Art & Architecture

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

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
The Three Passions of Alexander Petrosyan
Olga Ware speaks to photographer Alexander Petrosyan about his three passions: his art form, St. Petersburg, and people.
Olga WareApr 24, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Words Pointing to Images
A photographer’s long journey with the American everyday.
Todd GitlinApr 20, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist.
Yxta Maya MurrayApr 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Traffic in Images
“Art Isn’t Fair” integrates Allan Sekula’s photographic projects with his writings on art.
Jonah Goldman KayMar 29, 2021
- Art & Architecture
A Pulse on the Eye: The Art of Helen Frankenthaler
A sparkling new biography of a major female abstract expressionist painter.
Elaine MargolinMar 23, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Pleasures of Repose: A New Study of Fragonard
A new study of the paintings and drawings of a celebrated artist of the ancien régime.
Paul du QuenoyMar 14, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most.
Geoff NicholsonFeb 27, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay