I wondered how cultural institutions, desperate for attendance, were handling the restrictions forced by the coronavirus pandemic, and took a stroll along New York’s “Museum Mile” on Fifth Avenue.
Melting pot modern (From our Archives)
The 1920s was a creatively explosive period in the realm of design
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/13/19–11/20/19
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Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/06/19–11/12/19
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The leafy modernism of Ilonka Karasz
How a prolific, polymathic artist and designer joined an eye for the sleek with a taste for the pastoral
Handle with care #5
The fifth installment of our web-only column on ceramics and glass.
Melting pot modern
Creating an American style in the 1920s.
More than a treasure box
The Carnegie mansion is still home to what was once known as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, an outpost of the Smithsonian that has now banished its hyphen, flung open its doors, and reinvented itself as a twenty-first-century digitally enhanced experience.
Edward F. Caldwell and Company’s Legacy of Lighting
Although the name of Edward F. Caldwell may be unfamiliar to some, the lighting fixtures made by his eponymous firm grace some of the best known public and private architectural commissions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. Caldwell and his partner, Victor F. von Lossberg, a Russian artist he met while working at Archer …