Art & Architecture

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

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
Calisthenics at Thomas Duncan Gallery
Rachel Elizabeth Jones writes about Matt Paweski's show "Calisthenics" at Thomas Duncan's space on Melrose.
Rachel Elizabeth JonesOct 17, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Living Space: Socialist Blocks as Homes
Socialist blocks as they stand today are not dead and decaying. They are regularly remolded by the changing communities that inhabit them.
Mirela IvanovaOct 10, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
Still Radical 25 Years On
The shock we experience reading Karen Finley’s "Shock Treatment" is, ironically enough, less than the shock its narrator is forced to endure.
Nathan SmithSep 27, 2015
- Art & Architecture
What does it mean when we do it like this?
"You Who Read Me with Passion Must Now Forever Be My Friends" arrives at a moment when women decades younger than Iannone need someone to show them out of this maze.
Catherine WagleySep 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
The Image of Genre
Reading an artist's novel is often a kind of aesthetic or intellectual work rather than a leisure activity.
Lucy IvesSep 13, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Literary Criticism
The Feminism of Resilience: Shirin Neshat at the Hirshhorn
The exhibition "Facing History: Shirin Neshat" provokes a more complex conversation about Iran and the United States than has been possible in decades past.
Rafia ZakariaSep 12, 2015
- Art & Architecture
The Ideology of the Everyday: The Wende Museum’s “Face to Face” Exhibition
The Wende Museum's exhibition "Face to Face" juxtaposes official products of Socialist Realism with works by artists working outside of Communist Party parameters.
Oleg IvanovAug 29, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- History