The current exhibition, “Greek Visual Artists and the Shaping of American Art in the 20th Century”, presented at the Athens Municipal Arts Center until October 30th, highlights the role played by Greek and Greek-American artists – “Greeks of the Diaspora” – in the formation of an American visual language with a global and lasting impact. […]| Greek News Agenda
To wrap up from last time, Ben Shahn has fallen out of favor regardless—and not just because art moved on to abstraction. Nor is it that he refused the past century. That sketch of existentialists approaches the stark, jumbled planes and predominant reddish blue of Analytic Cubism. It just happens to take until the 1950s […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
To pick up from last time, everything about Ben Shahn was serious, least of all The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. No sooner had he completed that series, with twenty-three paintings, but he began another, of an Irish American labor leader convicted of a fatal bombing. The first painting has entered the Whitney Museum and […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
From the tall classical columns, you know this is serious business. You know it, too, from the men in black. The three men stand somberly and rigidly, the shortest man in academic robes. The other two wear black suits with tall black hats. They hold lilies, proclaiming their innocence. Their faces reveal nothing, but something […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
By Jack Meng-Tat Chia Scholars have described the reshaping of Buddhist ideas and practices in relation to Western modernity since the 19th century with| Reading Religion
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
In 1943, Central National Bank sold its slender 17-story headquarters building at 308 Euclid Avenue to the F. W. Woolworth Co., which later demolished the building for a much shorter retail store (now the House of Blues). The bank continued to lease space in the “matchstick” building until it opened its new headquarters in 1949 in five floors of the Midland Building at West Prospect Avenue and West 2nd Street. Central National also acquired property at 509 Euclid near the northwest corner...| Cleveland Historical
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
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Skopje’s architectural landscape is far from modest. It is no surprise that its location in the heart of the Balkans manifested a confluence of various timelines existing adjacent to one another. W…| VOICES
Studio Hagen Hall, an architecture and design firm in London founded by Louis Hagen-Hall, has a talent for creating spaces that are striking yet serene — making them look effortless while also paying meticulous attention to detail. For Pine Heath, a townhome that’s part of a series originally designed by South African architect Ted Levy, Benjamin & Partners in the late 1960s, Hagen Hall brings California mid-century modern to North London’s Hampstead Conservation Area.| Sight Unseen
The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) archive serves as a widely studied reference for modern and contemporary art. In The MoMA Plant Collection, Inge Meijer focuses on the institution’s archive during…| c4 journal
A now eight-year-old tradition at johnpistelli.com has been my annual Bloomsday post. Previous entries include my appreciation of Mina Loy’s extraordinary poem, “Joyce’s Ul…| John Pistelli
The Danish company Louis Poulsen is home to some of the world's most instantly recognizable lighting, designed by the greats. While all distinctively Scandinavian — there’s a certain precision and integrity combined with a playful inventiveness that’s somehow simultaneously cool and warm — these lights also work particularly well in the context of a West Coast golden-hour glow, the interplay of sun and soft shadows. Louis Poulsen's sculptural yet clean aesthetic naturally dovetails wi...| Sight Unseen
Willful desecration is also a denial of love – an attempt to remake the world as though love were no longer a part of it. And that, surely, is the most important characteristic of the postmodern culture: it is a loveless culture, determined to portray the human world as unlovable. The modern stage director who ransacks the works of Mozart is trying to tear the love from the heart of them, so as to confirm his own vision of the world as a place where only pleasure and pain are real.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Revolution has been the slogan and banner for generations of creative idealists. But they seem more concerned with a love of transgression than of life.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to wha…| Suspended Reason
Palm Springs Travel Poster 1970 :: USA :: American Airlines This wonderful midcentury modern image comes from a vintage American Airlines travel poster for sunny Palm Springs, California. Language: English| archives.design
Foundry Univers 1968 :: Paris :: Deberny et Peignot The type specimen booklet for Foundry Univers. While it was released by Deberny et Peignot and distributed in the United States by the American Type Founders, the type family itself was designed by Adrian Frutiger. The concept for the type family was to take advantage of the then new technology of phototypesetting, but it was also released as metal type. Language: English Publisher: American Type Founders (ATF) Designer: Adrian Frutiger| archives.design
