Arts + Culture

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.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Rubens and the Right

A couple of weeks ago I went up to Cambridge for a symposium on Rubens, hoping to catch up on the latest scholarship and check in with friends in the art history game.

Eric Baker|Today Column

Today, 05.15.10

Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.

Allan Chochinov|Event-Bellagio

Bellagio Design Symposium: Core77 Report

Allan Chochinov of Core77, sums up his experience at the Bellagio Design Symposium, the annual Salone Del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan and being hostage to the whims of a volcano.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Icon Review: Attila

At the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Attila, the applause starts before the curtain rises.

Michelle Hauser|Slideshows

The Leisure of Looking: A Pedestrian View in a High-Speed Era

The current exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography comes from a huge private collection of vernacular group photographs.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Dandies at the Ballpark

What, you ask, did the well-dressed gentleman wear to the ballpark in 1870? The sartorially inclined team outfitter might have turned to the lovely "New York Fashions" lithograph above for inspiration.

Elliott Earls|Essays

The Sentient and the Bag of Meat

In most cases, design education takes place within the larger context of this thing called “art school.” Students can be grouped into one of two categories: the Sentient and the Bag of Meat.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Junior Critics

One of the pleasures of teaching is when your students actually surprise you.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Carolina On... (No, I Just Can't Do It)

Everything cool that has happened in Durham and environs has happened since I left.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Safety and Comfort: A Walk with Paul Davis

Davis has asked me to write the introduction to his latest book. I told him I didn't want to write about the usual stuff. He agreed and suggested we go for a walk instead.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Staggered Profiles

The Whitney has never given up its dreams and now has its eyes on a plot at the foot of the High Line in the Meat Market, with Renzo Piano as designer.