There was darkness all around me. And then someone took me by the hand. There was brightness too. The light dazzled me. I made every... Read More
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Photo by Max Vadukul
An 1980s photograph by Max Vadukul for Yohji Yamamoto speaks to a creative relationship that still endures. Max attended the Women’s Spring Summer 2024 show... Read More
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I’m young. I might have forgotten the best and deepest things. I look like a good fresh memory. My mind is dying. You could give... Read More
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Ulyses Razo





In a bookshop this evening, I heard an author’s interview. An older woman, slightly out of breath, filled the room with her expressive and nervous... Read More

She shifts continuously in her seat. Her hair is orange in the sun, and dried out. Red, yellow and blue of America in the 90s, or of... Read More

Françoise Kirkland by Douglas Kirkland
The photograph shows Douglas Kirkland with his wife, Françoise Kirkland, in Paris. Douglas Kirkland was an American photographer whose career spanned more than six decades,... Read More
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Since the kiss in the mountains, time is guided on the golden summer of her hands and the ivy swerves. Text by René Char
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Rowena Cade, Photographer unknown.
In this photograph by an unknown photographer, possibly a friend or colleague on site, we see Rowena Cade being pushed in a wheelbarrow through Minack... Read More
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THE ONLY PEOPLE FOR ME ARE THE MAD ONES, THE ONES WHO ARE MAD TO LIVE, MAD TO TALK, MAD TO BE SAVED, DESIROUS OF... Read More
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Moulded leather bag by LEMAIRE
The Carlos Bag was a collaboration between Sarah-Linh Tran, co-artistic director of LEMAIRE and Chilean artist and craftsman Carlos Peñafiel.
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The Good Life, photographed by @JohnnyDufort and styled by @lottavolkova For Middle Plane 11 Starring @teachherhowtohun1 Makeup Artist @thomasdekluyver Hair Stylist @cyndiaharvey Casting Director: @julialangecasting Production: @voile.studio @dobedorepresents
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Cy Twombly's Iron Curtain at the Vienna State Opera, 2010-11. Since 1998, the series
'Iron Curtain, conceived by @museuminprogress, has been transforming the safety curtain of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since...
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Now showing at "Art of Noise" at Cooper Hewitt. Stereo Chest, 1973; Designed and made by Wendell Castle (American, 1932-2018); Stack-laminated and carved walnut, leather, metal, rubber, plastic, electronic components.
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Design Objects

Photo by Glen Luchford for 10 Corso Como Gallery Milan. Image via Modem.
A new exhibition at 10 Corso Como Gallery in Milan, “Glen Luchford. Atlas”, runs until 23 December 2025 and is a site-specific show designed by... Read More
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Lovers In New York. Weegee.
Weegee’s photograph of a couple kissing in the darkened cinema captures a fleeting intimacy amid the anonymity of the crowd. Lit only by the projector’s... Read More
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Optimism! Laughs! Force yourself into good spirits! Drink a feeling of confidence and of being alive and be drunk always! Text by John White



Photo by Eva Besnyö, “The Wannsee Lido, Berlin, 1931”. Colorized.
Eva Besnyö, though widely recognized for her striking photography of interwar Berlin and Amsterdam, is less often noted as a pivotal figure in the Dutch... Read More
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Puiforcat for Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread’s collaboration with Puiforcat turned the creases and ridges of solid silver tableware in a way that reminds you of something like corrugated cardboard,... Read More
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Design Objects


Susan Meiselas, Dee, JoJo. Frankie and Lisa after school on Prince Street. Little Italy, New York City, USA, 1976
When Susan Meiselas made Prince Street, Little Italy in 1976, she was teaching photography workshops on the side to support her early projects. Few know... Read More
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The Photo Desk

Research sketches of different versions of the Fauteuil Grand Confort. Collection Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand.


Fabric pendant lamp by Gunnar Eklöf, 1940.
Gunnar Eklöf (1909–1963) was a Swedish architect and furniture designer. He worked extensively with interiors for hospitals, schools, and civic spaces, where design was treated... Read More
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Design Objects


John Waters Senior, C-R-A-Z-Y, 1991. Collection of John Waters.
In 1994, filmmaker John Waters unwrapped an unusual Christmas gift from his father: a drawing hastily made after discovering how much his son had spent... Read More







Morandi’s Objects by Joel Meyerowitz via @editions.mag via @hazz_journal
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German silver double-bowl undermount sink removed from a house in Chicago and likely made by Elkay Manufacturing circa 1920 in the Chicago area.
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Design Objects
Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non... Read More
The way human beings speak is so heartbreaking to me—we never sound the way we want to sound. We’re always stopping ourselves in mid–sentence because... Read More
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Her old gold sweater’s sleeves were rolled up above her elbows, with another of gray denim tied around her waist, with blue pants and black... Read More

Walking down the street, in a kind of fog produced by the sun. At the train station, a Turkish man with his sleeves rolled up... Read More