Art & Architecture

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

Kahlil Joseph’s Double Conscience: A Contemporary Spiritual
"Double Conscience," Kahlil Joseph's video project, is an elegant illustration of poverty, inner-city turmoil, and their multilayered impact on a community.
China AdamsAug 11, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Ellipsis: Pablo Rasgado at the Steve Turner Gallery
Ellipsis, the latest exhibit of Pablo Rasgado, revises archives of duration and location and contemplates the ephemeral.
Clayton CampbellAug 1, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Inconvenient Truths at LACMA: Sweeping Debt, Dealmaking, and Dubious Design under the Red Carpet
Joseph GiovanniniJul 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Ai Weiwei Reconsiders Himself
Ai Weiwei rebels against the idea the art matters less than the persona and views of the artist himself.
Rebecca LiaoJul 10, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Building Beyond Capitalism
"Was (is) there something in it that suggests ways of building cities outside of capitalism?"
Ben PaynterJul 4, 2015
- Around the World
- Art & Architecture
The Afterlife of a Manuscript
“A scholarly whodunit” of Michelangelo, Nazis, and safe-cracking
Emily J. LevineJun 25, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- History
A View from Alcatraz: For Ahmed Douma
Since September 2014, Alcatraz has been home to an exciting new exhibition by renowned contemporary artist Ai Weiwei.
Annie BuckleyJun 2, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
A Wandering Will: Mary Reid Kelley Discusses Swinburne’s “Pasiphae”
Mary Reid Kelley's nine-minute melodrama, for which Swinburne’s text serves as the screenplay, is the second in a trilogy of films based loosely on the story of the Minotaur (the monstrous fruit of Pasiphae’s lust), made in collaboration with artist Patrick Kelley.
James CahillMay 25, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Unpacking the Museum: Renzo Piano’s American Museums and His New Whitney
Piano’s Whitney Museum is open, accessible, energized, urban, and fun.
Joseph GiovanniniMay 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
The Destruction of Art and Antiquities in Our Time
The threat to antiquities today is far greater from projects for dams, airports, parking lots, and the rest of the activities of modernization than targeted wholesale devastation.
Frederick BohrerMay 14, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Recognizing Complicity
"Modernism was not an idea, not a singular and well-formed position. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of its dimensions have to be addressed."
Johanna Drucker May 3, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- History
Revisiting Gordon Parks’s “Segregation Story” 60 Years Later
To see Gordon Parks's images from "Segregation Story" today is to be left emotionally bereft, to gasp at the facts of an all-too-recent history, to shudder at how far we have not come.
Lilly LampeApr 22, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies