266 Search Results for “August”

• Part of Jun 2009 by David D'Arcy

  Wright Again

  When you are in rainy New York this summer, one of the exhibitions to see is  “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward.” At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through August 23. (Taliesen West, Scottsdale, 1937-59.) Back in the 1930s, when the young Museum of Modern Art had already declared itself the arbiter of all things modern, architecture curator Philip Johnson made a statement about Frank Lloyd Wright that he lived More …

• Part of Jun 2009 by Ellen Berkovitch

  Costumes from Ethnic China at the Museum of International Folk Art

  Although I dislike sewing (and actually dont know how) I have always liked rickrack. Rickrack in concept (to a non-sewer) allows for ribboning of hems collars sleeves. It may not be rickrack that embosses the splendid small saddle, part of the spellbinding exhibit Writing with Thread (through August 16 at Santa Fes Museum of International Folk Art), but it reminded me of the impulse to be decorated that unites dance More …