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See the Imaginative Illustrations on the Endpapers of Children’s Books Like ‘The World of Pooh’ and ‘Blueberries for Sal’
A new exhibition celebrates the often-overlooked endpapers of more than 50 works of children's literature ranging from the ...
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Unraveling the Colorful History of Why Girls Wear Pink and Boys Wear Blue
Pink and blue, along with other pastels, emerged as popular colors for babies in the mid-19th century, but it took time for their status as gender signifiers to be confirmed. In June 1918 ...
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Peek inside this $2M mid-century modern home in Sierra Madre
(Photo by Kevin Abesamis, Neue Focus) A Sierra Madre mid-century modern home with a distinctive facade recently hit the market for $1.985 million. Completed in 1961, this single-level house by the ...
Los Angeles Times21d
Son of an agent, he became a film exec. But the movies weren’t the same
“The Golden Hour” is a determinedly artful and novelistic memoir, recalling the ebb and flow of millions in Hollywood in the past half-century, not to account for winners and losers but to ...
The Economist22d
A century on, Art Deco is as stylish as ever
ELON MUSK has positioned himself as an innovative thinker, with bold ideas on what everything from efficient government to life on Mars should look like. His aesthetic principles, however, are ...
The Art Newspaper22d
New book tells the story of a century of Middle Eastern art
Saeb Eigner: The book’s introduction and preface provide a substantive historical overview of Middle Eastern art over the past century. The preface also reflects on my personal engagement with ...
New York Post26d
How ‘Mid-Century Modern’ handled Linda Lavin’s real-life death — and it was her idea
Broadway star Linda Lavin died in December at age 87 – and she planned how her death would play out onscreen for her posthumous role in “Mid-Century Modern.” The Hulu show stars Lavin, ...
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Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US
An expansive account of the ever-popular mid-century movement, from the place where it all began Embark on a surprising and joyful visual tour of American mid-century modernism through hundreds of ...