Can Craft Save America?
A trio of exhibitions seeks to rediscover something about our nation through the work of its makers and artists.
Arts + Culture
A New Book Chronicles the History of Cranbrook Academy of Art
With Eyes Opened includes profiles of 200 artists associated with the influential art school over more than eighty years.
Public Water Presents New York's Complex Drinking Water System in Miniature
Located at the northern entrance to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the newest work by artist Mary Mattingly emulates New York City's watershed.
A Houston Exhibition Reimagines Links Between the Built Environment and Nature
Drawings at the Menil Collection ponder the fanciful, while addressing social unrest and ecological concerns.
David Hammons’ Monument to The Chelsea Piers Rises on the Hudson
The influential artist’s steel tube structure forms a silhouette of the bygone Pier 52, famously known for artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1975 intervention.
4 Standout National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Responding to the theme "How will we live together?" national pavilions examine the local and global factors that produce unique housing patterns.
These Artists Transformed Salvaged Plywood into Public Art
Last year, the New York–based nonprofit worthless studios announced the winners of its Plywood Protection Project. This summer, the five installations are being unveiled across the city.
New York’s Museum of Arts and Design Puts Craft Front and Center
Uncovering historical works from its permanent collection, the museum seeks to capture the zeitgeist of the contemporary craft revival.
Future100 Report: Metropolis Highlights the Diverse Future of A&D
The Future100 Report gives an overview of these promising young designers: where they come from, what and where they study, and who mentors them.
ASID Announces Winners and Scholars of the Ones to Watch Program
The annual award aims to foster an inclusive design community by recognizing and supporting rising designers from underrepresented groups.
NYCxDESIGN’s Emerging Designer Residency Brings Craft to Commercial Retail
In partnership with Arts Thread, the 2021 designers-in-residence transform a storefront in The Shops at Hudson Yards.
Virginia San Fratello on Wandering in the Age of Covid
The architect-designer explicates the connections between wandering around Colorado's San Luis Valley and her experiments in 3D printing.
Berlin's Architectural Transition to Postmodernism Gets an Overdue Examination
The Berlinische Galerie's exhibition Anything Goes? recounts how a global, contradictory Postmodernism took root on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.
A New Exhibition Makes Motherhood Visible Through Design
Organized by Egg Collective and Tealia Ellis Ritter, Designing Women III: MOTHER brings together 28 artists and designers—all of them mothers.
From Victorian Gardens to Corporate Biophilia, Nature Inside Unearths a History of Interior Plantings
Despite differences in motivation, context, and aims, Penny Sparke shows that bringing flora inside stands as a token of unspoiled nature, a reminder of what’s gone.
Post-Apocalyptic Hope Springs from Montreal Design Collaboration
FICTIONS, an immersive virtual exhibition put on by the Canadian Creators Collective, invites viewers to question the lines between art and design through an imagined future of the northern city.
Strelka Institute's Three-Year Research Agenda Culminates with The New Normal
Headed up by Benjamin H. Bratton, the research rubric and yearbook-like release collate "fungible platforms" that investigate data's role in global spatial restructuring.
Q&A: Elissa Black, the Newly Appointed Head of NYCxDESIGN, Knows New York City Will Bounce Back
After roles at the Van Alen Institute and the Guggenheim Museum, this lawyer and advocate for design takes over NYCxDESIGN as executive director.
An Exhibition in Helsinki Places Iittala at the Center of Nordic Modernism
Helsinki's Design Museum celebrates the glassworks' 140-year history through a multifaceted exhibition that reflects the evolution of Finnish culture.
Boasting New Exhibitions and a Renovation, the National Building Museum Reopens Today
New displays include a showcase of MASS Design Group's socially-oriented work and the Gun Violence Memorial Project.
