Nearly 30 years after his death, Bacon’s lessons in nihilism and obsession retain their power to shock
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: May 27 to June 2
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Farther Afield: Tokyo Clothes
An exhibition in London examines the kimono, past and present
Fjord and Function
The influence of Scandinavian design in America will be examined in a forthcoming exhibition making stops in Milwaukee and Los Angeles
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: May 20 to 26
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Refugee embroidery in Santa Fe
For readers of this magazine, needlework is a familiar medium for sorrow—seen in the stitched weeping willow trees and gravesites of nineteenth-century mourning embroideries
Ceramics Dynamic: Majolica
Delightful, delirious, and often downright strange, majolica
gets a thorough examination in a forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue
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Radical: Italian Design at MFAH
Utopian ideals took center stage at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with the February opening of Radical: Italian Design, 1965-1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection