Art

Douglas Turner Ward, Pioneering Black Theater Artist, Dead At 90

A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?” that inspired the Ford Foundation to fund the creation of the Negro Ensemble Company, with Ward as artistic director. Both he and the troupe amassed nominations and awards, and the NEC counts some of the world’s most admired Black actors as alumni. Ward was also a playwright, and just last year published his magnum opus, a trilogy titled The Haitian Chronicles. – The New Yo...
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M. Ward: Unreal City

Filmed on the streets of Paris, the Beatrice Pegard-directed video for M. Ward’s latest track, “Unreal City,” brings the spirit of New Wave filmmaking into the present day. Clémence Poésy stars as the adventuring, everyday heroine and her movements bring the beautiful of the song to life. “Unreal City” appears in advance of M. Ward’s forthcoming album, Migration Stories, recorded within Arcade Fire’s Montreal studios.
Tags: Music, Design, Music Videos, Culture, Paris, Indie, Montreal, Listenup, New Music, Indie Pop, Ward, M Ward, New Wave, Beatrice Pegard, Unreal City, New Wave Filmmaking

Design vs. Disposability: The Icon Approach

The folks over at Freethink have put together a killer video on Jonathan Ward's Icon. This one isn't just drooling over the cars and Ward's legendary attention to design detail; instead they ask the larger question, what if this level of thought, design, future-proofing and craftsmanship were applied to all products? What would that do to our perceptions of disposability and long-term use?"They're taking a 40 year old car," says a familiar voice in the video, "and essentially preparing it for it...
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Photo Flash: OKLAHOMA! Performs At 'Verdura at 80: Timeless Style' Event

Verdura Jewels and Chairman and President Ward and Nico Landrigan celebrated the legendary company's 80th Year with Verdura at 80 Timeless Style which introduced their 2019 Verdura Belperron Holiday Collections. [Author: BWW News Desk]
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When Mary Met Edgar: Exploring Cassatt and Degas

The artists’ mysterious relationship was one of the most significant of the Impressionist era. A new play delves into their connection.
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Art Review: Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum

The artist’s large, site-specific works are slightly diminished in this midcareer museum retrospective, though his found-object aesthetic remains moving in his smaller sculptures.
Tags: Art, News, Sculpture, Ward, New Museum, NARI, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nari Ward

Jonathan Ward on Designing Without Corporate Interference, and Where Icon Could Go

In design school, we're taught that our greatest struggles will be design-based: Find the form. Improve the function. Source the best materials. Figure out the manufacturability. But spend a few years working in industrial design, and you'll often find those aren't the greatest struggles at all. Your greatest challenge is named Dennis and he's an uncooperative engineer. Or Nancy in Marketing, Greg from Accounting, Susan in Operations, The Client. A lot of times it seems like designers are t...
Tags: Design, Wall Street, Nancy, Dennis, Object Culture, Susan, Ward, Greg, McKinney, Steelcase, Horween, Voltron, Jonathan Ward, Andrew Morrison, Bruce Hannah

Jonathan Ward's Obsessive Approach to Design

This is a story about Jonathan Ward's obsessive approach to industrial design. If you're an industrial designer, you'll recognize some parts of his process, and perhaps be envious of the parts you don't. If you're not an industrial designer, this story will show you how an experience or series of thoughts can be translated, through hard work and over time, into an extraordinary physical product. PRELUDE It's the 1920s, and an audacious American businessman named E.L. Cord wants to make the best...
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This is What Thorough Design Attention Looks Like: Details of the Icon Duesey

In Part 1 of this story, we covered how Jonathan Ward's Duesey project came about and how he executed it. Ward tackled the design both as an industrial means of self-expression, and to correct what he saw as unconscionable design lapses in other objects in the category. Here in Part 2, Ward walks us through the design details of the finished product, revealing both his signature attention to detail and the extreme lengths he'll go to for the sake of holistic, aesthetic satisfaction (see: Packagi...
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Jonathan Ward's Obsessive Approach to Industrial Design

This is a story about Jonathan Ward's obsessive approach to industrial design. If you're an industrial designer, you'll recognize some parts of his process, and perhaps be envious of the parts you don't. If you're not an industrial designer, this story will show you how an experience or series of thoughts can be translated, through hard work and over time, into an extraordinary physical product. PRELUDE It's the 1920s, and an audacious American businessman named E.L. Cord wants to make the best...
Tags: Europe, New York, Design, America, Indianapolis, Earth, ISO, Italy, Switzerland, Nikon, Pebble Beach, Jalopnik, Canon, Coo, Cadillac, Object Culture

Our Favorite Interviews with Designers and Creatives in 2018

This year we got to sit down (and Skype down) with some incredible creatives. We were interested in not only what these people do, but what their thinking process is and how they gained their current positions. Here's a rundown of our favorite interviews from this year on these topics and more. An Interview with Michael DiTullo, Part 1 The story of how the successful industrial designer climbed multiple ladders to wind up principal of his own design firm. "Sometimes young students talk to me abo...
Tags: Design, Skype, Belkin, Ward, Schwarz, Design Business, Christopher Schwarz, Jonathan Ward, Michael DiTullo, David Kleeman Belkin, Oliver Seil Belkin

An Interview with Jonathan Ward, Founder of Icon (Part 1)

