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DM 15th Anniversary: A Look Back at Our Most Popular Columns

DM 15th Anniversary: A Look Back at Our Most Popular Columns

In celebration of Design Milk's 15th Anniversary, we're doing a column roundup to share the ins and outs of our weekly and monthly columns.

The Sculpture of Kathleen Ryan: Thousands of Gemstones + Decaying Fruit

The Sculpture of Kathleen Ryan: Thousands of Gemstones + Decaying Fruit

Kathleen Ryan captures the surprising beauty of decaying fruit by pinning thousands of individual minerals, gemstones and glass beads.

The Brilliant Mirrored Sculptures of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

The Brilliant Mirrored Sculptures of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

The kaleidoscopic sculptures of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian hold thousands of mirrors that dance like a diamond under a microscope.

Tara Donovan: Seeing Through Sculptures

Tara Donovan: Seeing Through Sculptures

Tara Donovan has created unfathomable new work titled "Intermediaries" showing her obsessive transformation of familiar materials.

2020 Year in Review: Unframed

2020 Year in Review: Unframed

Our resident art expert David Behringer searched for the best modern art in NYC galleries this year + here's what he saw in 2020.

Media “Buzz”: New Paintings by Fred Tomaselli

Media “Buzz”: New Paintings by Fred Tomaselli

Resin-encased collages capture the friction of two realities: A drug-like buzz of reading the news with the beauty of life & the universe.

'Oil on Canvas' Meets the Future: The Paintings of Alex Dodge

'Oil on Canvas' Meets the Future: The Paintings of Alex Dodge

New paintings by Alex Dodge continue to break new ground in digital tools, hand-craftsmanship, and a passion for material and process.

KATSU's Spray Painting Drones Invade an Entire Gallery

KATSU's Spray Painting Drones Invade an Entire Gallery

The artist known only as KATSU used pre-programed drones to paint all 4 walls of The Hole gallery in New York for the Dot exhibition.

The 3 Best New York Art Exhibitions (You Can See From Home)

The 3 Best New York Art Exhibitions (You Can See From Home)

We share 3 favorite creative gallery exhibitions “on view”, that you can experience right now, wherever you are.

Doug Wheeler Invites a New Perspective in Light

Doug Wheeler Invites a New Perspective in Light

Doug Wheeler's latest exhibition puts you IN a work of art while pushing the perception of light.

Circuit Boards of Sound: The Sculpture of Steve Parker

Circuit Boards of Sound: The Sculpture of Steve Parker

The brass horns in the sculpture of Steve Parker make music when a viewer's touch activates beautiful and unexpected recordings.

2019 Year in Review: Unframed

2019 Year in Review: Unframed

We take a visual dive back into New York City's modern art scene to see what was covered in our Unframed column in 2019.

Walead Beshty: White Shadows

Walead Beshty: White Shadows

Artist Walead Beshty produced over 11,000 blue cyanotypes of EVERY object that passed through his studio over the course of a year.

A Fog of Color: The Sculpture of Aleksandar Duravcevic

A Fog of Color: The Sculpture of Aleksandar Duravcevic

Nine of Aleksandar Duravcevic's reflective, stainless steel sculptures fill the TOTAH gallery in New York’s Lower East Side.

Unpainting: The Ethereal Art of Ryan Crotty

Unpainting: The Ethereal Art of Ryan Crotty

Ryan Crotty's latest paintings trick your eyes as the canvas is not transparent and the surface is not emitting light.