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How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/t-magazine/japonisme-paris-western-design.html How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design In the late 19th century, Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship overtook Paris, inspiring a movement that would radically transform Europe’s visual culture. “Florence Peterson Lying Down, in a Floral Kimono,” circa 1909-10, a cyanotype image taken by the French-born photographer Paul Burty Haviland, whose grandfather the art critic Philippe Burty coined the term “Japonisme.”Credit...Pho...

Life Meets Art explores the houses of the world’s most cultured and creative legends

By Samantha Pires on February 6, 2021 From left to right: Tatlin’s Tower, or Monument to the Third International; Einstein Tower, or Einsteinturm; Geisel Library of the University of California, San Diego; Weissenhof Estate; The Glass House; Rietveld Schröder Housed; Nakagin Capsule Tower; Bauhaus Building in Dessau Describing an architecture style as “modern” may inherently be a bit confusing. After all, a structure was modern while it was being designed and built. Why then, do so many movements an...

According to his cousin and close friend Diana Watson, the mind of artist Francis Bacon "seldom moved from the facts of love, death, massacre and madness". Now, decades on from Bacon's death in 1992, Pulitzer-prize winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan not only explore Bacon's preoccupation with those powerful themes in their authoritative and fascinating biography, but offer us a chronological and in-depth account of his background, life and times. Like all great biographies, the figure centre stage is seen in the context of the zeitgeist. In this instance, family wealth, social mor...