In recent decades, museums and galleries have made a sensory turn when it comes to designing displays and engaging visitors. Museums like the Metropolitan in New York offer multi-sensory ...

A nonverbal art requires a nonverbal comment. Did Marshall McLuhan say that? No, it was Wyndham Lewis, the rambunctious Englishman of arts and letters in whose observations and eccentricities ...

Designing packaging goes beyond performing a specific fit-for-use function.

The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul is available in June 2025.

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In my forthcoming study, Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum, I examine the influence of exhibition designer and painter Harley Parker (1915-92) on this "sensory turn" in museum curatorial ...