Art & Architecture

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

Encountering Weegee: On Christopher Bonanos’s “Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous”
Geoff Nicholson exposes himself to “Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous” by Christopher Bonanos.
Geoff NicholsonAug 6, 2018
- Art & Architecture
More Than a Body: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
All of Ivan Albright’s portraiture contains the same obsessively rendered detail and relentless fascination with how grotesque the human body can be.
Elena Comay del JuncoJul 28, 2018
- Art & Architecture
The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York
A portrait of punk-era New York’s art and music scenes.
Anthony MostromJul 25, 2018
David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?
Shehryar FazliJul 22, 2018
Liking Andy Warhol: An Interview with Jonathan Flatley
Felix Bernstein interviews Jonathan Flatley about his new book, “Like Andy Warhol,” a study that reframes how we think about Warhol’s affect and queerness.
Felix BernsteinJul 20, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Gender & Sexuality
Still Happening: A Conversation with Ed Sanders
Jennifer Seaman Cook interviews Ed Sanders, a major figure in the Beat and counterculture movements.
Jennifer Seaman CookJul 18, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Archiving Revolution on 858.ma
Perwana Nazif discusses 858.ma, the Egyptian Revolution, and the radical potential in poor sound.
Perwana NazifJul 16, 2018
- Around the World
- Art & Architecture
The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene, Part III: A Conversation with Helen Phillips, Amitav Ghosh, and Nathan Kensinger
Amy Brady of “Guernica” magazine presents the third conversation in the series “The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene.”
Amy BradyJul 10, 2018
Photo Synthesis: Authoring Our Lives in the Age of Instagram
The psychology that pushes us to make pictures, a psychology that Susan Sontag laid bare in 1977, seems to have reached new levels of pathology in 2018.
Gideon JacobsJun 30, 2018
- Art & Architecture
Unpacking Murad Osmann’s #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series
As Instagram becomes more and more prominent as a form of aspirational self-advertising, we must take seriously its images as cultural objects.
Deborah KriegerJun 30, 2018
- Around the World
- Art & Architecture
“Color of Reality”: Jon Boogz, Lil Buck, and Black Lives in Livid Color
"Color of Reality" is a eulogy for all black men who dare step into three-dimensionality.
Constance Valis HillJun 26, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Film
Tools for Tots: On Alexandra Lange’s “The Design of Childhood”
Allyn West reviews “The Design of Childhood,” an exploration of the material conditions of childhood by architectural critic Alexandra Lange.
Allyn WestJun 21, 2018
- Art & Architecture