Summer 2015

BEHIND THE NUMBERS
Matthew Kennedy discusses the recent soaring sale of an Axel Salto sculpture

FORM AND FUNCTION
We look at the worlds of architecture, public art, craft, and design; we visit museum exhibitions and galleries on the move

BACK STORY
The longtime dealer and gallerist Mark McDonald reveals the history behind three extraordinary Tapio Wirkkala leaf platters he acquired over the years

STUDIO TOUR
Leen Creve visits the home and studio of Belgium’s up-and-coming design firm Muller Van Severen

GRADING SYSTEM
Troy Seidman evaluates (and gives a report card to) works by the Austrian-born Josef Frank

FIRST PERSON
Filmmaker and author Jake Gorst looks back on the life and work of his grandfather, the architect Andrew Michael Geller

DESIGNER PROFILE
In the centennial year of Harry Bertoia’s birth, Elizabeth Hamilton looks at an important Cranbrook exhibition of his jewelry

POINT OF VIEW
Collector and MODERN columnist Al Eiber discusses the imaginative and daringly whimsical work of the twentieth-century Parisian Yonel Lebovici

UP CLOSE
The child of pioneer Philadelphia gallerists, Evan Snyderman of R & Company was truly born into the business. Brook S. Mason explores his life and career so far

BOOKSHELF
Danielle Devine looks at a new book on Italian fashion since World War II

CURATOR’S EYE
Museum professionals discuss favorite pieces under their care

PARTING SHOT
Terence Riley discusses Japan’s Teshima Art Museum by Ryue Nishizawa and Rei Naito