Bauhaus, 1919-1928
Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985
The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1938

Muriel Cooper: Turning Time into Space
"We hope to make the tools and to use them." Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was a graphic designer who spent the bulk of her career working at MIT. In the mid-50s, she started as a designer in the Office of Publications. By the mid-60s she was the first Design Director at the MIT Press, where she rationalized their production system and designed classic books like The Bauhaus (1969) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972), along with about 500 others.

Enzo Mari was a Universe
As he wrote in Funzione della ricerca estetica (1970): “The meaning of the research will only be understood by the public after a mediation, which will last for at least two generations”. This archive is a complex codified diary in which Mari collected and conserved his projects and wider programme of revolutionary ideas; it is his life’s work, the essence of his research. For Mari, “The research is the design, not the product”. Now we need to rediscover those methods and ideas, preserve them, and celebrate their astonishing transformative potential.

Modern art in your life
Oct 5–Dec 4, 1949
The Museum of Modern Art
By Robert Goldwater, in collaboration with René d'Harnoncourt

Virgil Abloh: “Insert Complicated Title Here” at Harvard University's School of Design
Virgil Abloh (Rockford, IL 1980) is an architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he completed a Master´s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Think Program: Synopsis of the Exhibition "Designing Programs / Programming Designs"
Karl Gerstner. Directed by Emilio Ambasz, Museum of Modern Art, 1973

Exhibitions

The Art of This Century Gallery
The Art of This Century gallery was opened by Peggy Guggenheim at 30 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City on October 20, 1942. The gallery exhibited important modern art until it closed in 1947, when Guggenheim returned to Europe.

Peggy Guggenheim, Art of This Century

Serve-and-Volley
Justin Warsh and Miguel Abreu
This interview was convened around a laptop and various bits of tennis footage that provided a visual soundtrack for the conversation. Links to the videos are provided whenever possible (some
coverage was only available on subscription tennis TV—exclusivity remains a draw for tennis fans).

FREE-GAME
As part of Virgil Abloh™ “community service” and “post-modern” mentoring initiative programs.

The Young Man’s Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition
In 1935, some of the most prominent avant-garde designers in France, including Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, came together to collaborate on The Young Man's Home, a self-contained apartment that was exhibited as part of the French entry to the Brussels Exhibition. Over a third of the total space was given over to a well-appointed gym, designed by René Herbst, complete with a large-scale painting, Exercise Room, by Fernand Léger on its rear wall. Le Corbusier, Perriand and Léger all wrote about the role of leisure, sport and physical exercise in modern life, with Le Corbusier terming sport 'A food as indispensable as bread itself'.

Designed by: Lella Vignelli
Lella often said, “Massimo is the dreamer, I am the realist. He flies high, and sometimes I have to pull him down…” In any case, the end products have always reflected our mutual way of understanding and approaching design problems.

Open Score
Choreographed by Robert Rauschenberg for Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York. Edited footage from video documentary produced by Experiments in Art and Technology, New York, originally released on 1-inch videotape and VHS (1997)

John Cage and the Architecture of Silence
Branden W. Joseph. October , Summer, 1997, Vol. 81 (Summer, 1997), pp. 80-104.

Myra Hess
Hess organized concerts held at the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square for the entire duration of WWII. She began programming lunchtime concerts a few weeks after the start of the war. They were presented on Monday to Friday, for six-and-a-half years without fail. If London was being bombed, the concert was moved to a smaller, safer room. In all, Hess presented 1,698 concerts seen by 824,152 people; she personally played in 150 of them.

Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Jean-François Lyotard and Thomas Repensek. October , Autumn, 1979, Vol. 10 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 59-67.

Daniel Buren

Dispersion
Seth Price. Self-published to distributedhistory.com, 2002.

The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
Walter Gropius, 1965, Trans. P. Morton Shand. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MIT Press, Walter Gropius

On Compression
Cory Arcangel, "On Compression," in a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould (London: Film and Video Umbrella, 2008).

Cory Arcangel

The vocabulary according to Virgil Abloh. A liberal definition of terms and explanation of ideas.
3%: The exact ratio needed to
twist a normative object into
something special.

Trois bagatelles for David Tudor