So what did we discover in the upcoming Rago Arts Discovery auction scheduled for Sept. 11? That even with "(Attr.)" and "unmarked" in the lot description, it still takes a pretty big set of stones to sell this pile...
I know Charley Harper was so 2008 or whenever, but isn't now, after the Old Navy herd has moved on, the best possible time to make a Charley Harper-inspired mosaic mural? [Hint: YES.] In 1964, Cincinnati native Harper did...
UMass Amherst economist Catherine Haskins did a study of off-the-books household work, which includes nannies and housekeepers, and part of me really IS shocked, shocked to hear there are so many nannies under the table:Her analysis, which includes con...
As an impossibly infrequent producer of esoteric yet deeply meaningful kids' t-shirts based on true stories myself, I can only applaud the folks at RadioLab for introducing the Goat Cow Toddler Tee, a two-color design by Jez Burrows inspired...
James Hance's site, where he sells his prints and comic books of his adorable creations such as Wookie the Chew, a Star Wars X Winnie the Pooh mashup starring Han Solo as Christopher Robin, is very slow at the...
The Venice Architecture Biennale opened last weekend. It's the first time it's been curated by a woman, Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of the architecture firm SANAA. And because women are just so innately nurturing, the Biennale was transformed overnight i...
The list of things I missed in Antwerp this summer is growing, one vintage Euro, iPhone-shaped pedal car at a time. This sweet little ride was at Atelier Solarshop on the day Dubieus Design, the vintage design and furniture...
Andy just sent this over, and he's right, it'd make an awesome changing table. This happens to be in Atelier Solarshop's pop-up store in Antwerp, which is up through Oct. 9, if you want to go scout it out...
Haha, wow, whatever you've ever said about vaccines and thimerosal and mercury and autism and herd immunity and government cover-ups and Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and the Lancet and fabricating data to serve your litigious overlords, you're absolu...
I know the weekend's almost over, but I think freaking out over these stories from the worlds of parenting, science, health, and education can still ruin it retroactively: You thought "anchor babies" were gonna getchya? A politician in Rhode Island...