Review
Andrei Molodkin: Fallout Pattern
With the specter of alleged Russian cyber-espionage still haunting the current US administration, global paranoia reshapes itself, attuning to the...
Designing Playful Cities
“People tend to forget that play is serious.” This quote is one of several printed in large block letters for...
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
Undeniably, Africa is a diverse and vibrant continent, creating art, fashion, architecture, and designs unique to an African experience that...
Sabine Gruffat: A Kiss of the Earth
On view at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is Sabine Gruffat’s A Kiss of the Earth (August...
Prospect.4:
The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
When the first in November 2008, it premiered as a large-scale event in the tradition of the São Paulo or...
Architecture Is All Over
Architecture is everywhere. And architecture is, as we know it, dead. These are the dual, competing claims of Architecture Is All...
Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography, 2001 – 2017
In 1854 Albert Berg published a series of lithographs titled Physiognomy of Tropical Vegetation in South America. Inspired by the...
It Can Howl
Roots, TV monitors, a concrete dog, piled bricks, a “welcome” sign, Rubbermaid trashcans, and enamelware bowls stuffed with fake food...
The Present in Drag
Taking place in Berlin this summer is The Present in Drag, the city’s ninth biennial (BB9), this year curated by New...
Art of the Airport Tower
The show and its accompanying text are a romance and an instructive meditation on the complex phenomenon of air traffic control, and on the sites of its performance.