Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
This is delicious.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
An Interview with Margot Douaihy
An interview with a new mystery writer.
https://frictionlit.org/an-intervie…
Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim
The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic flux of a 25-year career, and a sense of healing.
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts…
What Do You Remember?
The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.
https://newyorker.com/culture/open-…
MYTH: “AI Governance is Just for Nerds”
Why and How Architects Can and Should Participate in A.I. Governance
https://ericjcesal.substack.com/p/m…
Curator Alex Tieghi-Walker on Loewe Teapots and Late Nights in Milano
Fun at tea time.
https://interviewmagazine.com/art/c…
Writer Anne Carson: Life is Not Fair
In this rare interview, renowned poet and essayist Anne Carson, known for her unorthodox blending of genres and forms, reflects on her approach to writing and touches on themes of memory, autofiction, and her recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ksH3FIs…
Helping Queer Seniors Age in Place – and in Community
For my housing pals.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
What We Knew Without Knowing
Notes to John Gregory Dunne.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/04/arts…
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
Hrag Vartanian interviews the artist in his Chicago studio about his childhood, his evolving craft, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.
https://hyperallergic.com/995471/ni…
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy
In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede…
David Hockney Just Keeps Painting
As he prepares for the most comprehensive exhibition of his career, the 87-year-old legendary artist opens up about aging, iPhone art, and the unstoppable urge to create.
https://wmagazine.com/culture/david…
George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father
The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser
https://theguardian.com/books/2025/…
The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
https://newyorker.com/books/under-r…
Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times
Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen as different.
https://newyorker.com/books/page-tu…
Richard Florida Wants to Talk About the “Creator Economy”
Twenty years ago I was able to make the case for the creative class, but it’s been much harder to talk to people, whether they’re in the business, urbanist, or university communities, about the importance of the creator economy. Most still don’t get it.
https://commonedge.org/richard-flor…
Learning from Park Planned Homes
Kate Wolf considers Gregory Ain’s Altadena housing development in the wake of the Los Angeles fires.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article…
Should We View Tatlin as a Russian Constructivist or a Ukrainian?
In “Tatlin: Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Leigh And Me
For you fans of Leigh Bowery.
https://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
Casa O, Enrique Olvera
And a paradise I had never seen.
https://apartamentomagazine.com/sto…
Five Bridges
A local (sort of) story by Colm Toibin.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Cy Twombly
For you Twombly fans a wonderful succinct review of the current Gagosian show.
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/ar…
Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline
President’s bullying of allies yields symbolic results—but betrays substantive weakness.
https://thenation.com/article/world…
The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in Design Education
What’s so special about February?” I recently asked my graduate design studio class. “Shortest month?” “GroundHog Day?” “Valentine’s Day?” “It’s Black History Month!” was the answer I was looking for.
https://commonedge.org/the-importan…
Silicon Wadi, Silicon Desert
For 45 years, Intel has innovated and invested in Arizona, helping to grow an ecosystem of innovation now known around the world as the Silicon Desert.
https://averyreview.com/issues/70/s…
