By Evangelos Kotsioris Standing high over Tokyo’s Ginza district, the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower (1970–72), designed by the office of the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, was an architectural marvel. Its two steel-and-concrete towers supported 140 prefabricated living “capsules,” as sleekly and compactly outfitted as sailing cabins, intended as restorative cocoons for commuting businessmen. Kurokawa planned…
With a gentle pull and turn, a flat walnut wood hexagon unfolds into a lamp with an elegantly twisted tyvek paper shade. This sculptural and tactile portable lamp emits a soft, diffused warm white glow and brings a sculptural shape to your home decor. Features of the Twist Hexagon Portable Table Lamp include: Rechargeable USB-C…
With a gentle pull and turn, a flat walnut wood hexagon unfolds into a lamp with an elegantly twisted tyvek paper shade. This sculptural and tactile portable lamp emits a soft, diffused warm white glow and brings a sculptural shape to your home decor. Features of the Twist Hexagon Portable Table Lamp include: Rechargeable USB-C…
With a gentle pull and turn, a flat walnut wood hexagon unfolds into a lamp with an elegantly twisted tyvek paper shade. This sculptural and tactile portable lamp emits a soft, diffused warm white glow and brings a sculptural shape to your home decor. Features of the Twist Hexagon Portable Table Lamp include: Rechargeable USB-C…
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen. With contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Rasmus Wærn Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between the drafting board and the factory, prefabrication continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative design, and its potential is not yet fulfilled. But the mass-produced, factory-made home…
Edited by Salah Hassan Sudanese artist, writer, critic, and cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism. While serving as Sudan’s Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison. During…
Edited by Kai Althoff. With contributions by Rita Kersting, DovBer Naiditch, Yair Oelbaum, Constantin Rothkopf, Robert Storr, and Rein Wolfs. Interview by Laura Hoptman Kai Althoff (German, born 1966) is one of the most consummate—and unpredictable—artists of his generation. A painter and a draftsman, he has experimented since the mid-1990s with combinations of unconventional…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Luis Pérez-Oramas. With contributions by Alexander Alberro, Sergio Chejfec, Estrella de Diego, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters of the first half of the twentieth century, whose work opened up transformational paths for modern art…
Edited by Kynaston McShine. With contributions by Lucy Lippard and others In the summer of 1970, The Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of Conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show…
To look inside this book, click here. By Ana Janevski and Thomas J. Lax. With contributions by Giampaolo Bianconi, Harry CH Choi, Vivian A. Crockett, Danielle Goldman, Elizabeth Gollnick, Adrian Heathfield, Ana Janevski, Martha Joseph, Thomas J. Lax, Victor “Viv” Liu, Jenny Harris, Sharon Hayes, Malik Gaines, Benjamin Piekut, Kristin Poor, Julia Robinson, and…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, and Maria Morris Hambourg. With contributions by Jim Coddington, Constance McCabe, Hanako Murata, Paul Messier, Klaus Pollmeier, Ute Eskildsen, Matthew S. Witkovsky, Olivier Lugon, and Quentin Bajac In 2001, The Museum of Modern Art acquired 341 modernist photographs from…
By Cornelia Butler. Interview with the artist by Bruce Hainley Paul Sietsema is an artist deeply engaged in the act of looking. For his third and newest project, Figure 3 (2008), Sietsema takes as inspiration the ethnographic objects that he has collected from various locations, including Africa, Indo-Asia, and the South Pacific region of…
Edited by Leah Dickerman and Achim Borchardt-Hume. With contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Andrianna Campbell, Hal Foster, Mark Godfrey, Hiroko Ikegami, Branden Joseph, Ed Krcma, Michelle Kuo, Pamela Lee, Emily Liebert, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Kate Nesin, Sarah Roberts, and Catherine Wood Published to accompany a major international retrospective that opened at the Tate Modern,…
To look inside this book, click here. Chosen by the New York Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2018 By Michelle Elligott René d’Harnoncourt, the director of The Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1968, revolutionized the way art exhibitions are conceived and mounted. His genius for installation…
By Philip Yenawine This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. Parents and teachers play a key role in this learning process, encouraging careful, thoughtful looking. In People, author Philip Yenawine, longtime…
By Ron Magliozzi and Edwin Carels, With contributions by the Quay Brothers The Quay Brothers are internationally renowned moving-image artists and designers who, for over thirty years, have been at the vanguard of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action movie making, working in the Eastern European tradition of filmmakers such as Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Švankmajer,…