Features
We’re in for Better Wetter
The founder of WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing remembers collaborations with young artists and calling a gondola garage in Venice home.
Poolside Chat
An LA architect and a Palm Springs architectural curator discuss liberated design and pastel color palettes in the American West.
Low Volume
Schindler House (1922), 835 N Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Windows on the World
Architect and artist discuss interdisciplinary collaborations, and their shared interest in the window.
Looking for Black Art in Baltimore
Faced with limited support and resources in their city, artists discuss what it means to leave — and what it means to come home.
Fantasy Art Draft
In Texas, the Dallas Cowboys share a home with world-class works of art; recruited by owners Gene and Jerry Jones, curator Mary Zlot quarterbacks the collection.
What Art Criticism Can Learn From Sports Writing
Sports coverage proposes a balm for overwrought critical prose, and sports psychology as a solution for painter’s block.
13 Ways of Looking at an Olympic Cauldron
An oddity to many, a problem to some, and an icon to few: Atlanta’s Olympic Cauldron, (fondly) revisited.
with photographs by Johnathon Kelso
LINSANITY
An artist processes the enduring impact and evolving mediatized identity of the NBA’s Jeremy Lin—in sports culture, and in his own artistic practice.
Utopia Today
The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia leads London to try mapping the theoretical “nonplace” in history, and in real, urban space.