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Performances rule the day at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Performance has been the breakout surprise of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. While many of the works inside the Chicago Cultural Center grapple with issues of urbanism, politics, and the resonances...
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Theaster Gates opens Stony Island Arts Bank at Chicago Architecture Biennial
If you’re in town for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, be sure to visit the newly-opened Stony Island Arts Bank, a formerly derelict 1923 bank structure on Chicago’s South Side that has been...
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Kissing Constructs: Barbara Kasten’s surreal photography at the Chicago...
Thursday night, Barbara Kasten’s first major retrospective opened at the Graham Foundation as an offsite event of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Set in the Madlener house, a turn-of-the century...
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Error 404: Building not found: Artist builds glitch art architecture in...
In Basel, Switzerland, there’s a building that, at first glance, appears to be a little, well, off. Focus your attention and you will indeed see a building that has been designed to look like a glitch....
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The 2015 Alice Award winner for graphic publishing documents the open road
Now in its third year, the Alice Award has announced that The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip written by David Campany and published by Aperture (New York), is its 2015 winner....
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London’s Frieze Art Fair opens a second pavilion by Universal Design Studio...
The Frieze Art Fair looks to capitalize on the 55,000 people who thronged a pavilion by Universal Design Studio (UDS) last year by commissioning another. The five-day festival is held in Regent’s Park,...
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Storefront’s Critical Halloween to explore the idea of “DEMO” at a historic...
This October, the Storefront for Art and Architecture will host its annual Critical Halloween party in tandem with its ever-fascinating costume competition. The event will be held at the historic DCTV...
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Hammer Museum Announces Expansion into Occidental Petroleum Tower
A bigger Hammer is happening in Westwood. The museum just announced that the museum a 99-year lease and will be expanding into 40,000 square feet of gallery and support space. In addition to remaining...
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30 Years in the making, land artist Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto in Sicily...
Memorializing the quiet town of Gibellina that was destroyed by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in 1968, Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto has finally been completed after some 30 years of planning. Occupying...
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Take a tour inside Snøhetta’s SFMOMA before it opens in May 2016
“The building is not static—it is designed to gracefully mature over time as life and art move forward together,” said Snøhetta’s Craig Dykers poetically wrapped up his opening remarks at the...
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Theaster Gates’ ‘Sanctum,’ a 552-hour continuous performance, will run...
Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates launched Sanctum, a 24-day performance in Bristol, England that will have continuous programming 24 hours a day. Gates set the performance in Temple Church, a...
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Sou Fujimoto’s search for lightness at the Chicago Architectural Biennial
Just like every other major architectural exhibition, the Chicago Architecture Biennial is a massive undertaking filled with large scale models, full size mock- ups and room sized installations....
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Tigerman’s Epiphany: New photomontage update of “Titanic” unveiled at the...
On October 22nd, marking the 130th anniversary of the Chicago Architecture Club and as part of the ongoing Chicago Architecture Foundation‘s Currencies of Architecture exhibition, Stanley Tigerman...
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On View> The Cooper Union presents “Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky & the...
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky & the Architectural Association Cooper Union 30 Cooper Square, New York Through November 25, 2015 Boasting a remarkable array of artwork from both past and...
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Collective–LOK steals hearts to win 2016 Times Square Valentine Heart Design...
The Times Square Alliance takes “I ♥ New York” quite literally. For the past eight years, the nonprofit organization has invited architecture and design firms to create public art that responds to a...
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Aarhus Bling: James Turrell working with Schmidt Hammer Lassen to design ARoS...
While the world has been discussing how much Drake’s “Hotline Bling” music video borrowed from James Turrell’s installations (Hint: a lot*), ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark announced that the artist...
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On View> Cao Fei’s “Shadow Plays” explores the rapid pace of Chinese development
Cao Fei: Shadow Plays The Mistake Room 1811 E. 20th St., Los Angeles Through November 21, 2015 Cao Fei’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Shadow Plays, features a chaotic conglomerate of...
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Everybody Dance Now: Steven Holl collaborates for dance at the Chicago...
One of the more unusual things I heard when preparing for the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) was a tip from someone involved that there was going to be “a ballet about Steven Holl.” I was...
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Cecil Balmond to design sculpture honoring Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in...
Soon a Cecil Balmond sculpture will grace Santa Monica Boulevard. The Farhang Foundation announced that the British hyphenate—artist-architect-engineer—is the winner of Freedom: A Shared Dream, an...
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Selldorf-designed Hauser Wirth & Schimmel to open in Los Angeles with a...
The March 2016 opening of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s Arts District complex is getting closer and the gallery just announced its inaugural Los Angeles exhibition: Revolution in the Making: Abstract...
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