Has the Pandemic Changed the Experience of Encountering Art in Public?
With limited access to indoor galleries and museums, New York’s public art commissions seem more important now than ever.
Arts + Culture
Six Virtual Experiences Worth Getting Lost In
Designers, manufacturers, and curators continue to come up with imaginative solutions for experiencing design—without leaving your home.
An Exhibition in Singapore Challenges the Meaning of Repair
R for Repair shines a spotlight on the throwaway economy by pairing ten local designers with ten broken objects in need of a fresh lease of life.
Art Finds a New Audience When the Exhibition Space is a Model Apartment
West Coast branding agency frenchCALIFORNIA turns a San Francisco penthouse by Marmol Radziner and SOM into an art gallery.
A New Exhibition at Friedman Benda Explores the Split Personalities of Design Objects
Guest curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, Split Personality offers a diverse survey of contemporary design work that prioritizes story-telling over functionality.
A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser's Designs
Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."
Anna Puigjaner on the Social Meaning of Cooking Buckets
The Barcelona-based architect and researcher discusses how her travels in the Casamance, Senegal, illuminated a broader role of cooking buckets.
Melbourne's NGV Triennial Ponders the Distant Past and a Post-Pandemic Future
Artists and designers such as Kengo Kuma, Lee Ufan, and Faye Toogood explore themes of materiality and domesticity in one of the the year's few large-scale art events.
Examining James Wines's Humanistic Approach to Sustainability
A new exhibition at Berlin's Museum for Architectural Drawing presents dozens of the architect-artist's imaginative and often sarcastic drawings.
NYCxDESIGN Announces Not-For-Profit Status
The move sets the stage for an expanded slate of opportunities and partnerships to support the city’s designers.
New York’s R & Company Reimagines a Fair Season That Should Have Been
The Tribeca gallery’s An Affair to Remember exhibition cleverly incorporates three planned fair booth displays canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Justin Garrett Moore on the Work of Artist Alteronce Gumby
The executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission reflects on how a painting forms a personal backdrop to the pandemic and this year's protests for racial justice.
A New Project Repurposes the Plywood of Boarded Up Storefronts
Plywood Protection Project by worthless studios awards materials and grants to five artists in order to transform boarded up storefronts into public art installations
The Clark Art Institute Turns Its 140-Acre Meadow into an Exhibition Site
After many architects left their traces on the museum's buildings, public sculptures by six contemporary artists add poetic gestures to the land.
Commentary: Monumental Changes
Is the movement to topple America’s Confederate statues a path to justice or an act of catharsis?
A Slew of Contemporary Work Reinvigorates Eliot Noyes’s “Frightening Architecture”
A triumph of the Harvard Five, Eliot Noyes’s home now serves as an exhibition space.
Glenn Adamson, Stephen Burks, and Design's Most Ambitious Conversation Series
Since the pandemic started, the duo has been interviewing a broad roster of international figures in architecture and design for gallery Friedman Benda.
What Samara Golden’s Newest Installation Conveys about this Tumultuous Year
Presented at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, the hyperrealistic tableau employs household items, sounds, and visual effects to assess the current state of affairs.
Designing Dance: Electronic Traces the Origins and Legacy of Club Culture
With a focus on EDM's originators and the British context, the Design Museum's exhibition sets itself apart from others on electronic music and design.
Ross Hansen's Objects Span the Playful to the Grotesque
In a new exhibition at Chicago's Volume Gallery, Ross Hansen transposes nature’s excesses to a startling, yet exquisite effect.
