Walter Pichler, “Die Bleche und ich gehen heim” Contemporary Fine Arts / Basel
What’s most striking about “Die Bleche und ich gehen heim” at Contemporary Fine Arts in Basel is how the show handles motion and stillness. This solo…
What Did Happen or What Might Have Happened or What Can Never Happen. Dustin Hodges
In the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–17), two percent of the world’s population vanishes without warning or explanation. The event,…
Tetherings. A Conversation with Mary Stephenson
During our conversation, Mary Stephenson used the phrase “ghost mark” to describe the inerasable traces left by previous marks on her painted…
Valentino’s Baroque Interference
Valentino returned to Rome—not symbolically but materially. The house staged its Fall/Winter 2026–27 show inside Palazzo Barberini, the seventeenth-century baroque…
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Between Ruins: Zazou Roddam
I’ve known Zazou Roddam for almost a decade, long before Roddam considered herself an artist or I was curating. For…
Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou
Oh heart, oh heart, blind like daylight — Dionne Brand [1] [1] Dionne Brand, Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 34. I talk to Anastasia…
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The Space Between. Adam Patrick Grant
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking toward Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely?…
In Medias Res. Sofia Defino Leiby
I first met Sofia Defino Leiby pre-pandemic, on a bus as part of a crowd, and she mentioned that she…
Zurich: Peripheral Presence.
Moving through Zurich — whether on foot, by bicycle, tram, or car — rarely involves a direct or uninterrupted trajectory.…
Madrid: Hypnotic Laugh Track
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.” – David Foster Wallace, Infinite…
Chicago: Model City
“You see the eastern critics and historians that assigned Chicago the place of the skeleton frame, thereby, you know, together…
Same is More: Parisian Architecture à l’identique
For a century, architecture has been a crippled art — every building that has been built proves it; formal combinations…
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Who Are These People? A Conversation with Kai Althoff
Carlo Antonelli: Who are these people, the ones that populates your works? Kai Althoff: They accumulate. Some return more often…
Total Warfare. A Conversation with Luigi Alberto Cippini
Michael Abel: First question — how does Volumes begin? Luigi Alberto Cippini: What I tried to do, within my limitations, was to make something…
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Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…
Are All Crises Equal? A Conversation with MOS’s Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
Michael Abel: Currently, the prevailing mindset within the field of architecture centers on crises. But there is a noticeable disconnect between…
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ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić
Tongue River Theory. davi de jesus do nascimento
Tobias Pils “Shh” mumok / Vienna
Mexico City: El Desagüe
A review within a play. Play by Josiane M.H. Pozi and Emily Pozi
Afterglow. Siyi Li
Accumulation. Ruofan Chen
Cyprien Gaillard, “Wassermusik” / Haus der Kunst, Munich