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Arts + Culture
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.
Q&A: Mariana Pestana Revisits Empathy at the 2020 Istanbul Design Biennial
The program of virtual and public interventions assembles a wide range of projects that seek to foster a symbiotic rapport between objects, humans, and nature.
An ODE to NYC Pops Up Around the City
Launched by NYCxDesign, a series of posters on display around the five boroughs celebrate the city's resilience in the face of uncertainty.
Sanford Biggers Uses Traditional Quilting to Issue a New Message
The artist engages with American lore in the exhibition Codeswitch at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Noteworthy: Artist Shinique Smith on Skins
Los Angeles–based visual artist discusses the surface as it relates to painting and assemblage.
The Surface May Not Be As It Appears
Investigations by architects and scientists may cause us to reconsider two familiar surface qualities: opacity and porosity.
Ahree Lee Highlights How Women Pioneered Weaving and Early Computing
With a virtual exhibition at USC Pacific Asia Museum, the artist connects jacquard weaving with computer programming and the lives of the women behind both.
Experiments in 3-D Printing Yield Iridescent Fashion
A dress by threeASFOUR consists of tiny spherical cells made of photopolymers that refract light, creating an iridescent effect.
In Defense of Decoration
After years of denigration, decoration deserves to be celebrated for what it is, rather than dismissed for what it isn’t.
NYCxDesign Announces a Podcast hosted by Debbie Millman
Called The Mic, the new venture will feature stories solicited from New York’s design community.
