During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a [...]
The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten a[...]
"Hans Haacke 1967" documents the recreation in 2011 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center of a Haacke solo show held at MIT in 1967. Archival photographs from the original installations are included in the catalogue, as is the introductory essay to Haacke's famously cancelled solo exhibition planned fo[...]
The moment Kate Middleton stepped in front of the camera with her then fianc Prince William to announce their engagement, a style icon was born. The electric blue Issa dress she wore on that day sold out in just 24 hours and sparked an international trend in "little blue dresses." Classic and ladyli[...]
In little more than a year, Kate Middleton, aka Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, has become one of the biggest British style icons. Her elegant look has created a huge boost in sales for the shops and designers whose clothes she favours. This guide to Kate's style celebrates her unique, ladylike[...]