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From craft to industry: furniture designed by Edward Durell Stone for senator Fulbright
Only yesterday, basket-weaving and wood-working were bandicraft operations in Arkansas. Today ... they have developed into an industry making modern ......(Continue Reading) The academy strikes back: last fall, as official taste reigned at major international surveys in Beijing and Pingyao, avant-garde artists responded with
After the demise of Soviet-bloc Communism, sentimentalists on the left did a good deal of wishful thinking about a "third way" between that ......(Continue Reading)Seeing Noguchi anew: for an exhibition that has toured Europe and will come to New York in the spring, Robert Wilson turned his theatrical skills to providing
Almost 15 years after Isamu Noguchi's death, his reputation would not seem to need burnishing. From Albany, N.Y., to Yokohama, Japan, his art is found ......(Continue Reading)Stone surfaces popular for durability, variety of styles
Hotel decor constantly must be updated because of use and wear, and to keep up with ever-changing styles. One exception is tile and stone. Surfaces made of these materials have staying power that c...(Continue Reading)Wartime Gilt: French Furniture of the '40s - exhibit of French furniture made just before, during, and after World War II
As France continues to rethink its recent past, an exhibition outside Paris provided an unprecedented look at the decorative arts of this troubled and ......(Continue Reading)
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