What Should We Do About Problematic Monuments?
Two views on controversial public art in an age of social change.
What Susan Sontag wanted for women
A new collection reveals a world view haunted by death — and the prospect of liberation.
Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.
Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it?
Consider the 15 mph City
Walkable urbanism needs local mobility. We need to turn our idea of regional transit inside out, making local access as important a goal for it as geographic reach and point-to-point
A Drawing, Not a Picture
If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?
“Tight and Small and Figurative”: Tom Wesselmann’s Early Collages
Susan Davidson, editor of the forthcoming monograph on the Great American Nudes, a series of works by Tom Wesselmann, explores the artist’s early experiments with collage, tracing their development from humble
Joan Baez Is Still Doing Beautiful, Cool Stuff
At eighty-two, the folk singer has a new book of drawings and sleeps on a mattress in a tree.
Back to the Future
At the National Theatre, on London’s Southbank, a new restaurant named after Brutalist pioneer Sir Denys Lasdun has been remastered for the 21st century by the Guild of St Luke.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability
We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.
Mass Support
Dutch architect John Habraken saw the potential of industrialized building to foster flexibility in housing design and increase inhabitants’ agency in decision-making about their own homes.
Everything Is (Not) Architecture: Environmental Design and Architecture’s Slippery Slope
There’s no shortage of slippery slopes in the architectural lexicon: “architectural” and “architectonic” hover near the top of the list.
Did OpenAI just have its ‘App Store’ moment?
OpenAI’s plugins could represent the second major phase in the rise of AI chatbots.