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Megan Whitmarsh|Insights Per Minute

Megan Whitmarsh on Originality

Megan Whitmarsh is a Los Angeles based artist who works predominantly in textiles. Although she also creates comic books, paintings, drawings, and stop-action animation, Whitmarsh is best known for her hand-embroidered canvases and soft …

Adam Harrison Levy|Slideshows

Saul Leiter: Remembered

Saul Leiter taught himself to paint, but his father did not approve. These early abstract works, dating from the 1940s, show a remarkably confident use of line, color and composition.

Alexandra Lange|Insights Per Minute

Alexandra Lange on Performance

Alexandra LangeAlexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, and author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities.

Adam Harrison Levy|Designer/Artist Cooking Series

Artist’s Cookbook: Alex Katz

When it comes to food, Alex Katz keeps it simple.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout discusses the early days of blogging, the poetics of theater and what it's like to be a drama critic for The Wall Street Journal.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Graphics of Authority

A look at the police cars that may or may not want to be seen.

Observed|Miscellaneous

New Items in the Design Observer Store

New products listed in the Design Observer store.

Collection of cooked turkey on white background

Adam Harrison Levy|Designer/Artist Cooking Series

Designer’s Cookbook: George Lois

George Lois designs iconic Esquire covers, but you should hear him talk about food.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Art On Campus

A review of the renovated Blaffer Art Museum and James Turrell's latest skyspace, "Twilight Epiphany."

Rick Poynor|Interviews

Collage Culture: Nostalgia, Critique, and the Art of Remixing Modern Life

An interview with David Banash, author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Extraordinary Spanish Art Environments

Jo Farb Hernández spent close to fourteen years surveying the elaborate fanciful worlds, idiosyncratic sculptures and unique visionary creations of 45 self-taught Spanish artists.