Interview
Everything is Connected
Buildings are for people; architectural photography is portraiture; walking is a way of seeing; and John C. Portman is your architect.
Samson Young:
Songs For Disaster Relief
Do they know it’s Christmas? Yes, they do. Charity jingles chart the rise of neoliberalism at the Hong Kong pavilion in Venice.
Luftmensch
The New York Public Library’s “Curator of Public Curiosity” on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question.
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.
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.
Flow Through: Bahar Yürükoğlu
Processing the politics of “a timeless, borderless place,” an artist proposes a new mythology.
The Good Soil: Michael John Whelan
Photographing the Global Seed Vault, an artist experiences “a sobering feeling of inescapability” at the junction of geological past and humanity’s future physical fragility.
Four Edges of Pyramiden: Ieva Epnere
A woman in a blue dress “symbolizes the Russian ‘dream’ of an ideal state or place on earth.”