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, …
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Fran Lebowitz: Now. Then. Young. Stunning.
Preface: I discovered W through a designer friend, Bill McCreight, in New York in the early 70s and I’ve been …
Photographer, Berenice Abbott was born 116 years ago today
Photography helps people to see. Those famous words were spoken by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). If you are as inspired by them …
Dude, the Lost Wireman
Throughout the 1960s, Dude’s alarm clock rang at 4:00 a.m.—Saturdays, Sundays, holidays included. An hour or so later he was …
Demme won, Material Culture won, we won
I wrote a short while back about Material Culture’s weekend of auctions dedicated solely to the superb, self-taught art collection of …
