Launched by the European Commission in 2021, theNew European Bauhausis an EU policy and funding initiative that aims at transforming the built environment, leading to holistically thought and designed buildings, open spaces and neighbourhoods under the ...
The notion that machine-made objects have aesthetic value has been with us for some time, dating back to avant-garde movements of the early 20th century such as Futurism, which influenced other schools, including the Bauhaus and De Stijl. However, the idea that a museum would display a prope...
…so you would have to smoke a ton of those things to get one of these swell prizes… …early Budweiser ads often featured images of the Old South…here they conjured up the ghost ofMark Twain(who had been dead only 24 years), putting the great humorist and writer on par with their ...
many leading European thinkers had left the continent and were making their multi-story dreams come true on the other side of the Atlantic. They included greats such as Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and
A housing exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art proposed policy and design solutions that addressed housing for the masses in “a human environment,” with European innovations leading the way. The Romanian-bornCarol Aronovici(1881-1957), a well-known expert in city planning and public housing, ...
Since Stein had never seen the opera performed, writer and photographerCarl Van Vechtenconvinced Stein and Toklas to fly on an airplane for the first time in order to be able to see the play in Chicago. FLIGHT INSURANCE…Stein and Toklas were anxious about flying, so Van Vechten gave each ...