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Mark Lamster|Essays

Rubens for the Holidays

Snow is falling hard on the Eastern Seaboard. It's cold out there. A good weekend to stay in before a fire with your warm drink of choice and a good book.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Good Night Old Friend: ID Magazine Closes After 55 Years

After 55 years, ID Magazine, the grand dame of American design publishing, has shuttered. It's a terrible blow to the design world, and especially to those of us in the extended ID family — I was a contributing editor, and wrote for …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Talking Rubens with Leonard Lopate

I'll be appearing on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show this afternoon.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Playing House

The three living rooms on Modern Family are used as a structuring device, luing us into the character of each respective family.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In a F.O.G.

I am thinking about adding films to my undergraduate class at NYU, namely Sketches of Frank Gehry.

Steven Heller|Essays

Harsh Words from T.M. Cleland

Design criticism may be comparatively new, but critical designers are not.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Where Have All the Type Geeks Gone?

Set in Helvetica, the title for Up In the Air looks plain wrong.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Master of Shadows: A Telegraph Book of the Year

The distinguished British historian Michael Burleigh has named Master of Shadows a Book of the Year in the Telegraph.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

DoubleX: Kid Made Modern Reviewed

My review for Todd Oldham's Kid Made Modern for DoubleX is much less happy happy, joy joy than most of the other coverage.

Martha Scotford|Slideshows

Ulysses: Fast Track to 1934 Best Seller

The first United States publishing of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Mark Lamster|Essays

"Compelling" & "Important": The L.A. Times Praises Master of Shadows

Good book reviews are rarities to be prized in these days of shuttered newspapers and diminished book coverage. By good I don't simply mean positive.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Dankuwel Antwerpen!

This is a good week to be thankful and I am especially grateful to everyone who made the launch of De meester van de schaduw in Antwerp such a success.