Aesthetic Environmentalism
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art struggles to establish the relationship of architecture to the postwar environmental movement and its relevance to our present-day crisis.
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop wrote in one of the great masterpieces of poetry.
Toys & Play
In a 1961 magazine article focused on the exhibition, Mathematica: The World of Numbers…and Beyond, Charles Eames responds to the author’s probing by stating, “Toys are really not as innocent
Are For-Profit Developments Consistent With the Values of a Public University?
I am by no means an expert on public-private partnerships. But for about 10 years, as the University of California Berkeley’s campus planner and then campus architect, I watched these
Abstract Thinking
In his latest treatise, Pier Vittorio Aureli frames architectural production as a stand-in for the much larger and more complex system of economic production as a whole. The problems start
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
To be alive is to marvel — at least occasionally, at least with glimmers of some deep intuitive wonderment — at the Rube Goldberg machine of chance and choice that
bell hooks on Love
“Had I been given a clear definition of love earlier in my life it would not have taken me so long to become a more loving person. Had I shared
Eclipsed in his era, Bayard Rustin gets to shine in ours
The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight.
Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth
“I’m all for heroism,” Marina Abramovic says. “I love heroism.” And at 76, after a long and groundbreaking career, she is largely viewed by the art world in heroic terms.
Agricultural Regeneration
Through centering Black culture, Kamal Bell is reconceiving food systems, inspiring Black youth to farm, and shepherding the future of food justice.
Jeanette Winterson has no idea what happens next
The author and former enfant terrible on life after death, breaking the rules, and forging a self through fiction.