History

Observed|Collections

Flickr Collection of the Week: Damaged Goods

“Damaged Goods” is a collection of photographs in which the scratches, stains and patina are critical components in the gestalt of the image.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Portlandia + Timelessness

No better place to consider what looks timeless now than downtown Portland.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

After the Museum: The Tumblr

To create metamuseum.tumblr.com, a multi-museum, multi-curator Tumblr @MADMuseum, I saw it as a kind of curatorial game: Show Me What You’ve Got.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Inventing the Modern Library

A new exhibition of Henri Labrouste, the French architect who invented the modern library.

Observed|Collections

London Transport Museum Poster Colletion

A wonderful way to spend an hour (or more). The poster collection from the London Transport Museum.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Kicked A Building Lately?

That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Screen: Shooting the Past

Stephen Poliakoff’s Shooting the Past, set in a fictitious photo library, is a film that could haunt you for years.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reintroducing the Tilletts

If you are interested in textile design, mid-century style, or creative partnerships, I would urge you to go visit “The World of D.D. and Leslie Tillett” at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Other Ezra Stoller

No achitect is unfamiliar with Ezra Stoller, the pioneering photographer whose clinical eye defined modernism and shaped our vision of the built world for much of the twentieth century.

Leonard Koren|Books

Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing

An except from Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing by Leonard Koren.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

“I Have Seen the Future”: Designer as Showman

The exhibition ldquo;I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” hits all the high spots of industrial design within a single man’s oeuvre.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dot Supreme

On the enduring power of the simplest shape, from corporations to children’s books.