In Conversation: Anselm Kiefer and Michael Govan
On the occasion of his exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Exodus at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, the artist spoke with Michael Govan about his works that elaborate on themes of loss, history, and redemption.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022…
Ray’s Hand
Ray Kaiser Eames (1912–88) trained as an artist and Charles as an architect but they each brought many more skills and interests to what—beginning with their marriage in 1941—became one of the most creative partnerships of the twentieth century
https://eamesinstitute.org/collecti…
Never Again Is Now: The Transportation Professions’ Responsibility to Work Toward Justice
Highways have often been over my shoulder in life. I grew up an asthmatic child, with my grandparents, near the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
https://common-edge.org/never-again…
An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will
Tauba Auerbach’s brilliant, mathematical paintings and sculptures are as playful as they are conceptual.
https://nytimes.com/2023/03/16/t-ma…
Bill Stout’s legacy rests on his passion for books about architecture
In Japan, the government gives an honorary award called the National Living Treasure to those who have a unique and often unreproducible mastery of a craft or skill.
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
The Fight Over Penn Station and Madison Square Garden
How the effort to renovate midtown Manhattan’s transit hub has been stalled by money, politics, and disputes about the public good.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Special Ed Shouldn’t Be Separate
Pal Julie Kim in The Atlantic!
https://theatlantic.com/family/arch…
Newsmaker: Marsha Maytum on the Architect as Advocate
Marsha Maytum is a founder of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA), a San Francisco-based firm known for buildings that address some of today’s thorniest issues, including social inequity, homelessness, universal access, and the climate crisis.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
When Dan Flavin Saw the Light
In a re-creation of two groundbreaking shows, the artist’s strange charm remains undimmed.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-a…
Tour a Striking All-Black Home in San Francisco
The house, which was remodeled by a creative couple’s architect friends and features not one but two disco ball moments, stands out among the neighborhood Victorians.
https://architecturaldigest.com/gal…
Dansk and the Promise of a Simple Scandinavian Life
A new monograph documents how Scandinavian design charmed America.
https://newyorker.com/culture/cultu…
The Education—and Miseducation—of an Urban Planner
Urban planners take pride in knowing, not feeling, communities. Emotion is generally not part of their toolkit.
https://commonedge.org/the-educatio…
It’s Time for Africa to Chart Its Own Climate Change Agenda
Last November, the annual climate conference COP 27 came to a close in Sharm el-Sheikh with a tentative agreement, reached at the last moment, to set up a “loss and damage” climate fund for Africa and other developing countries.
https://commonedge.org/its-time-for…
Is The Dig the Most Important Podcast on the Left?
A conversation with Daniel Denvir about how his podcast became an essential feature of a radical education, the challenges facing leftist organizers, and much more.
https://thenation.com/article/world…
How Can Architecture Create and Preserve Black Spaces?
Peter Robinson, the Center for Architecture’s new vice chair, talks with deputy editor Kelly Beamon about the condition of racialized spaces and the important process of Black memory work.
https://metropolismag.com/viewpoint…
Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building
In her new book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, the architecture writer and broadcaster takes readers on a tour of the city’s most exciting apartment buildings and complexes.
https://metropolismag.com/viewpoint…
Can a museum embody environmental justice?
Storm King, the celebrated outdoor sculpture collection in upstate New York, is overhauling itself in a bid to improve accessibility and landscape protection.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
What Became of the Oscar Streaker?
After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Fifty Years of “Learning from Las Vegas”
The cool appraisal of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s revolutionary book has a lot to inspire the architects of today.
https://newyorker.com/culture/cultu…
Sacralized Space: Theaster Gates on the Practice of Placemaking
Place. It’s the ability to locate oneself where one belongs. Place is the manifestation of care.
https://deemjournal.com/stories/the…
The architecture does matter in the storming of the National Congress
On 8 January, supporters of defeated Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro swarmed the heart of the nation's capital, Brasília, in a mass protest that turned into a rampage of vandalism.
https://dezeen.com/2023/01/26/archi…
The Case for Truly Public Housing
A municipal authority in Massachusetts has deftly negotiated the privatization and deregulation of the housing market.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
America, the Bland
Across the country, new developments are starting to look the same, raising fears that cities are losing their unique charm. But in the current housing crisis, does that matter?
https://nytimes.com/2023/01/20/real…
Natural Light / Symbiosis Exhibition
John Priola’s exhibition of ten recent photographic prints, Natural Light / Symbiosis, slyly exemplifies such moments, eliciting slow and careful looking.
https://squarecylinder.com/2023/01/…
Practice With Purpose: How to Radically Redesign the Practice of Architecture
Architecture isn’t about one or two things—it’s about everything.
https://commonedge.org/practice-wit…
