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Independent Bookstores Across America
We're culling together a map of independent booksellers around the United States, highlighting the kinds of places where you might roam for hours, scouring the shelves and scouting the stacks. If...
written by: Amanda Dameron03.05.11 -
Coast to Coast
If you're tempted by our Buyers' Guides in the current Make It Yours special issue but want to go "kick the tires," we've compiled a map of shops and showrooms in cities across the...
08.16.10 -
The World's Best Public Spaces
Here we present our favorite public places to linger, people watch, and take in nature’s bounty. We’ve gotten the ball rolling with our top picks—–expect sculpture parks and...
05.12.10 -
Regional Modern Real Estate Websites
Take a look at our ever-evolving collection of realtors and real estate websites across the United States that specialize in mid-century modern listings. We're adding new resources every day, so...
09.01.09 -
DC Embassy Walking Tour
Embassy Row along Massachusetts Avenue NW is one of the great architectural and cultural treats of Washington DC. Newly constructed embassies mingle with the brick colonials that give the...
07.13.09 -
House and Home
The National Building Museum presents House & Home, a kaleidoscopic array of photographs, objects, models, and films that takes us on a tour of houses both familiar and surprising, through past...
09.17.12 -
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
The Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., will open its exhibition of Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series on June 30. It will include over 80 abstract works by the innovative artist...
05.27.12 -
Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi's Studio Practice
The Hammer, Chisel, Drill exhibition will showcase the production process of sculptor Isamu Noguchi over the course of a career that lasted more than four decades. Located at the Noguchi Museum in...
05.24.12 -
Atelier Takagi
Atelier Takagi represents the functional and aesthetic ideals of artist and designer Jonah Takagi. Conceived as an outlet for an over active imagination, AtelierTakagi is a multi-disciplinary...
07.12.11 -
D.C. Art Gallery Shuttle
For the opening of the 2010 fall art season, three of Washington D.C.'s most popular art destinations will be connected by the ART BUS. On Saturday, September 11th, free shuttle service will be...
09.09.10 -
2010 ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo
More than 6,000 landscape architecture professionals from across the U.S. and around the world will gather in Washington, D.C. September 10–13 for the American Society of Landscape Architects...
07.07.10 -
Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration
Encompassing Albers' career from 1917 to 1973, this exhibition begins with four early self-portrait prints and follows to a group of boldly abstract compositions from Albers' tenure at Germany's...
01.07.10 -
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain
The art of textile design changed radically after World War II as Britain was transformed from a country devastated by war into an optimistic consumer society. Three women designers were pivotal in...
01.01.10 -
House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage
We have all spent time in parking garages, but we rarely stop to think about what they have meant for our cities and ourselves. House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage explores the unique...
10.02.09 -
Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
This exhibition will include approximately 40 garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and...
08.03.09 -
Grupo 7 Architects
Founded by José Tohá and Jim Cronenberg in 2002. Grupo 7 is a full-service architecture and interior design studio. Our work strives for a fresh, modern approach that is...
07.31.09 -
Modern Embassy Walking Tour in DC with Editor Aaron Britt
Embassy Row along Massachusetts Avenue NW is one of the great architectural and cultural treats of Washington DC. Newly constructed embassies mingle with the brick colonials that give the city so...
05.04.09 -
Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) was one of the foremost photographers of the 1920s and 1930s in Czechoslovakia. Funke's work merged with the mainstream amateur movement, as well as national...
03.25.09 -
Water Knows No Boundaries
Will Baker, president, Chesapeake Bay Foundation; Iris Miller, ASLA, The Catholic University of America; and Tommy Wells, Washington, D.C. Councilmember, discuss practical solutions for cleaning up...
03.24.09 -
Rebuilding Together
Rebuilding Together is the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities. Our network of more than 200 affiliates provides free...
02.25.09
