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Recognition for a visionary designer
Recently, Steven Heller, one of our longest-running and most beloved contributors -- certainly our most prolific -- traveled to the White House to accept the Design Mind Award from the Cooper-Hewitt,...
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Art you can experience
Last week, "Carsten Höller: Experience," the New Museum's mid-career survey of the 50-year-old German artist, opened to the public. Among the highlights: an ambling mirrored carousel with swings; an...
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The powerful graphics of OWS
Last week I visited Zuccotti Park, the shaky seat of Occupy Wall Street. It was Thursday, the two-month anniversary of the Lower Manhattan encampment, and although the NYPD raided it earlier in the...
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Art that fought the Soviet Union
[caption id="attachment_231193" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Warning symbols by František Stárek in "Vokno" magazine, c. 1985"][/caption]In Russian, samizdat literally means...
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Advice from the original “Mad Man”
George Lois doesn’t need advice. But the designer for whom “legendary ad man” is practically a Homeric epithet has loads to share in "Damn Good Advice (for People With Talent!),"a slim, fast-paced...
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The right cover for “Lolita”
Among the problems Nabokov’s "Lolita" poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot ― just...
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Secrets of the New Yorker cover
Françoise Mouly, the New Yorker’s art editor since 1993, doesn’t have normal relationships with the artists who draw the magazine's covers. “Think of me as your priest,” she told one of them. Mouly,...
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Pinstripe legacy
When the New York Yankees’ historic 1923 home in the Bronx was torn down to make way for a new, luxury-box-stuffed stadium, it seemed as though the House That Ruth Built would be nothing but a memory....
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A former NYT art director talks about his gig at a sex rag, his recent award and his design advice for the Obamas
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An exhibition of a German artist's work involves a sensory-deprivation pool and a three-story steel slide
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On the movement's two-month anniversary, I check out the latest set of eye-popping posters
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A new exhibition features revolutionary Czech prints from the Cold War era
View ArticleAdvice from the original "Mad Man"
In a new book, George Lois offers smart tips, and explains why he sees the AMC show as a personal insult
View ArticleThe right cover for "Lolita"
After years of soft-core designs, a book collects 60 new versions that do justice to the novel's dark complexities
View ArticleSecrets of the New Yorker cover
The venerable magazine's art editor talks about her choices -- and which cartoons were too provocative for print
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