In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. “Inside the Design Center,” the Mingei International Museum’s newest ...

An exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum highlights the institution's role in the mid-century modern design movement. The exhib "Everything Eventually Connects" closes this weekend in Bloomfield Hills.

What modern is: introduction -- Space opens up -- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future -- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity -- At home in the brave new world -- Buildings like ...

Modernism is a 20th-century style roughly defined by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as encompassing “individual design movements that expressed modern ideals in different ways. Technical ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. Theodore Prudon, the founding president of Docomomo US, recently stepped down as the organization’s head. (Robert Meckfessel is the new president.

Up to 1890--The Foundations of Modernism -- 1890-1910--A New Style for a New Age -- 1910-1930--Classicism and the Universal Vision -- 1930-1950--Modernism : Better Things for Everyday Life -- ...

The term “mid-century modern interior design” conjures myriad images: The airy, Richard Neutra-designed Kaufmann House in Palm Springs that blurs the boundaries between indoor and outdoor living; the ...

The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (1886-1953): (Trans) National Approaches to His Work, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022. Cover image: Winold Reiss, "Isamu Noguchi" (c. 1929). National Portrait ...

Architecture has long been intertwined with the historical narratives of colonialism, where European powers imposed their styles and ideologies upon colonised regions, often disregarding local ...

Midcentury modern - think clean lines, simplicity in design. It was in vogue in the '50s and the '60s. Now it's considered something of an American institution. Jerald Cooper knows a thing or two ...