Opinion on parametricism
Parametricism can never become a dominant architecture style now that the forces of capitalism are no longer interested in the lives of the masses, writes Douglas Spencer.
https://dezeen.com/2026/05/11/dougl…
The Trouble With Architectural Publishing
During the 1970s, Postmodernism briefly put architecture on the front page of Time and caught the attention of many who had never considered how buildings change cities and people.
https://commonedge.org/the-trouble-…
Open and shut case
Much of Geoffrey Bawa’s design is about the interplay between interior space and exterior setting.
https://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation
A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests.
https://theguardian.com/music/2026/…
Why Do We Want to Float? The Psychology of Lightness in Architecture
In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth.
https://archdaily.com/1040611/why-d…
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with Charles M. Schultz
If one were to make a tally of artists who have the longevity to work for more than half a century, it would be a short list. Dorothea Rockburne would be on it. She’d also be the first to say, “Who cares?”
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/04/ar…
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret
It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
6 Famously Controversial Works of Art
Called indecent or worse upon their debut, these pieces pushed audiences to reconsider what makes an artwork worthy of public consumption.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
A Conversation With James Wines: “Put Art Where You Least Expect It”
Wines describes himself as an “environmental artist,” which hints at the probing and incessantly curious nature of his careerlong explorations.
https://commonedge.org/a-conversati…
Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide
A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.
https://placesjournal.org/article/o…
Orlando Reade and Ariana Reines
A conversation about art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2…
Hunky Jesus (BFI Flare 2026) — Balm For The Soul
Documentaries often leave audiences with negative feelings. Fear, anger, despair. Feelings that we need to face in order to enact action and change with authoritarianism on the rise across the globe. But in the age of constant doomscrolling, the effects become numbing. Trust Hunky Jesus to offer an alternative: enacting change through laughter, love and community.
https://filmhounds.co.uk/2026/03/29…
Lucy Sante on Collage: ‘You Have to Kill One Thing to Make Another.’
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
https://nytimes.com/2026/04/01/arts…
An AI Strategy Isn’t Enough.
Why You Need to Rethink Strategy in the Age of AI.
https://ericjcesal.substack.com/p/a…
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights.
https://theguardian.com/books/2026/…
Trump’s Proposed White House Expansion Debases Classical Architecture
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger is one of many who have raised their voices in alarm at the way President Trump is proposing to alter and add to the White House.
https://commonedge.org/trumps-propo…
‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump
The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories.
https://theguardian.com/books/2026/…
Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.
https://newyorker.com/culture/posts…
A Home That Became Lovelier the More It Fell Apart
The ravages of time have only increased the appeal of one family’s art-filled manor in the English countryside.
https://nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t-ma…
Who built Case Study House #16?
ON A MARCH NIGHT in my first spring in Los Angeles, a rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base and left a glowing, smoky arc in the air high over the Pacific Ocean.
https://nyra.nyc/articles/cold-case
In Shaker Design, a Zeal for No Zeal
Straight chairs, whirling dances: The austere craftsmanship of this disappearing group is as striking as their ecstatic worship, on view at ICA Philadelphia.
https://nytimes.com/2026/03/12/arts…
Eugène Atget’s Epic Record of Time and Place
An exhibit of the French artist’s work at the I.C.P. shows how he taught photography to be specific.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
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…
