Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas Anticipated the Age of Infographics
For the inner modernist cartographer in all of us!
Glenn Ligon
For over 30 years, the artist has been making work that speaks to American history — ambiguous, open-ended, existentially observant.
Documenting the Complex History of America’s Braceros
In 2017, agricultural workers who entered the United States through the 1942 Bracero Program returned to El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the program’s 75th anniversary.
In Portland, the Adidas Village Connects Creativity, Community, and Sport
Our pals at O + A team with LEVER for a new adidas HQ.
Preparing For The Future Of Work: Mark Harbick of FCA On The Top Five Trends To Watch In The Future Of Work
My good friend Mark Harbick is interviewed by Authority magazine.
Building a Beacon of Hope on Chicago’s South Side: The Obama Presidential Center
We want everyday visitors to the museum to see themselves reflected back in this programming and see the ways that we can all collectively make change, however large or however
At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor
Resisting carceral power in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District
Jasper Johns Remains Contemporary Art’s Philosopher King
A major retrospective shows that the ninety-one-year-old artist’s greatness endures.
The Subversive Urbanism of Pixar Movies
For anyone who has weathered the pandemic while simultaneously raising a toddler: I feel your pain.
How Designing and Writing Are More Alike Than You Think
What does it mean to call yourself both a designer and a writer?
Greta Magnusson Grossman: Living in a Modern Way
To position the legacy of a prolific but neglected designer within the modernist canon, we need first to scrutinize that canon from a gender-critical, feminist perspective.
The Case for Building More Mid-Sized Housing in our Cities
Planning cities and the way that we comfortably live in them is often a pull between many things.
Spinning yarns with Sheila Hicks
The studio is luminous, compact, tiled with the clay hexagons more commonly found further south, and in this honeycomb frame a hum of rapt activity is rising.
Extinct
What does the disappearance of once popular or ubiquitous objects — ranging in scale from tools and equipment to structures and infrastructures — tell us about the world we have
The Academy Museum is open, but its standout gesture rings hollow
From Los Angeles Mimi Zeiger weighs in on bubbles and foam and the former May Co.
Who Designed This? Signe Mayfield on the Exhibition Designer Ted Cohen
Ted Cohen’s elaborate credits at the end of Signe Mayfield’s recent book, The Object in its Place: Ted Cohen & The Art of Exhibition Design, acknowledges Cohen’s understanding that even