Artists: Learn to better protect your work. Join a no-fee clinic from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
If you’re involved in creating artistic works of any kind, here’s an invitation from GBCA to make note of. To attend, …
Design
Attention Designer Types: MyFonts.com has deeply discounted the Artegra Sans family.
It’s a simple truth: I love fonts. A font can do a lot of heavy lifting. The right font, in …
A Wienermobile, Old Number 7, is headed to a museum as an interactive exhibit for kids. I’m glad.
The days of taking the 1952 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile—known as Old Number 7— for a ride are over. The sculpture …
The designer of the single most identifiable sign of the cold war—and my childhood—has died.
In the 1960s, they seemed to be everywhere. Churches, department stores, apartment buildings, schools, firehouses, libraries, and telephone switching facilities …
NYC’s Grand Central Terminal has a new website. First question? “How many approvals did *that* take?”
They also introduced a new logo. But first, the news by way of an email that I received this afternoon: …
My fascination with type began with the publication U&lc. There may be a new kid on the block.
In the early 70s, I was in the waiting room of Modernage, one of the hundreds of photo duplication houses in …
A Marian Ruth Agree sculpture comes to live with us. The subject is dark and the piece, powerful.
Marian Ruth Agree was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922. The daughter of William and Dora Bailies and wife of Philip …
Discover a structure: Architecture and Design Month in New York City, October 2017
Archtober (ärk’tôbər), New York City’s annual Architecture and Design Month, is now in its seventh year! For 2017, the festival …
Christie’s: “Everyone from Tom Hanks to Lady Gaga is rediscovering the beauty of manual typewriters.”
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, …
Review of Park Lane Hotel: Luxury, Service, and the most extraordinary view in NYC.
There are only a handful of hotels in Manhattan that have completely unobstructed views of Central Park. The special ones …
Spring 2017: Frank Gehry is teaching an online MasterClass in design & architecture & his creative process
When Jacob and I bought a condo in Baltimore a couple of years ago, the fact that it was in a …
Jane Fonda and long-time, man-friend list their contemporary in Trousdale Estates. $12.9 Mil.
1575 Carla Ridge is in one of Beverly Hills’ toniest sections and has two of the toniest owners around: Fonda and music …
Warhol, a red crayon, and a Brillo Box (3¢ off) come together in a smart, new documentary from HBO.
In 1968 Lisanne Skyler’s father purchased one of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes for $1,000. 40 years later that same Brillo Box (3¢ …
Jobs are available in Baltimore’s arts community. These are most some of the most recent listings.
JobsPlus presents a listing of all the latest opportunities in the Greater Baltimore cultural community. The listing includes job offers, internships, …
NYC. State-of-the-art, Second Avenue subway stations feature awe-inspiring installations of public art.
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled the largest permanent public art installation in New York State history in …
Merry Commerce to you, er uh, Christmas. Merry Christmas…
Nothing says, “Happy Holidays” quite like a Hoover! Click through the slideshow to revisit the uncool side of Christmas.
It’s ominous, massive, and startlingly thought provoking. It’s at The Hirshhorn. Meet the artist.
Jacob and I encountered Basualdo’s installation, The End of Ending, a few months ago. Winding our way around it was a …
If you like ’em big, this one’s for you. David Hockney’s “A Bigger Book” from Taschen.
David Hockney. A Bigger Book Edition of 9,000 Hardcover, 50 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in.), 498 pages, 13 …
A million years ago and a million miles away, I received business cards printed on orange stock.
I joined McCormick-Armstrong Advertising Agency in Wichita, Kansas in the early 1980s. The agency was a subsidiary of McCormick-Armstrong printers on …