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…
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…
