Please note: Cooper Hewitt will open at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, May 2.

Welcome, Chris Fralic! Read more about Fralic's recent appointment to Cooper Hewitt's Board of Trustees: cooperhewitt.org/2024/04/16/chr…

Due to inclement weather, Cooper Hewitt will have a delayed opening. The museum, SHOP, and cafe will be open 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The garden will be closed.

Some psychedelic sidewall for your Sunday. ☮️🟢🟨🔶

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Sidewall, Carnival, 1967–69; Manufactured by Woodson Wallpapers, Inc., USA.

Dan Friedman was a major contributor to the new pluralist, postmodern approach to American graphic design in the 1970s & 80s. 🌒 This image of the moon is actually a composite of photographs taken at the first and third quarter phases using a 36-inch refractor at an observatory.

Using primarily natural dyes and a combination of indigenous palm fiber (moriche), silk produced on their farm, and metallic fiber, Venezuelan textile artists Mariá Dávila and Eduardo Portillo's work “Nebula” is a mosaic of light and color. Learn more: s.si.edu/3QMv6fa

Artist Lia Cook’s creative process combines photographic media and computer-aided technologies with a mastery of hand and powered Jacquard looms. “Binary Traces: Kay” (pictured here) is woven in double-cloth. Learn how Cook brings these works to life: s.si.edu/3skMEpl

'Ah Day: The Favorite One’s Chair' was the first collaboration between Native American bead artist Teri Greeves (Kiowa) and her husband, furniture designer and woodworker Dennis Esquivel (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa): s.si.edu/3Usy9Ic

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Our first trick-or-treating stop tonight? Herbert Bayer's 'Friendly Ghost' house, of course. 👻 Happy Halloween, everyone!
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✉️ Postcard, 'Aspen's 'Friendly Ghost' House,' mid-20th century; designed by Herbert Bayer.