“Tight and Small and Figurative”: Tom Wesselmann’s Early Collages
Susan Davidson, editor of the forthcoming monograph on the Great American Nudes, a series of works by Tom Wesselmann, explores the artist’s early experiments with collage, tracing their development from humble beginnings to the iconic series of paintings.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2023…
Joan Baez Is Still Doing Beautiful, Cool Stuff
At eighty-two, the folk singer has a new book of drawings and sleeps on a mattress in a tree.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
On Trans Joy
There’s so much I want to say to my doppelgänger. But she’s gone.
https://guernicamag.com/on-trans-jo…
Back to the Future
At the National Theatre, on London’s Southbank, a new restaurant named after Brutalist pioneer Sir Denys Lasdun has been remastered for the 21st century by the Guild of St Luke.
https://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability
We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Mass Support
Dutch architect John Habraken saw the potential of industrialized building to foster flexibility in housing design and increase inhabitants’ agency in decision-making about their own homes.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
Everything Is (Not) Architecture: Environmental Design and Architecture’s Slippery Slope
There’s no shortage of slippery slopes in the architectural lexicon: “architectural” and “architectonic” hover near the top of the list.
https://commonedge.org/everything-i…
Did OpenAI just have its ‘App Store’ moment?
OpenAI’s plugins could represent the second major phase in the rise of AI chatbots.
https://fastcompany.com/90870842/di…
Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too.
The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction.
https://nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts…
How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer
The author of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” and “White People” on growing up in a gossipy village and the ways America has changed.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
The Artist Mark Bradford Is Finally Ready to Go There
After a celebrated career of making oblique work that refused autobiography, he is making his most personal work yet.
https://nytimes.com/2023/04/19/maga…
Does Spirituality Have a Role in Educating Architects?
The question is provocative: What role can spirituality, the sense of the “sacred,” play in the teaching of architecture today?
https://commonedge.org/does-spiritu…
How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution
In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
The trauma doctor: Gabor Maté on happiness, hope and how to heal our deepest wounds
He discusses the mind-body connection, the reality of addiction and why trauma can be treated.
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl…
The Parsonage
An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
How the Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Made America Cool Again
From the poster that turned Bob Dylan into an icon to the logo that helped revive a flagging city, he gave sharp outlines to the spirit of an age.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
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…
