Art & Architecture

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

LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan's failures and deceptions surrounding the museum's renovations.
Joseph GiovanniniApr 5, 2019
- Art & Architecture
Have Your Dust and Eat It: On Alexander Robinson’s “The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles”
A book about one of Los Angeles’s biggest historical embarrassments calls for a new way of seeing it as beautiful.
Peter Sebastian ChesneyApr 4, 2019
Freddie Outside the Bronx: Frederic Tuten’s “My Young Life”
Reading Frederic Tuten's "My Young Life," you’re aware of just how easily this might have been a dilettante’s memoir.
Charles TaylorMar 19, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
Dancing Between Worlds: An Interview with Saul Williams
On Saul Williams’s blended family; his love for Ntozake Shange; and his latest project, Neptune Frost, the graphic novel and its musical.
DJ Lynnée DeniseMar 5, 2019
Social Practices: An Interview with Chris Kraus
“People always thought of L.A. as representing the future. The future is probably someplace else now.”
Maeve HannaFeb 23, 2019
- Art & Architecture
The Center Is Not the Center: An Interview with Chris Kraus
Talking to Chris Kraus about art, Baudrillard, and where artists should live.
Sophie T. LvoffFeb 23, 2019
- Art & Architecture
Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest”
India Mandelkern samples “May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion” by Alison Pearlman.
India MandelkernFeb 17, 2019
Histories of Violence: When Art Is Born of Resistance
Brad Evans speaks with American artist Martha Rosler. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series.
Brad EvansFeb 4, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Histories of Violence
Here Lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Erasure: Cy Twombly, the Indolent Dauphin of Keatsian Negative Capability
One of the major threads throughout “Chalk” is that the erasures and omissions in Twombly’s art mirror the erasures and omissions of Twombly’s life.
Tyler MaloneJan 26, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Biography & Autobiography
WhatsApps with Women #2: Joanna Walsh Talks to Artist and Curator Tamsyn Challenger about Pussy Riot
A conversation with Tamsyn Challenger about "Free The Pussy!," the recent exhibition on Pussy Riot.
Joanna WalshJan 25, 2019
Paper Cities and Media Wars: On Lucia Allais’s “Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century”
Enrique Ramirez takes a look at Lucia Allais's "Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century."
Enrique RamirezJan 23, 2019
In Fine Feather
A gorgeous book documents the painting of a laboratory wall.
Bill MorganJan 13, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Science & Technology