Modern Magazine
Encompassing mainstream and independent publishing, and graphic and editorial design, The Modern Magazine explores the issues now facing the industry, examining changes to the basic discipline of combining text and image for the global, Internet savvy consumer. Frances Brent is a regular contributor to Modern.
Meet Georg jensen
June 26, 2018
The splendid work of Georg Jensen returns to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer, nearly one hundred years after the Danish company’s first American exhibition was held there in 1921.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine...at the Jewish Museum
June 4, 2018
“What is going on here?” This is probably the first question you’d ask if you weren’t familiar with Marc Camille Chaimowicz when visiting Your Place or Mine… at the Jewish Museum in New York.
The Wright Stuff: Manitoga
April 13, 2018
Twentieth-century designer Russel Wright arranged the footpaths cutting through the woodlands of his property in Garrison, New York, to be filled with small surprises.
The Projective Drawing at the Austrian Cultural Forum
April 3, 2018
Ever since the avant-garde architect Raimund Abraham’s design for the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City was completed in 2002, the slender, tapering glass and aluminum tower has been compared to many things including a blade, a guillotine, a light-filled totemic figure, an intergalactic guard tower, and a tiered mountainside.
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A Visit with the Starn Brothers at the Beacon Studio
January 16, 2018
The exuberant voice of a young Bob Dylan singing “Like a Rolling Stone” came up on the soundtrack as I entered the Starn brothers’ Beacon studio.
Louise Bourgeois in Print
November 16, 2017
The artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) had a tormented emotional life, but an unusually long and richly creative one that began and ended with vibrant and dynamic drawings and prints.
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess’s Ceramics Front and Center at the Kaufmann Repetto Gallery
October 16, 2017
“Serious and funny at the same time”—that’s how Magdalena Suarez Frimkess has described her philosophy on art, and you can see this in her handsomely painted ceramic box depicting a lively underwater sea world with smiling and grimacing fish, upright crabs, seahorses, buoyant eel grass, and a giant speckled octopus with curling pink arms.
Kindred Spirits at Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
September 19, 2017
A first glance at Warren MacKenzie’s generously shaped drop rim bowl with swooping iron marks standing beside John Reeve’s stocky, bright turquoise earthenware covered jar might make you wonder about the title of this splendid show, Kindred Spirits, at Lacoste Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts (September 9–September 30).
Beauty Growing: British Pottery at Yale
September 14, 2017
Studio potter Michael Cardew spoke for others of his generation when he said, “If you are lucky, and if you live long enough, and if you trust your materials and you trust your instincts, you will see things of beauty growing up in front of you, without you having anything to do with it.”
Twists and Turns in Bamboo: The Abbey Collection at the Met
August 21, 2017
To honor the opening of Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, the scion of an esteemed line of bamboo artists, constructed a spectacular on-sight installation with a team of assistants, weaving thousands of bamboo stems into a fragile membrane.
The House of Tomorrow
August 11, 2017
Long after Chicago's 1933-1934 century of Progress exposition you could still come across medallions, postcards, and bric-a-brac from the fair bearing the handsome art deco logo of a tilting planet Saturn with its outer rings sweeping up and out into the farther solar.
Jeanne Gang’s Hive for Humans Creates a Buzz
August 1, 2017
Beekeepers refer to the hive as the structure that houses bees and their honeycomb.
