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/…
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…
