Tim Tomkinson

What if you could get a real work of art for as little as $20? And it’s not a coffeehouse portrait of Neil Young?

Regional and world-class museums alike must daily contend with the same pedestrian woe: How can we show all this art? Limited by...

An interest-free government loan to buy contemporary art? Someone tell Fannie Mae.

So you bought a little art and you kinda wonder what’s in your—and its—future. Read on.

Read on for a brief history of art collecting—and a guide to your first acquisitions.

If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin...

If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin...

Manifesto: Bruce Sterling, “Viridian Design Speech” (1998)

Manifesto: Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, “Deconstructivist Architecture” (1988)

Manifestos: Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961), Congress for the New Urbanism, “Charter of the New...

Manifesto: Robert Venturi, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” (1966)

Manifestos: Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture” (1923); Walter Gropius, “The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus” (1923)

Manifesto: F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)

Manifesto: William Morris, “The Lesser Arts of Life” (1877)

Which comes first, the movement or the manifesto? From Arts and Crafts to eco-design, a seven-step guide to design movements.

The basic principle of prefab, whereby a home is fabricated in one location and then delivered to another, has been around for at...