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/…
How One Architect Helped Imagine a Better Future for a Nigerian Village in Crisis
After suffering a terrorist attack in 2014, Ngarannam is now celebrating the opening of its new village, a project by the UNDP and Tosin Oshinowo that promises to make their community more resilient.
https://dwell.com/article/ngarannam…
How a Sculptor Made an Art of Documenting Her Life
The artist Anne Truitt began keeping a journal in 1974, at fifty-three, after retrospectives of her work at the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art left her feeling “crazed,” she wrote, “as china is crazed, with tiny fissures.”
https://newyorker.com/books/under-r…
Towards a New Commons, Away from Silver Bullets
Reset: Towards a New Commons, the most recent exhibition at New York’s Center for Architecture (CfA), opened at a moment when the idea of a unified public in the United States seems at best a relic of a bygone era.
http://averyreview.com/issues/58/to…
Remembering Dean Emeritus Richard Bender
With immense sadness, the College of Environmental Design announces the passing of Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Richard Bender.
https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/remem…
Windows of the mind: early Dora Maar images – in pictures
A new exhibition featuring 1930s works from the French artist anticipates her foray into surrealism – and proves her status as a key figure of modernism.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress
His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks — some fresh from the studio — and celebrated spiral.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts…
Artforum – Under the cover
Visit the Artforum video section spotlighting Under the Cover.
https://artforum.com/video/under_th…
New York Times Style – The Greats
In our 2022 Greats issue, out Oct. 16, T celebrates four inimitable artists across music, film, fashion design and sculpture whose talents — and ability to transcend the expectations of their craft — have cemented their place in the culture.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
Meet Lucia Eames, the Latest Midcentury Design Celebrity
Crate & Barrel just introduced a new line of Eames housewares. No, not that Eames.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/13/real…
Joan Didion and the Western Spirit
The Hammer Museum won the claim on Didion’s legacy, with its expansive new show on the poet of California.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts…
Why corporate America broke up with design
Every company wanted to be Apple. Then reality set in.
https://fastcompany.com/90779666/wh…
David Baker’s Tahanan Supportive Housing Takes its Design Cues from the Surrounding Filipino Community
Innovative design joined creative financing to speed production of a 145-unit permanent housing complex for the formerly unhoused.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Steven Heller Gets Personal in His New Autobiography Growing Up Underground
“Design is my lens; there is always something worth examining through this camera obscura”
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-i-…
John Ashbery’s Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists
This book allows one to read with as much freedom as one listens to a playlist, in sequence or on shuffle.
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/10/ar…
When Architectural History Meets Personal History
Writer Eva Hagberg and I have known each other for a long time. Way back, in a year I can’t remember, I assigned her one of her first magazine assignments.
https://commonedge.org/when-archite…
An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
https://nytimes.com/2022/09/19/t-ma…
Gregory Ain, American Pioneer
Gregory Ain’s interest in affordable housing, prefabrication, and racial and gender equality make him an important figure to learn from today.
https://archpaper.com/2022/09/grego…
“I Felt It Was the Right Thing To Do”
Architecture firms don’t usually make labor history, but it happened earlier this month when employees at Bernheimer Architecture agreed to form a union.
https://commonedge.org/i-felt-it-wa…
