Anti-Composition BBM
ANTI-COMPOSITION IS A COLLECTION OF NOTES AND STREAMS ON THE RADICAL DISCONNECTION AND NECESSARY DISTANCE NEW ARCHITECTURE MUST RETAIN FROM…
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System Failure. Maren Karlson
It’s easy to forget that painting itself is a technology, but before the arrival of photography, painting possessed the unique…
Young Men’s Games. Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney’s latest film, Secondary (2023), builds to a single moment — a balletic reenactment of the infamous 1978 American…
Live Forever. Anicka Yi
YOU HAVE TO LET GO OF THE PAST Anicka Yi often collaborates with biologists, chemists, engineers, and other specialists. For…
Manufactured Innocence: A Roundtable with TWIST and Students from SCI-Arc. A Conversation with Ari Diamond-Topelson, Reed Donaldson, William Madsen, and Maria Kuraeva.
1996. A dimly lit table. A blacked-out television studio. The Charlie Rose Show. A talk show host and three young…
Between Jurassic Cocoons and Dry-Aged Anal Beads. Eva Fàbregas
A colony of massive, spherical forms infiltrates the panopticon architecture of M|A|C Mataró, a former prison turned art museum…
Hopkins House: Notes on HT Architecture
High Stakes Michael Hopkins, together with his wife Patty, designed a steel, aluminum, and glass house. Housing the practice and…
In the Cut. Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo’s work is uncompromisingly and unapologetically confrontational. Sifting through images in colonial archives, magazines, Tumblr, eBay, Renaissance paintings, B…
Of Shadows. Sandra Mujinga
Time as a passage. History as landscaping. Society as malaise. Bodies as construction sites. Language as technology. Nature as not…
SCAD Museum: Disrupting the White Cube
At the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art, curators will agree that the Pamela Elaine Poetter Gallery…
Echoes in the Garden: Marina Xenofontos
Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? — T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” (1936) A beat bounces off a…
Fantasies of Value: Sara Cwynar
Like most disasters, it’s said the day was cloudless. It’s June 11, 1955, at 6:25 p.m. at the 24 Hours…
Bruce Graham Residence: A Matter of Proportion
I should start out by stating that I have never been to Bruce Graham’s house. I hadn’t heard of it…
Mortal Machines: Mire Lee
Deep down, bodies are messy. Really messy. Filthy, sweaty, and grimy. All the soaps, creams, pastes, and perfumes can scrub…
Glory Whole. Jack O’Brien
Jack O’Brien is a master of the tease. Though culturally laden with sexual connotations, its potency is driven less by…
John Winter House: North London Gothic
Early on a recent spring morning, I tucked my trouser legs into my socks, hopped on my bicycle, and started…