Philip Johnson

Is This The Most Beautiful House In The World?

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Architecture, Design, Beautiful House, Glass House, Most Beautiful House, Philip Johnson, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Best Designed House, Books News

The architect Philip Johnson's Glass House is one of the most important icons of modern architecture. For nearly five decades, Johnson and the art col...

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How to "Live-by-Design?" See-Through the Glass House

Alla Kazovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, The Glass House, Creativity Coaching, Self-Help, Philip Johnson, Design, Landscape Architecture, Arts News
Alla Kazovsky

Located on a 47-acre property, a simple glass box was once one of the most famous houses in the United States. Philip Johnson's Glass House compound reformed and re-defined the living environment.

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ARCHITECTURE: The Hidden Archives Of Philip Johnson, On Sale Now

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Sales, For Sale, Drawings, Sketches, Found Art, Unknown-Art, Architecture, Archives, Design, Philip Johnson, Arts News

A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice -- including his hand-drawn sketches for towers ...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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Culture Zohn: Dancing With the Outliers

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture of Dance, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Wayne McGregor, Philip Johnson, Bauhaus, NY City Ballet, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2010-05-17-outsidepull.jpg Wayne McGregor, an outlier himself, wants bodies to "misbehave." This energetic, sexy ballet, informed by architecture, shows how.

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The 'Young' Collecting Elite Meet at the Winter Antique Show

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martha Busconi, Patricia Livingston, Bill Cunningham, Fifth Avenue, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ralph M. Chait Galleries, William Hamo Thornycroft, Gaston Lachaise, Prometheus, Mark Gilbertson, William Rutledge, Meg Touborg, East Side House Settlement, New York City Ballet, Alexis Bodenheimer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ryan Toohey, Prada, Olivia Wright, Fine Art Society, Risa Heller, Rockefeller Center, Mario Buatta, Recession, Olde Hope, Renault White, Maggie-Rizer, Ronald Lee Fleming, Gary Alexander, Philip Johnson, Winter-Antique-Show, Rodney Leonard, Jeremy Polk, Tonya Miller, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Last week, on January 22nd, the 56th annual Winter Antique Show, benefiting the South Bronx's East Side House Settlement, opened with the usual, packe...

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