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A Radical Functionalist
Lois Parkinson Zamora explores “Architect Hannes Meyer and Radical Modernism” by Georg Leidenberger.
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa
Sheer Tenderness
Jessica Simmons-Reid visits Noah Davis’s posthumous survey at the Hammer Museum.
Bones, Roses, and Ruins
Janet Sarbanes encounters Nancy Buchanan’s career retrospective at the Brick in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles in Black and White
Victoria Dailey reviews Jake Milgram Wien’s catalogue raisonné “Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond.”
A Network of Global Incinerators
Rob Arcand reviews Hito Steyerl’s new essay collection, “Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat.”
Crisis Makes Weird
Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
Double Vision [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset on the occasion of their new exhibition at Pace Gallery Los Angeles.
Against the Wound
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art
Leo Braudy proposes a historical and aesthetic rationale for George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art.
The Art of the Ephemeral [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Luc Tuymans at the Louvre’s Valentin de Boulogne rotunda, where the artist’s murals were recently on display.
Bad Diagrams
Cassandra Seltman on the plumbing paintings of Harry Davies
Virtual Worlds, Future Minds [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Lawrence Lek about his Frieze London exhibition “Guanyin: Confessions of a Former Carebot.”
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