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Observed|Gallery

The Psychedelic and Grotesque Proto-GIFs of the 19th Century

Richard Balzer has spent the past five years curating an online collection of his phenakistoscopes, praxinoscopes, and zoetropes — "optic toys".

Chris Pullman|Essays

Remembering Alvin Eisenman

Alvin Eisenman received the AIGA Medal in October, 1991. Chris Pullman, a student in Eisenman's class of 1966 — and a member of the faculty ever since — gave these remarks at the event.

Observed|Essays

Design Is One

Opening Friday at the IFC center: Design is One — Lella and Massimo Vignelli.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Freelancer

One of the incidental pleasures of Judith Major’s new book on pioneering architecture critic Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer is the glimpse it gives into the life of a cultural journalist at the turn of the past century.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Artful Mourning

The art of mourning in Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries: a look at post-mortem and memorial photographs and memorabilia.

Ricky Jay|Insights Per Minute

Ricky Jay on Collecting

Ricky Jay is considered one of the world's great sleight of hand artists.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Gallery of Erotic Humor

Mapp Editions has released a digital version of Bohumil Stepan’s Galerie (1968), a surreal collection of collages and drawings about the relationship between the sexes.

Rob Walker|Essays