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…
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…
