Bruce Goff Never Belonged to Modernism—And This Exhibition Proves Why
At the Art Institute of Chicago, a long-overdue retrospective reveals an architect who treated materials, music, and identity as instruments of radical design.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Noguchi Envisioned a More Open New York. New York Wasn’t Interested.
Isamu Noguchi became one of the most successful artists of the 20th century, but the city met his plans for public spaces with indifference.
https://nytimes.com/2026/02/26/arts…
The Architectures of Kengo Kuma
“An architecture shaped by human hands gives us comfort and rich experiences,” Kuma says. “I believe that such architecture is more like a living creature than an artificial object. Human hands give life to the building and people are nourished by it.”
https://commonedge.org/the-architec…
To a Green Thought
It’s hard to imagine a smaller thought than a loop of metal wire, the building block for the elegant biomorphic hanging sculptures that remain Asawa’s most famous work.
https://garthgreenwell.substack.com…
‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth Williams
The actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the show.
https://theguardian.com/film/2026/f…
Knowledge Frozen in Stone
Concrete relief murals by artist Gurdon Woods at our future museum site invite reflection on symbolic language and the rhythms of human understanding.
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
A Landscape Artist in Winter
In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
The Interview Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wrestled with my own thoughts and feelings about identity. Why am I, David, the person I am? How changeable is that? Where do those thoughts and feelings come from anyway, and what purposes do they ultimately serve?
https://nytimes.com/2026/02/07/maga…
The Daily Heller: A Visual Dialogue With Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti’s work is vast and multifaceted. He worked with ceramics, concrete, glass, textiles and, of course, paper, drawing, writing books and founding iconic architecture magazines such as Domus.
https://printmag.com/daily-heller/g…
The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe
Cornell’s Urban Design Studio was the invention of a professor who went on to become something of a legend among mavens of design theory and practice.
https://commonedge.org/the-urban-de…
Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game
California’s governor has been touted as the Democrats’ best shot in 2028. But first he’ll need to convince voters that he’s not just a slick establishment politician.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
The Bedazzling, Wild Designs of Modernism’s Forgotten Genius
The architect Bruce Goff built a mind-blowing array of eccentric, occasionally campy buildings, which are featured in a joyful new show.
https://nytimes.com/2026/02/04/arts…
The Complete C Comics
Conceptual art? Fascinating prank? A piss-take on comics? The Collected C Comics, an experimental work from the 1960s, illustrated by Joe Brainard in collaboration with several poets, writers and fellow artists, is all of the above and more.
https://tcj.com/reviews/the-complet…
Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis
Official lyric video.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdpw…
The Shakers’ Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest
A show at ICA Philadelphia joins a surge of Shaker-inspired projects: films, dances, a museum’s expansion. Refracted through new interpreters, Shaker culture bends, and twists.
https://nytimes.com/2026/01/29/arts…
Knitting vs Capitalism: Why Making Things Is Radical
A video!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAnPIub…
Acts of Self-Destruction
On the most irreversible form of dissent, in art and in real life.
https://newyorker.com/culture/criti…
Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
One of my obsessions over the last few years has been the role of attention in modern American politics: the way attention is a fundamental currency, the way it works differently than it did at other times when it was controlled by newspaper editorial boards.
https://nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opin…
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
Last fall, George Saunders was awarded the National Book Foundation’s medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. ...he was called “the ultimate teacher of kindness and of craft.” Pretty good, right? Well, mostly.
https://nytimes.com/2026/01/10/maga…
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
People ask: “Would you or would you not like to be young again?” Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible.
https://themarginalian.org/2025/12/…
Out of Time
On the art of Kerry James Marshall.
https://artforum.com/features/kerry…
As Disney Hall Showed, Frank Gehry’s Los Angeles Was Urban, but Not Urbanist
So often in L.A., historically the capital of cultural artifice, architects use the urban fabric not as a tapestry but simply as a backdrop.
https://commonedge.org/as-disney-ha…
Anselm Kiefer with Michael Auping
Since I want to create a masterpiece, beginning a painting feels often disastrous. It seems impossible.
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/ar…
Becoming a Centenarian
Happy New Year!
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
The World Is Yours. Here, Take It.
Joe Brainard's C Comics ran for only two issues, but it remains a testament to the absorbing pleasure of making art with your friends.
https://poetryfoundation.org/articl…
