Art & Architecture

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

Acts of Will: Art, AIDS, America
"Art, AIDS, America" at the Tacoma Art Museum, October 3, 2015 to January 10, 2016
Elizabeth PenceDec 23, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Just Subtract Water: The Los Angeles River and a Robert Moses with the Soul of a Jane Jacobs
A reinvented Los Angeles River could act as both an urban spine and civic plaza, organizing and linking the communities it crosses.
Joseph GiovanniniDec 18, 2015
- Art & Architecture
An Urban History: The Influence of Street Gangs on Contemporary Art
The influence of street gang culture on art in Los Angeles has been systematically underrepresented by academia and art history.
Rodrigo Ribera d’EbreDec 14, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Dispatches from a Dematerialized World: Joseph Cornell at the Royal Academy
In a period when digital archives produce instant nostalgia, Cornell's invocations of "the light of other days" seem both relevant and innocent.
Dan BarrowNov 15, 2015
- Art & Architecture
What Does Tom Mitchell Want?
Mitchell wants to discuss and describe how we experience (imagine) the world through images and as an image.
Jeremy Gilbert-RolfeNov 14, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Broad Appeal: The Gateway Museum
The Broad is like a gateway drug.
Shana Nys DambrotNov 6, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Beyond The Broad: A Better Paradigm Is Possible
Tucker NeelNov 6, 2015
- Art & Architecture
A Deep but Unstable Joy: Gazing at Agnes Martin
A much-repeated idea about a Martin painting is that it isn’t reproducible in print.
Jane Yong KimNov 5, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Midcentury California Cohousing
Crestwood Hills is the only successful, large-scale, modern cooperative housing development in the western United States.
Lyra KilstonOct 22, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography
Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature.
Jonathan Russell ClarkOct 20, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Literary Fiction
The Desert Threshold
If we view the notion of climate change from the point of view of colonial history we can see countless examples of climate change engineered as a project.
George ProchnikOct 18, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Punctuation: Anselm Kiefer’s Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99
Trinie Dalton writes about the concepts of artistic identity, preoccupation, and engrossment in Anselm Kiefer's "Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99."
Trinie DaltonOct 17, 2015
- Art & Architecture