“At this point I feel a little guilty when people want to buy it,” the artist Eva Hesse told an interviewer in 1970, asked about the notorious instability of her sculpture. “I think they know but I want to write them a letter and say it’s not going to last.” The interview took place just months before her death from a brain tumor at the age of read »
Antarctica is unlike other continents. Winter temperatures can drop below -125°F, the coldest on the planet, and gale winds often exceed 150 miles per hour. During those sunless months, the continent can double in size as surrounding water freezes. Equally important, nobody owns Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty does not recognize sovereign read »
For three weeks in 1968, Stockholm’s Moderna Museet was turned over to children. Emptied of sculptures and paintings, the modern art museum was recast as a playground, complete with climbing ropes and jungle gyms. There were also tools and materials to make stuff, as well as costumes and carnival masks bearing the faces of world leaders read »
Wayne Pierce’s classic collection of vintage Harley-Davidsons rolls up for sale. read »
Wayne Pierce’s classic collection of vintage Harley-Davidsons rolls up for sale. read »
Celebrated as a politician and orator, John F. Kennedy has seldom been recognized as an industrial designer. Yet one of his most visible legacies – more regularly featured on the evening news than any of his policies or speeches – is his 1962 collaboration with Raymond Loewy on the Presidential airplane known as Air Force One. Loewy was already read »
“It’s sheer black magic – and it ends that athletic nuisance in viewing TV.” With these thirteen words, Zenith introduced Lazy Bones, the world’s first remote control, in a full-page Time Magazine ad sixty-three years ago. Since that time, remotes have become both pervasive and invisible: nondescript switchboards operating some of the most read »
Forty-four percent of Americans prefer the color blue. Sixty-four percent like traditional art more than modern. Eighty-eight percent prefer pictures that show outdoor scenes, in which wild animals such as deer are preferable domestic cats by twenty-four percentage points. Humans should be historical figures or ordinary people, depicted fully read »