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…
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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…
Storm Girl. A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
“I alone (well, probably not) know the great secret of this existence, and I’ll have to live out the rest…
How You’re Supposed to Be. A Conversation with Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace makes work by way of accumulation: out of the “ephemera” of living, out of emotional pain, selves and…
Submit to the Black Compost. 1 A Conversation with Rirkrit Tiravanija
I unfolded the letter and read the contents. The letter is a xeroxed copy. The first line of the letter…
Ass to Mouth Forever! A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Engineering school in Mexico, tailoring school in Florence, an apprenticeship with fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in California, followed by the…
Green Pill: Brook Hsu
“Everything is fiction,” Brook Hsu has said, “but fiction is also one of the most powerful things for us to…
Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…