When traditional craft met blossoming ModernismPoets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, wal...
Bright, bold pictograms distill male and female experienceImagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in publi...
As a boy, Tom’s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in...
Tom’s taste for police officers and felons―and for sexual tension between the two―developed late in his career. “I’ve never been to prison,” he told a class at the Californi...
Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Ang...
Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history’s most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individu...
French architect and designer Jean Prouvé innovated crisp, economical construction designs, marrying inexpensive materials and mass production with aesthetic elegance and technical brillianc...
Paul Gauguin’s Pacific visions radiate with color and sunshinePaul Gauguin (1848–1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a t...
Simultaneously a fast-paced contemporary metropolis and a venerable center of history and culture, London seduces the traveler with infinite possibilities for an action-packed weekend. Now, with th...