Art & Architecture

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

Portrait of an Artist: On Catherine Cusset’s “Life of David Hockney: A Novel”
Geoff Nicholson looks at “Life of David Hockney: A Novel” by Catherine Cusset, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Geoff NicholsonMay 14, 2019
The Life and Death of a Line: Saul Steinberg’s “The Labyrinth”
Paul Morton follows the line through Saul Steinberg's "The Labyrinth," recently rereleased by New York Review Books.
Paul MortonMay 11, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Comics
Betraying Camp
Alex Weintraub evaluates the Met's "Camp: Notes on Fashion," which has an "approach to fashion [that] is, ultimately, a self-defeating one."
Alex WeintraubMay 5, 2019
- Art & Architecture
The Sense of Passage: On Michael Webb’s “Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering”
Ezrha Jean Black considers the potential of “Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering” by Michael Webb.
Ezrha Jean BlackMay 4, 2019
Writing “Alongside” — Not “About” — Art: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman talks about her friendship with the late art critic, Craig Owens.
Ross McElwainMay 1, 2019
- Art & Architecture
Office Park: A Review of Amazon’s Spheres
"A kind of emptiness makes the green spaces of The Spheres feel more like a branding move on Amazon’s part than a facility to be used by actual workers."
Sheila LimingApr 26, 2019
Trying to Build the World from Ash: Chris Rush on the Art of Memoir
Grace Hadland interviews artist Chris Rush about his new memoir, “The Light Years,” which details his coming-of-age as a gay man in 1970s suburbia.
Gracie HadlandApr 16, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
A Reluctant Bricolage of the Sublime and the Popular: Eliyahu Fatal’s “Broken Cisterns”
Ben Ratskoff reviews Iraqi-Jewish artist Eliyahu Fatal’s 2018 exhibition in Los Angeles.
Ben RatskoffApr 15, 2019
"#UNLOAD: Guns in the Hands of Artists": Decommissioning Gun Violence
A powerful artistic exploration of the human costs of gun violence.
Constance Valis HillApr 14, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
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