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Hot Seats
The best seat in the house is debatable in Barbara Pine’s New York apartment.
Overspray
Design historian Norman Hathaway has resurrected the airbrush art movement and four of its masters for a vibrantly illustrated book.
Bidders showed a conservative streak at the design auctions in New York, favoring midcentury work from proven sellers.
The amenable director of the Hayward Gallery discusses the curating process and what architects and artists can learn from each other.
Buy-in rates average 40 percent at a trio of overpopulated and underwhelming auctions.
Architecture
Modern Ruins
MODERN PAINTERS
Bernard Tschumi on his design for the new Acropolis Museum.
MODERN PAINTERS
Disney recently updated its 1950s vision of domestic utopia for the 21st century.
The Blue Room
Eugene Richards spent four years traveling to compile images of abandoned houses.
The U.S. pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes on progressive issues.
Design and Architecture News

Copenhagen Gets Bridge by Eliasson

Sanaa Architect Named Director of Venice Architecture Biennial

The Year in Tall Buildings

Nemesis of Prince of Wales Wins Stirling Prize

The Pavilion Heats Up

Taubman Museum Wins International Architecture Award

Chicago’s Spire Will Get Built, Architect Says

In L.A., Postwar Architecture’s Preservation a Tangled Topic

Towering Gazprom Tower Approved for St. Petersburg

Watts Towers Celebration to Mark Their Survival 50 Years Ago

World Monuments Fund Lists 93 Endangered Sites

Dallas Arts-District Development Put on Hold

Five Pritzker Winners to Help Design French Arts Center

Japan Art Association Honors Zaha Hadid

Empire State Building Murals Restored

Lord Norman Foster Has Designs on the Moon

Dutch Discoveries in New York Harbor

California Architect Proposes Plan for World’s Tallest Building

Westminster Palace Angel Getting a New Head

Contract for Royal Reconstruction Rejected in Berlin

New Atlantic Yards Design Released

Commission Trims Nouvel’s New York Tower

Liverpool Terminal “Honored” as Year’s Worst Project in Britain

Mt. Wilson Observatory Fires Under Control

Step Aside, Big Ben, London to Get Lunar Clock

Firefighters Optimistic that Mt. Wilson Observatory will Survive

California Wildfires Endanger D. H. Burnham-Designed Observatory

Planners Reject Prince Charles-Backed Design as “Twee”

Glasgow’s Lighthouse Cuts Half Its Staff

Shortlist Announced for World Building of the Year

Gropius Buildings in Chicago Headed for Demolition, Despite Protests

Prince Charles Strikes Again

Private Group Saves Last Frank Lloyd Wright Hotel

Chicago Park-Goers Get Too Interactive With Pavilions

Modern Painters Re:Vision Awards
Art+Auction
Art+Design
Our guide tests the waters of the market and offers the wisdom of experts who’ve long navigated design's ever-changing currents.
Adam Lindemann
The financier Adam Lindemann writes the book on collecting design.
Campana Brothers
The Campana brothers have turned down-cycling into design art.
Conversation With James Zemaitis
The head of Sotheby’s 20th-century design department in New York talks about the state of the market.
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Name Dropping
Top 5
Five places to see the best works of the short-lived movement.
The fashion designer and founder of Vista Art and Design reveals objects that get him every time.
The Wright auction house founder selects five can’t-miss contemporary design products.
Culture+Travel
Vasarely’s Victory
Victor Vasarely's nearly forgotten Op-art utopia outside Aix-en-Provence is a charming window into the 1970's—with plenty of scandal thrown in.
The New York Eye
American design may be a bit moribund, but Gotham attracts the talent anyway—from everywhere else. Three kings of New York design point out the best in town and name the future stars.
North Stars
The stunning new Oslo opera house (you can walk on its roof) and its equally gorgeous two-year old Copenhagen neighbor are just the latest chapters in the rich history of Nordic opera.
Keeping the Faith
The sixth generation of the Hermès clan prints art on scarves and believes it’s vanity to be expensive. Can impeccable craftsmanship save civilization as we know it?
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