I've enrolled in my first online course: The Architectural Imagination, offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I completed…
Hanne Darboven and the Endless Archive
Cynthia Cruz sees a lot of Walter Benjamin in Hanne Darboven's Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983, currently on exhibit at Dia:Chelsia. The exhibit…
An American Albert Speer Might Look a Lot Like Philip Johnson
Ian Volner laments how American culture has produced only one fascist with any real panache–Philip Johnson. [I]n our present political…
The Art of Wall Along the Mexican Border
Donald Trump is about to order the building of a wall along the US-Mexican border. As people who live in…
The Literature of Traumas to Come: The Novel in the Age of Trump
In the days leading up to the election last November, many people vowed if Donald Trump was elected they…
The Landscapes of John Berger
Late in his career John Berger retreated in the foggy mists of the French countryside, reappearing every so often with…
Reading Cities as a Flâneuse
You were drawn to many cities but Paris is very much central. Given the overlap between existing places and the…
The Destiny-Filled Glare of Napoléon
One of the lasting impressions left by Abel Gance’s film Napoléon (1927), now showing in a new, digitally remastered print…
Marketing at the Limits of Language
It’s a strange kind of language, all modifiers bleached lifeless by cliché, employing the most grandiose terms (‘discover,’ ‘transformational,’ ‘revolution’)…
A Data Visualization of One’s Own
The 2016 election cast Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec's Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Data in an entirely…
One-Way Street 