I've been entertaining myself with this blog on modernism for quite a while, but I have run out of things to say. I haven...

Display at the Musee des Arts Decoratif My friend Roseanne and I met her daughter and a friend in Paris last summer. My favorite place...

Neckties from the 1940s and '50s were the acme of modernism. Some were advertised as hand-painted as in this R monogram tie....

Magazine design, 1966 The modern movement in the visual arts is often defined as mid-20th-century modern, although the movement began ...