Interview

The Belgian architect is forging a new direction in contemporary Design that still values clean lines and pure forms but doesn’t fall prey to the endgame of the cold cube.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/01/10

Philip Taaffe makes art the old-fashioned way: with paint. And his paintings are as complex and alive as they are beautiful. In an age of market-driven, hog-wild modernism, that ain’t easy.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/09

Shigeru Ban was creating shrines out of sustainable materials when the word green only described a color.

For a man who got structural ideas from wicker hats and rolls of fax paper, the buildings of tomorrow can be made of anything—as long as they’re built from the heart.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/28/09

Rebecca Voight went to Barcelona, and brought back some sun, a hangover, and a survey of the nine best designers—catalan and non—to bask in the three-day fashion week.  BLOG POSTED: 03/26/09

Mixed media artist Cyprien Gaillard is younger than Jesus, but not yet as well known. He just opened a show in Germany, and his participation in the New Museum generational promises greater US exposure.  BLOG POSTED: 01/26/09

Walt Disney may have invented the theme park, but Jeff Koons is the undisputed all-American master when it comes to filling the physical world with outsize work that deftly reflects all the mixed-up dreams, romances, anxieties, and desires of the psychological one. And if it seems like his big, brash, and occasionally mind-boggling art has taken on a life of its own recently, then it's with good reason: Because everything is going according to plan.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08