04.27.21
EDITORS’ LIST
Jill and Monica share their May picks, including a new Gaetano Pesce book, an Instagram-worthy salad dressing, the rise of the glamour toilet, and more.
11.06.20
Q+A
Alteronce Gumby’s Shatteringly Optimistic Glass and Acrylic Paintings
With society’s focus on color, and especially the ways it has historically been used to label, oppress, or divide — Black and white, red and blue —
Alteronce Gumby’s glass and acrylic paintings are multifaceted, glimmering beacons that propose a more nuanced perception of hue. Using foraged clear glass which the artist paints and shatters into jigsaw puzzle-sized pieces, Gumby’s latest body of work captures a hopefulness for the future — that what is broken can be put back together, for a result perhaps even more brilliant than before.
09.06.18
Up and Coming
Suprematist-Inspired Vases and Lights by An Emerging Ukrainian Design Studio
Over the past few years, we've had many designers cite the Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich as an influence — but never before did those designers actually hail from Malevich's hometown of Kiev, Ukraine. "When you live and work in the city where Malevich was born, studied art, and taught at the Art Academy, and when you even have a workshop on the street that bears his name, it’s only a matter of time until his presence starts to inspire your creation," say Arkady Vartanov and Kateryna Sokolova of NOOM, a new, Kiev-based studio launching its first collection of Malevich-inspired vases and lighting at this weekend's Maison & Objet.
04.07.18
Saturday Selects
Week of April 2, 2018
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: sneak peeks from the upcoming Milan Furniture Fair, the Italian 3D rendering studio that's absolutely killing it, and the best salon-style art wall we’ve seen in recent memory.
08.22.16
Excerpt: Book
Two Lost Donald Judd Interviews, Part I: On Cor-Ten Steel and the Scourge of Handiwork
Earlier this summer, when we happened to come across not one but two vibrant, late-’80s interviews with Donald Judd in the same week, we decided it was fate telling us to designate today Judd day here on the site, where we’d excerpt text and photos from both. The first interview we’re posting today comes from Donald Judd Cor-Ten, the 72-page volume that accompanied a David Zwirner exhibition of the same name last winter. Here he speaks with curator and art critic Claudia Jolles about his friendship with Richard Serra, his aversion to public commissions, and why we should never refer to his furniture as art.
07.27.16
Up and Coming
A Bauhaus-Inspired Artist Makes Color Her Primary Medium
The paintings and wall-based textiles of New York–based Senem Oezdogan are like a Venn diagram where Bauhaus and Suprematism meet — almost as if Anni Albers and Kazimir Malevich were to have a baby. Her fiber-based geometric studies — made by wrapping wood panels in natural rope, punctuated by cotton floss color blocks — are deft executions of straight lines and woven shapes that tease the eye yet retain the softness of a tapestry.
11.19.15
8 Things
Robert Storey, Set Designer for Kenzo, Nike, and More
What really interests Storey is creating immersive environments. “A spatial design work can exist in an image and it’s great for people to experience it that way,” but it’s not the same as being there. The temporariness is an essential part of the experience. Here are 8 of the London set designer's most lasting inspirations.
02.10.14
Sighted
Tauba Auerbach’s Inspirations, on The T Magazine Blog
One of these days, our repeated attempts to worm our way into the New York studio of the very private, very busy, very genius artist Tauba Auerbach will succeed. But in the meantime, we were pleased to see a particularly Sight Unseen-y feature on her posted last week on T Magazine's blog, penned by our friend Ken Miller for his ongoing "Under the Influence" column. It's basically an 8 Things teasing out the people, places, and objects that are currently inspiring her work, of which Miller writes on the site: "Reminiscent of the 1960s Op Art movement, especially the British painter Bridget Riley, Auerbach’s hypnotic paintings, sculptures, books and prints reflect abstraction, Minimalism and even Pop, with a meticulous attention to craft. She creates bright, vivid color-fields through complex patterning, making sophisticated pieces that feel enticingly simple." Check out four of Auerbach's current obsessions after the jump.