Reviews

Big Book, Small Reward

Among the trends I’d like to see disappear in this new decade is the trend of obscenely fat monographs.

Mark Lamster|Reviews

Majority Report

Review of Design with the Other 90%: Cities

Susan Morris|Reviews

Italian Art in the Hudson Valley

Perhaps the biggest surprise of Magazzino Italian Art, the museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States, is that it exists in the …

Julie Lasky|Reviews

When Worlds Collide

Report on TEDGlobal 2009, held July 21–24 in Oxford, England.