Art & Architecture

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

Escape Artist
Charles Taylor reviews Johnny Moncada’s unseen photographs of Veruschka, the timeless model from the 1960s.
Charles TaylorApr 23, 2014
- Art & Architecture
Walter Benjamin: Writings After Death
In his new collection of essays, “Walter Benjamin” urges that the story of art is one we should abandon, along with art itself.
Rachel WetzlerApr 21, 2014
- Art & Architecture
A Repository of Ideas
Robert Hooke was an integral member of England’s Royal Society — a group of dispersed natural philosophers devoted to what we might now call science.
Jessica KeatingApr 10, 2014
- Art & Architecture
“Walls Are Not Everlasting”: Preserving the East Side Gallery in Berlin
The integrity of the East Side Gallery, an especially artistic section of the Berlin Wall, is under threat. Should it be saved?
Esther YiDec 19, 2013
- Around the World
- Art & Architecture
Three Questions for Ramón García
Daniel A. OlivasDec 15, 2013
- Art & Architecture
Making the Modern Museum
The rise of the art museum in the United States through the eyes of J. Carter Brown.
Ed SchadDec 9, 2013
- Art & Architecture
“I will not act before understanding. Context is everything.”: The Work of Alfredo Jaar
One of Latin America’s great contemporary artists delves into how we get to know the world around us.
Elena ShtrombergDec 8, 2013
- Art & Architecture
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel, Part 2
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
- Art & Architecture
- Philosophy & Religion
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel, Part 3
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
- Art & Architecture
- Philosophy & Religion
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
Joseph LuzziJun 26, 2012
- Art & Architecture
Art Book: Robert Seydel’s “Book of Ruth”
"Even the 'author photograph' at the end of the book is another collage."
Jocelyn HeaneyMay 20, 2012
- Art & Architecture
The Mastery of Non-Mastery
a narrative that, even when circling away to the streets of Paris or the souks of Tangiers, continually spirals back to the figures by the roadside
Jennifer WallaceMar 30, 2012