Shades of Influence: Owen Jones; the Great Exhibition; Mr. Pooter; Pantone; Purple
By Emily King
Born in 1809, the architect Owen Jones came of age at a time when Neoclassicism was in vogue and the preferred color...
By Emily King
Born in 1809, the architect Owen Jones came of age at a time when Neoclassicism was in vogue and the preferred color...
By Laura McLean-Ferris
While I was having emergency dental work recently, someone was committing fraud on my bank account. By the time I went to...
By Mariah Nelson
“Pick a cup,” my father would say to guests when they came by our house for tea. Each guest would study...
By Amy Sherlock
There is a cloud hanging over Tate Modern. Or, more precisely, hanging next to it. It’s a flinty, overcast April day...
By Alex Heminway
Unlike other star ceramists, Hans Coper (1920 –1981) wrote next to nothing about pottery. The exception is a now famous statement published...
By Fionn Meade
It is exactly the uneasy imaginary of becoming American that novelist and essayist James Baldwin took up in his 1959 meditation,...
By Negar Azimi
It’s 1939 or 1940. A young man is dressed in a kimono. His lips are smeared with lipstick and...
By Hilton Als
When I was an art history major at Columbia University in the early nineteen-eighties, I studied with significant art...
By Gemma Holt
Sometimes it takes traveling to the other side of the world to learn about what’s closest to home. Living...
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