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They proved American socialism was possible, at least in microcosm.

Art can serve as both a necessary reprieve in a deeply fraught time and as a catalyst for change, inviting us to see things just a bit differently.

After years of trying, I finally feel at home in queer spaces.

The exhibition’s global scope is commendable, but, in spite of itself, all roads in “Clamor” lead west.

An exhibition devoted to the experimental French architect Claude Parent strikes a balance between his tough-minded seriousness and inspired lunacy.

MoMA’s latest exhibition seeks to amend the architectural canon the museum had a major hand in packing.

There was no heroic image of housing design to be had in “Reset: Towards a New Commons,” and this was precisely its strength.

  • Paris, 13th District directed by Jacques Audiard

When everything is on fire, why worry about the little ember of a problem inside you?

Zoe Zenghelis, a founder of OMA, now finds delight in delicacies of color.

A new volume claims to present a representative slice of contemporary “progressive” architecture. But why this architecture now?

  • Cairo Modern, curated by Mohamed Elshahed, ran at the Center for Architecture in New York from October 1, 2021 to January 22, 2022

Mohamed Elshahed’s quest to save Egypt’s architectural patrimony

  • The Chicago Architecture Biennial: The Available City ran from September 1 to December 31, 2021.

Can the Chicago Architecture Biennial be remade into an institution of critique? The Available City answers with a “maybe.”

  • Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta, was released in the US in August 2021.

Candyman’s 2021 adaptation is a distinct type of architecture-bound horror, where space is violated as spectacularly as the slashed bodies of murder victims.

An overlooked classic by Charles Jencks finds the serial taxonomist in top form.

The architecture of the stage is neither purely image nor purely space, but rather something tenuous that falls in between.