Tag: Architecture

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  Learning About Edgar Miller

  28 August 2018

  News

  Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Chicago, design, Edgar Miller, Sculptural Reliefs

  Have you heard of Edgar Miller? I have been hard-pressed, even amongst Chicago (art) history aficionados, to find many people who answer in the affirmative. Born in 1899 in Idaho and spending a part of his childhood in Australia, Miller moved in Chicago in 1917 to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the next…

• Bertoia! Bertoia! Bertoia!

  24 May 2017

  News, Publications

  Alexander Calder, Architecture, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, Midcentury Modernism, Nasher Sculpture Center, Richard Lippold, Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Fellows

  I am quite thrilled to say that I am now on research leave, which will last through the 2017-18 academic year. This means that I will not only finally have some time for new Sculptural Things blog posts, but also for two new and substantial projects, both focused on the amazing and all-too-undervalued American postwar artist/…