Walk&Talk Biennial: Gestures of Abundance
For over a decade, Walk&Talk animated the island of São Miguel with its hybrid festival of art, music, and performance…
The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche. Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy’s art often challenges societal norms and expectations through absurd, provocative, and humorous imagery. Even his most disturbing works…
Half-there
For a two-month span at the tail end of 2024, I returned to my childhood home to care for my…
Martina Grlić “Saccharine Idyll” Trotoar / Zagreb
Saccharine Idyll. The words themselves promise a kind of sweetness, a softened image of comfort, the sort of scene that…
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Architectural Universality in the Age of Global Anomie. b+, a case study. With quotes from Olaf Grawert
UNIVERSALITY NOW AND HOW WE GOT PARTICULAR Threats to the security, freedom and dignity of life today from global ecological…
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Almost Nothing
Almost nothing is too much. – Reyner Banham, 19621 It is not uncommon to hear that architecture today has dissolved,…
Race, Property, Rebellion. Cameron Rowland
They remained oblivious to the worlds within worlds that existed just beyond the edge of their awareness and yet were…
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…
ANY: Silvery-Grayish Boxes
If cathode ray blue was the color of the “digital,” and millennial pink that of the “post-digital,” with perhaps a…
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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…
351 SUMMER 2025, Unpack / Reveal / Unleash
The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas
On the Greek island of Tinos, centuries-old dovecotes — white stone towers originally used to harvest pigeon droppings as fertilizer…
350 SPRING 2025, Unpack / Reveal / Unleash
Image Theater Utopia. Kelsey Isaacs
Kelsey Isaacs’s shower floor is home to a sculptural tableau that quite literally sets the stage for a practice in…
349 WINTER 2024-25, Unpack / Reveal / Unleash
(I), Ellipse. B. Ingrid Olson
One image, slid. Something like cleavage, crumpled, diminishes into the groin. One image, synthesized. She is hard, interstice furling interstice,…
348 FALL 2024, Unpack / Reveal / Unleash
Edgeplays. Stanislava Kovalčíková
St. Sebastian is a kinky pussyboy, or a honeytrap. Spank me, Blasphemy! Beamed into a bucolic, peachy saturnalia, his cock-ringed,…
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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The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche. Paul McCarthy
Square One. A conversation with Kate Spencer Stewart
Half-there
Gala Porras-Kim “Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch” Museum of Civilizations, Rome
Don’t Be Alive. Aki Goto
Eros is a verb. Coco Klockner 
Reality Breaks the Frame. Lenard Giller 
Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou