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2 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Glenn Adamson
“To a man or woman not thoroughly and earnestly in love with an ascetic life and deeply disgusted with the world, Shakerism would be...
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3 weeks ago | 
artforum.com | Glenn Adamson
On the return of AdhocismLIKE IT OR NOT, the Cybertruck is the representative design object of our moment. Once described by the New York Times as “a culture war on wheels”—and that was before the election—the much-reviled, much-recalled vehicle is pure imposition rolling in the public streets, an adolescent fantasy made real, with all the associated irresponsibility that implies. In March, Tesla issued a general recall of its Cybertrucks because their stainless steel panels were falling off.
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2 months ago | 
ft.com | Glenn Adamson
A porch is an in-between place — partly indoors, partly out, perched between private and public.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
newsismybusiness.com | Glenn Adamson
By Glenn Adamsonc.2024, Bloomsbury $32.99337 pagesThe weather forecast for this weekend is great, and you’ve got big plans. For sure you’ll get outside, get together with friends, have some fun; you’ve got a major project coming up at work, and it’ll be stressful, so you’ll want to grab some downtime while you can. Just thinking about it will make you smile all week because, as you’ll see in the new book “A Century of Tomorrows” by Glenn Adamson, your personal forecast is sunny.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Glenn Adamson
The machine has come to the village. We are half an hour into Sergei Eisenstein’s The Old and the New (1929), the director’s last silent film. The heroine of the story, Martha—played by an actual peasant woman—is striving to bring modernity to her rural community. Her dream of progress is symbolized, above all, by a mechanical cream separator, which has been provided by the Soviet government.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Glenn Adamson |David Grann |Bob Woodward
An illuminating look at past and present efforts to gaze into the crystal ball. A history of the future—or better, the many futures that seers and scholars have painted in the past couple of centuries. “The act of probing into the future need not be predictive to be useful,” writes historian Adamson. Instead, considering what the future might look like can focus attention on the good and bad of the present.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
news.nestia.com | Weike Wang |Glenn Adamson |Patrick Hutchison
Image Rental House By Weike Wang In the third novel by the author of “Chemistry” and “Joan Is Okay,” Keru and Nate, an interracial, young professional couple, host their parents on consecutive vacations at a rented beach house in New England and a Catskills bungalow.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
artnews.com | Sarah Douglas |Glenn Adamson |Emily Watlington |Chloe Wise
When we talk about sending an issue of a magazine to the printer, we often say we are putting it to bed. This is a time-worn phrase, an artifact of an analog era: the “bed” here refers to the printing press. I was thinking about this phrase because this issue goes to bed at the end of October. As it sleeps, if you will, the United States presidential election will be decided. When it wakes up in late November, in your—the reader’s—hands, our country will have elected a new leader.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Anne Quito |Deb Chachra |Glenn Adamson |Ian Volner
Can a chair be more than a place to sit? Might a cabinet offer more than storage? In the hands of Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser—celebrated artists, educators, and protagonists of the American Studio Craft Movement—furniture transcends function and becomes a catalyst that provokes, perplexes, and ultimately delights.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
family.style | Glenn Adamson |Ann Binlot
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two),” once wrote Robert Rauschenberg. The line, frequently quoted in relation to the artist’s famous “Combine” paintings—in which found objects and expressionist brushwork jostle furiously—dates to 1958. Little did Rauschenberg know that at the same time, over on the West Coast, another artist was erasing the gap entirely.
