She May Not Love It, But Rawsthorn Talks 'Design-Art' Events

“Design-art” has been the it word (or words) so far this year (years even?), as you might remember us pointing out a handful of times. But, as a rule, we don’t make any concrete decisions about anything until we’ve read Alice Rawsthorn‘s opinions on them. Turns out, we’re pretty fortunate, as she’s just written a new column for the International Herald Tribune about “design-art.” While she doesn’t love it so much, and lays out a few choice critiques on why “art” should be “art” and “design” be “design,” she eventually has to concede that, while she might not go along with all that’s happening right now, it’s doing big, big business within the art industry, so it’s foolish not to at least take a look at it.