Art
The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
Architecture
Art
Yale's Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."
Art
Boston Artist Builds "Smallest House in the World," Rents It on Airbnb
By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?
Art
Architecture's Impenetrable Imagery and Rarely Seen Machinery
BERLIN — The interplay of flatness and dimensionality in Franka Hörnschemeyer’s site-specific installations yields images seemingly more penetrable than the adjacent structures.
Art
An Icon of Midcentury Organic Modern Architecture Is Destroyed
A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.
Books
The Forgotten Artistic Playgrounds of the 20th Century
The Playground Project explores an era of artistic play.
News
A Noguchi Ceiling in a U-Haul Showroom Is Restored to Its Former Glory
In the 1940s, artist Isamu Noguchi experimented with a series of "lunar landscapes," embedding lights in undulating magnesite cement. While some were freestanding sculptures, three were site-specific pieces installed in two buildings and a boat. This month, the only one of these architectural projec
Art
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Manhattan’s Psycho Summer
New York City is creeping towards a psycho kind of summer.
Art
Grafting Puerto Rican Architecture onto the Lower East Side
Edra Soto attempts architectural transplants the way a doctor might replace skin, seeing if an unfamiliar addition will take.
Art
Holdouts: The Solitary Resisters of Real Estate
For all his money and power, Donald Trump couldn't force a widow from her New Jersey home back in the 1990s.
Books
Uncovering a Manifesto in the Blog of Visionary Architect Lebbeus Woods
From 2007 to 2012, the late architect Lebbeus Woods kept a blog that offered a peek into the mind of one of our most visionary contemporary creators.
In Brief
1,300 Intimate Images of Midcentury Modernist Structures Go Online
The University of Southern California Libraries have digitized roughly 1,300 rare photographs of midcentury modernism in the American West, as documented by two of its insiders.