Ceramics and film sets from Design Funzione Arte, an exhibition at MAAM in Grosseto exploring the shared language of Etruscan craftsmanship and contemporary design.
Design Funzione Arte is an exhibition at the Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma (MAAM) in Grosseto that places Etruscan artifacts alongside contemporary design and... Read More
Design Objects
Bowl. Nicholos Homoky. Porcelain, 4 x 4.5 inches, ca. 1982. Photo: PD Rearick.
Nicholas Homoky (born 1950) is a Hungarian-born British ceramic artist known for transforming traditional bowls, teapots, and vessels into sculptural, often playful works that blur... Read More
Art Desk
Sasha Court
Sasha Court is a Halifax, Nova Scotia–based ceramic artist whose intuitive, hand-built stoneware vessels combine sculptural forms with richly layered glazes.
Art History
Kazimir Malevich, Rest (Society in Top Hats), 1908. Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper.
Chatbot: Try drinking water. What do you mean by “trouble concentrating”? Me: I don’t know. I can't explain it. Please search your database for clues.... Read More
John WhitePoem clipping published in The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, 1924. "I Love Her" She smokes. She paints. She powders. She reads La Vie Parisienne. She drinks... Read More
Notes Quotes
DC1919 by Vincenzo De Cotiis
This DC1919 Lounge Chair by Vincenzo De Cotiis features a seat made of iridescent cast aluminum contrasted with a base of solid cast brass.
Pierre Boncompain
Born in Valence, France in 1938, Pierre Boncompain is known for luminous, intensely colored still lifes, nudes and landscapes.
Adrianne Rubenstein, Floating Fruit, 2026.
New York-based, Canadian-born painter and curator Adrianne Rubenstein’s Floating Fruit (2026) depicts a bowl and its contents suspended in midair, as strawberries, grapes, an apple... Read More
Radio Shoestring was a short-lived pirate station calling itself “Eastside Community Radio,” broadcasting from Walthamstow in East London beginning in March 1984. The 12 May... Read More
Deep Cuts
Mary Fedden, 1968
Mary Fedden was a British painter, born in Bristol in 1915 and trained at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. She had wanted to be... Read More
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Lists
Designers Sacha Oré and Irina Borovikova shaped this Moscow apartment around calm, nature, and softly expressive objects. Rounded forms, botanical references, and warm organic materials... Read More
Interiors
A modern reconstruction of the lion-headed helmet worn by Alexander the Great on the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, a late-fourth-century BC marble tomb found in the... Read More
Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer
Mackintosh’s low-back armchair for Kate Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms combines Arts & Crafts construction, Scottish vernacular influence, and sculptural modernity in a design made... Read More
Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910–1911. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gustav Klimt’s The Park, painted between 1910 and 1911, belongs to the quieter side of his late work: not the gold, bodies, and theatrical eroticism... Read More
Fashion Desk
Jewelled gold and silver-gilt mounted guilloché enamel bowenite Gum-Pot - Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, ca.1896-1908. Formed as an apple,... Read More
Bruce Lee Cha Cha Dancing
Bruce Lee was genuinely cha-cha obsessive before he became the martial-arts icon. As a teenager in Hong Kong, he won the 1958 Crown Colony Cha-Cha... Read More
Archival Photos
I don’t read books. That’s not the right thing for me. I stand up. It’s better to move. I hear the thunder. Someone’s angry. This... Read More
Ulyses Razo
Belle Époque apartment in Paris by @bonnefoymarine. Photo by @francoiscoquerel via @whylessisnotmore.
Velazquez girl by Eugene Shadko. 30x24cm. Oil on canvas. 2025. Shown here at 90º
A summary of the world’s leading publications. New York Times: The world is ending. Le Monde: Learn about the 1789 French debt crises in numbers.... Read More
Colleen Barry "Female Nude with Pomeranians" 2026. Shown at 90º
Now showing at Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St.
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
Ingrid Bergman in Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
It reads:I'm going to Capri. To have a little fun, as you said. Museums bore me. You'll have more time for your pilgrimages this way.... Read More
Capote Alphabet
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
Françoise Kirkland by Douglas Kirkland
This photograph shows Douglas Kirkland with his wife, Françoise Kirkland, in Paris. Kirkland was an American photographer whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning... Read More
Since the kiss in the mountains, time is guided on the golden summer of her hands and the ivy swerves. Text by René Char
"Books"
Rowena Cade, Photographer unknown.
This photograph, by an unknown photographer (possibly a friend or colleague on site) shows Rowena Cade being pushed in a wheelbarrow through Minack Theatre late... Read More
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
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.
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...
Important Documents
Designed and made by Wendell Castle
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,... Read More
Anonymous Ensemble Authors
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
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
The Photo Desk
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
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
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
Likely made by Elkay Manufacturing
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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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
Dannik
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