Notes From the Venice Biennale, Past and Present
Unlike professions such as medicine, accounting, or law, architecture has a high culture. By this I mean an indulgence in exhibition making, publishing, and archiving—in possessing its own rarified curators.
https://commonedge.org/notes-from-t…
Cancer Stole Her Voice. Curse Words, Children’s Books and AI Saved It
Our good friend Sonya Sotinsky was profiled on KQED. She took the tough lessons of her career as an architect to share what she learned from her cancer experience. Finding your voice has all kinds of meaning.
https://kqed.org/science/1996818/sh…
Pepe Mujica: My Generation Made a Naive Error
The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/pepe-mu…
Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)
The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park.
https://nytimes.com/2025/05/08/arts…
Learning How to Talk About Architecture on Social Media
For my communication compadres...
https://commonedge.org/learning-how…
The Interview: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
I love Ocean Vuong.
https://nytimes.com/2025/05/03/maga…
Architectural Innovations at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition: Three Modernist Landmarks
For you fans of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
https://docomomo-noca.org/features/…
In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life
When my mother needed care, we went through several places before we settled on a board & care which seemed to be the best option.
https://theguardian.com/society/ng-…
Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion
Can this be heard by my audience?
https://nybooks.com/online/2025/04/…
Caught Between Two Worlds, an Artist Prepares for His Biggest Show Yet
As Salman Toor’s work has become more politically conflicted and emotionally raw, he finds himself wondering, “What am I doing here in America?”
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/28/arts…
Altadena: Four Stories
For three weeks in January, the Eaton Fire raced through the small community of Altadena, California, destroying more than 9,000 buildings and killing eighteen people. Afterward, we invited four writers, all longtime local residents, to share memories, and photographs, of what burned, and what didn’t.
https://placesjournal.org/article/p…
The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk
As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede…
Notes to John
Yes, it's about Joan Didion.
https://airmail.news/issues/2025-4-…
Our Buildings, Our Selves, With Guests Paul Goldberger and Zach Mortice
Listen up!
https://commonedge.org/episode-3-ou…
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
This is delicious.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
An Interview with Margot Douaihy
An interview with a new mystery writer.
https://frictionlit.org/an-intervie…
Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim
The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic flux of a 25-year career, and a sense of healing.
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts…
What Do You Remember?
The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.
https://newyorker.com/culture/open-…
MYTH: “AI Governance is Just for Nerds”
Why and How Architects Can and Should Participate in A.I. Governance
https://ericjcesal.substack.com/p/m…
Curator Alex Tieghi-Walker on Loewe Teapots and Late Nights in Milano
Fun at tea time.
https://interviewmagazine.com/art/c…
Writer Anne Carson: Life is Not Fair
In this rare interview, renowned poet and essayist Anne Carson, known for her unorthodox blending of genres and forms, reflects on her approach to writing and touches on themes of memory, autofiction, and her recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ksH3FIs…
Helping Queer Seniors Age in Place – and in Community
For my housing pals.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
What We Knew Without Knowing
Notes to John Gregory Dunne.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/04/arts…
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
Hrag Vartanian interviews the artist in his Chicago studio about his childhood, his evolving craft, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.
https://hyperallergic.com/995471/ni…
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy
In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede…
