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Lynne Marie Stewart, the actress best known for her role as Miss Yvonne on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, passed away peacefully at her Los Angeles home on February 21, 2025, at the age of 78, after a brief illness.
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The first car to enter MoMA’s collection, in 1972, the Cisitalia 202, designed in 1946 by Battista “Pinin” Farina (known as Pininfarina) is also the rarest – only approximately 170 of them are known to have been made. Continue reading Eye On Design: Cisitalia 202 GT Car
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Recalling the organic folds of heavy drapery, the self-supporting FSW Folding Screen by Charles and Ray Eames (1946) offers an elegant way to divide a room by screening off objects and activities. The screen could also serve as a backdrop for other furniture.
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Charles Sheeler (1883 – 1965) saw the modern equivalent of the imposing religious architecture of the past in the expansive, streamlined masses of factory buildings and refineries. Incantation (1946), whose very title sounds like a spiritual evocation, is a fragmentary view of a continuous-flow oil production plant. Here, Sheeler reduced the architectural forms to a more two-dimensional design in which shadows play as weighty a role as the metal tanks and pipes. The lack of a human presents suggest the degree to which these vast plants had come to be viewed as nearly autonomous forces.
Photographed in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 1985) sought to replicate the immediacy of the art of the untutored. In this sheet, he incised four figures into a ground of opaque watercolor, exposing the sandpaper he used as a support. The technique shares more with graffiti and the scrawls of children than with academic drawing. The artist once remarked, “When I say ‘draw,’ I’m not to the slightest degree thinking of faithfully reproducing objects . . . No, its a matter of something quite different: to animate the paper, to make it palpitate.”
Photographed in the Morgan Library in Manhattan.