Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Jesse Jackson’s “Suburban Ecologies”: Irvine, Refracted
For Catherine Liu, Jesse Jackson’s exhibit “Suburban Ecologies” affords a provocative and unsettling reading of Irvine.
Catherine LiuSep 12, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Sight and Insight: “Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler”
An exhibition of Paulina Peavy’s work explores the artist’s fascination with spiritualism and alien consciousness.
Johanna Drucker Sep 4, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Picturing the Public Interest
Alex Weintraub considers “Is It Ours?,” Martha Buskirk’s new book on art and copyright.
Alex WeintraubSep 1, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Against Mug Shots
How can artists create images that counter the carceral state?
Piper FrenchAug 12, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Signs of Urban Life: On “The 99% Invisible City” and “The City Beneath”
Two books decipher the hidden meanings behind urban design, from sewage systems to graffiti art.
Oliver WangAug 2, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles.
Sam Hall KaplanJul 11, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Darkness on the Edge of Town
A photo collection catalogs the use and abuse of American land.
Kerri ArsenaultJul 8, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor.
Thomas McLeanJul 3, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Metabolizing the Future
In a country ruined by World War, a generation of Japanese visionaries in literature and architecture imagined ways to survive global apocalypse.
De Witt Douglas KilgoreJun 5, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- SF
The Indirect Acts of History
Michael Osman reviews "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" by Keller Easterling.
Michael OsmanMay 26, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Comfort and Transience
Micah Cash’s “Waffle House Vistas” blends nostalgia with a kind of eerie dystopianism.
Amy BowersMay 9, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
The legendary Russian performance artist on the theory and politics of clowning.
Johanna SkibsrudApr 25, 2021
- Art & Architecture