Every designer's dream is to create the exact object they envision, unhindered by accountants, marketers and planned obsolescence. Industrial designers among you, think of every project you've worked on where the best engineering and materials were prohibitively expensive; the style needed to be compromised to appeal to a market you had no interest in; and the object couldn't be too durable, because the company needed the customer to come back and buy a new one in five years.Jonathan Ward has fo...
Tags: Design, Jay Leno, Virginia, New York City, Cars, Tesla, Ford, Chatsworth, Icon, Jonathan Ive, Coyote, Moma, Jamie, Ward, TIG, CNC

An Interview with Jonathan Ward, Founder of Icon (Part 2)

[If you missed Part 1 of this interview, it's here.]Jonathan Ward is talking about old-school custom car styling shops. "If you were a baller in the 1920s, '30s or '40s," he explains, "you didn't go buy a Cadillac. You bought a Cadillac, and you sent it to one of the boys, and they built a custom vehicle just for you on that platform." Ward is, in the modern day, one of the boys. He's got the same unerring sense of aesthetic as a Giuseppe Figoni or either of the Bertones--but he's also got ac...
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An Interview with Jonathan Ward, Founder of Icon

Every designer's dream is to create the exact object they envision, unhindered by accountants, marketers and planned obsolescence. Industrial designers among you, think of every project you've worked on where the best engineering and materials were prohibitively expensive; the style needed to be compromised to appeal to a market you had no interest in; and the object couldn't be too durable, because the company needed the customer to come back and buy a new one in five years.Jonathan Ward has fo...
Tags: Design, Jay Leno, Virginia, New York City, Cars, Tesla, Ford, Chatsworth, Icon, Jonathan Ive, Coyote, Moma, Jamie, Ward, TIG, CNC

6 great New Mexico art experiences

N othing inspires artists more than jaw-dropping natural landscapes, and New Mexico has those in spades. Perhaps that’s why the Southwestern state has been making art for millennia — from the cave walls of ancient civilizations to artists like D.H. Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe, the New Mexico art scene has never, ever run dry. In fact, it’s only getting bigger. And we’re not talking art museums. Here are six mind-blowing experiences that go well beyond your standard picture frame, for when you...
Tags: Travel, Google, Art, Yoko Ono, Culture, Things To Do, Museums, Experiences, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Rube Goldberg, Mona Lisa, Philip Glass, All, Southwestern, Main Street

Author Jesmyn Ward On Writing Place And Our 'Difficult Moment In History'

Ward, author of Savage the Bones, The Men We Reaped and the new Sing, Unburied, Sing, says that she and George Saunders (author of the Booker-winning Lincoln in the Bardo) may both be writing about the spirit world right now for similar reasons: "Many people in power are attempting to rewrite the past and the […]
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Cool Stuff: Cinemaps and Down Time Art from Gallery1988

We showed you a few pieces from artist Andrew DeGraff‘s forthcoming Cinemaps book just a few days ago, but more of his unique cinematic maps that trace the journeys of pop culture characters have been unveiled. Plus, artists Glen Brogan and Luke Flowers have teamed for a collection called Down Time that imagines what some of your favorite film, TV, and comics characters do when they’re kicking back and relaxing, and the results are delightful. Join us below and take a look at a few of our favor...
Tags: Art, Movies, Los Angeles, Dorothy, Indiana Jones, Cool Stuff, Ward, Adam West, Burt Ward, Melrose Avenue, Glen Brogan, Degraff, Gallery1988, Andrew DeGraff, Luke Flowers, Burgess Meredith Caesar Romero Frank Gorshin

This Year's Longlist For The National Book Awards

Lisa Ko is one of four début writers on the list, along with Carmen Maria Machado, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Carol Zoref. Two of the writers on this year’s list have contended for the award before: Ward and Jennifer Egan, who was a finalist, in 2001, for “Look at Me.”
Tags: Art, Words, Ward, Lisa Ko, Jennifer Egan, Carol Zoref, 09.15.17, Carmen Maria Machado Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Illustrator Reimagines What Disney Movies Would Look Like If They Were Made Nowadays

UK-based graphic artist Tom Ward has a lot to say about the current state of the world, and he’s using the help of everyone’s favourite Disney characters to do it. In a new series of drawings Ward has dubbed “Alt Disney,” he connects the storylines of several classic Disney movies to modern social issues, creating a dark but intriguing look at reality through the eyes of our fictional childhood heroes. The images provide powerful commentary on water pollution, animal abuse, obsession with tec...
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Exclusive Podcast: BROADWAY'S BACKBONE with IN TRANSIT's Nicholas Ward

IN TRANSIT'sNicholas Ward made his Broadway debut in his mid-30s in ON THE TOWN and now has a featured role in the a cappella musical, where he is the foundation of the chord. Growing up in the sticks he never dreamed he'd be creating music on Broadway, but with some faith, a good foundation, and the trust that life will come full circle, he is on the rise. It's his appreciation of magical moments that makes himso congenial, but it's his knowledge that they must be shared that makes him so speci...
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Bourbon Chocolatier Sauce by Ward's Kentucky...

Bourbon Chocolatier Sauce by Ward's Kentucky Specialties. A perfect marriage of dark chocolate and aged bourbon. Perfect for everything from ice cream to fresh strawberries to cocktails and more. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com) [Author: NOTCOT]
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