How should we think about our different styles of thinking?
Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Frank Auerbach: Artist Friends
In this candid interview with Richard Calvocoressi, the painter Frank Auerbach reminisces on his friendships with Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022…
How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It
His portrait of Obama sparked a nationwide pilgrimage. Now he’s establishing an arts empire of his own.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
There’s More Than One Way to Define Context
Bauer Wurster Hall is the home of the school’s College of Environmental Design (CED). Originally, it housed the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and design.
https://commonedge.org/theres-more-…
Under the Influence
Playing with the tension between photography and design, two architects create a novel form of image making.
https://issues.aperture.org/article…
Witold Rybczynski on The Story of Architecture
Witold Rybczynski’s latest book—he’s written 22 now, at last count—is The Story of Architecture (Yale University Press), and it’s as comprehensive as the title implies.
https://commonedge.org/witold-rybcz…
The Iterative States of America
In a political era defined by dysfunction, can design play a role in engaging voters—and even help them believe in democracy again?
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
How Much Would It Cost to End Homelessness in California for Good?
About $8 billion per year, according to a new housing needs assessment — or less than 3% of the state budget.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles…
Mike Kelley: the Fine Art of Dropping Out
Mike Kelley’s interest in architecture peaked in 1990, when he collaborated with Frank Gehry on a design proposal for the offices of the Chiat/Day ad agency.
https://eastofborneo.org/articles/t…
Lessons from my dying therapist: care less, have fun – and accept the inevitable
In watching my beloved counsellor die, I finally learned how to live.
https://theguardian.com/society/202…
Mark Van Proyen on Joan Brown
Twenty-two years have passed since the last Joan Brown retrospective was held in two parts at the University Art Museum at Berkeley and the Oakland Art Museum.
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/12/…
Field Notes on Design Activism: 2
This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice
https://placesjournal.org/article/f…
Tom Stoppard Fears the Virus of Antisemitism Has Been Reactivated
“There are lines in the play,” says Tom Stoppard, thinking back to a few years ago, when he was working on “Leopoldstadt,” “that land in a very different way now.”
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
An Architecture Critic’s Street-Level Take on a Restless Metropolis
In “The Intimate City,” Michael Kimmelman takes readers on a series of history-laden strolls through a New York City that never stops changing.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles…
Walter De Maria: The object, the action, the aesthetic feeling
The definitive monograph on the work of Walter De Maria was published earlier this fall.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022…
Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town
It has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022…
Duncan Hannah’s Seventies New York
In the last decade, a cottage industry has sprung up around wistful recollections of New York in the seventies.
https://theparisreview.org/blog/201…
Field Notes on Design Activism: 1
This is the first installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice.
https://placesjournal.org/article/f…
The Erotics of Cy Twombly
When I read this "biography" of Twombly I wasn't sure why the author finished the book. This article crossed my screen today and is worth reading.
https://theparisreview.org/blog/201…
Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey
Known for his social practice, performance, sculpture and work with archives, the Chicago artist memorializes those who shaped his worldview in his first major American museum survey.
https://nytimes.com/2022/11/10/arts…
I Remember All Too Well: Taylor Swift and Joe Brainard
Last year, I began running the trail at Lake Storey in Galesburg, Illinois, where I live. My friend S. recommended Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” as an exercise soundtrack; soon, I was clocking my runs by it.
https://theparisreview.org/blog/202…
Return to Sender
The Eames Collection contains hundreds of postcards ranging from marketing materials Ray and Charles created for the Herman Miller Furniture Company to souvenirs they bought during their travels and items printed by third parties featuring their exhibitions and furniture.
https://eamesinstitute.org/collecti…
Maurice Sendak’s ageless imagination
The Columbus Museum of Art’s exhibition “Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak,” the first retrospective of Sendak’s work since his death, in 2012.
https://artforum.com/books/maurice-…
Theodore Prudon: ‘Modernism Has Never Been a Popular Movement’
Theodore Prudon, the founding president of Docomomo US, recently stepped down as the organization’s head.
https://commonedge.org/theodore-pru…
The Broken Dreams of L.A.’s Grand Avenue
Frank Gehry’s decades-in-the-making tower complex in the center of Downtown Los Angeles fails to live up to its signature.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
