#40
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- Samuel Medina
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- Seth Thompson
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Articles
In New York City, real estate plays double duty, and apartments turn into art galleries.
Marcel Breuer’s museum on Madison opened our eyes to the sublime. Let’s not look away now.
“What would happen if we foregrounded human values in the creation of our systems?”
Asset managers and AI are here for the design media’s copper wire.
Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry
Applying universal suffrage to economics.
Reviews
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face by Julia Bryan-Wilson. Yale University Press, 352 pp., $60.
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury by Shirley Reece-Hughes. Yale University Press, 208 pp., $50.
For Louise Nevelson, imitation was an affirmation that her style was worth repeating.
After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek. Verso, 288 pp., $27.
Do you believe in life after work?
Old Buildings, New Ideas: A Selective Architectural History of Additions, Adaptations, Reuse and Design Invention by Françoise Astorg Bollack. RIBA Publishing, 176 pp., $48.
Our built heritage should not become fossils enshrined in amber, but fertile, motley canvases on which to build anew.
Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light by Cole Stangler. The New Press, 304 pp., $27.
The City of Light still has some fight left in it.
Sleep No More is on at the McKittrick Hotel through May 27.
The cast changes; the choreography stays the same; what holds infinite interest at Sleep No More is being there.
Perfect Days, directed by Wim Wenders, was given a limited North American release in February.
What should we expect from narratives about civic infrastructure?
The Advanced School of Collective Feeling by Nile Greenberg and Matthew Kennedy. Park Books, 176 pp., $40.
Funny ideas hitch a ride on rivulets of sweat.
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, organized by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer with Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez and Imani Williford, was on view at the Brooklyn Musuem from November 17, 2023, to March 31, 2024.
Black-and-white xeroxed collages given away for free, or highly-curated, glossy magazine–style publications, or anything in between.
Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity by Mario Carpo. MIT Press, 208 pp., $30.
Beyond Digital has an epochal story to tell.
The Robert Olnick Pavilion at the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring New York, was designed by Alberto Campo Baeza and MQArchitecture. It opened last fall.
Conceptual art and contemporary architecture lack the beguiling allure I find in brazen displays of Americana.
