by Whitney Kimball on November 13, 2012
Last month, I attended the New Museum panel “Stories from the New Aesthetic.” I thought we’d get to hear about how the movement has evolved since it incited a widespread art, tech, and critical dialogue; I was wrong.
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by Alix Finkelstein on October 26, 2012
While designer Robert Brownjohn’s iconic Bond film titles may have aroused audiences in the early 60s, his current show at MoMA hardly raises an eyebrow. In part, that has to do with our culture, which has so fully embraced Brownjohn’s salacious mindset that we’re nearly immune to nudity in commercial art. But it also has to do with the museum’s inability to convey the impact of the designer’s titillating imagery on a world dominated by post-war conservatism—work which made him a badass in his own time and a cult favorite among designers today.
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