Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist on June 13, 2008 at the Van Alen Institute. Photo by Patrick Hannaway, Courtesy of Van Alen Institute. Switzerland's Hans Ulrich Obrist may well be the curators' curator. In the past fifteen years, he…
A new film on Herzog & de Meuron's Olympic architecture has its New York premiere.
A museum expansion in Amsterdam showcases the role of the architectural model.
An architect transforms a city street into a glowing outdoor museum.
It's time for a road trip with the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Don't forget to pack the Purell.
A collaborative arts event proves that creativity can come without a cost.
An architectural exhibition in San Jose turns the urban experience on its head.
WORK Architecture Company unveils its urban oasis at P.S. 1.
A new happening at the New York design shop Kiosk asks for your tired, your poor, your huddled plastic bags.
Russ Leland donates Schindler's Fitzpatrick House to L.A.'s MAK Center.
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto launches a new exhibition about the morphing city of Shanghai.
A museum in Massachusetts celebrates the best of the worst and they need your help.
A new exhibition examines our relationship with real estate.
An outdoor art project draws attention to the High Line.
It was gray all over New York City yesterday morning, except perhaps on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The latest splashy sculptures in Jeff Koons’s Celebration series make their debut at the museum today, and yesterday the…
Everyone’s favorite avant-garde gallery, SoHo’s Storefront for Art and Architecture, brought out the LA crowds for their first-ever Pop Up Storefront. Setting up on a neon-lit stretch of Sunset Blvd (between an old motel and a strip joint), Storefront showed…
Courtesy Olaf Breuning At this year’s Armory Show, which ended last month, a Mapplethorpe diptych of Philip Johnson was prominently hung near the entrance. It could hardly have been a coincidence. Design is increasingly swallowed up by the art world,…
There’s nothing quite like the lure of alcohol to drag New Yorkers from their homes on a cold, wintry night. That, at least, is the conclusion one might draw from the capacity crowd that showed up last Thursday evening in…
In the ultimate irony, the Italian journalist Carlo Petrini has created a global movement to combat globalism.
At Greene Naftali, in New York, until March 15, gallerygoers will find the latest batch of work by Bjarne Melgaard, a semi-infamous Norwegian artist known for incorporating imagery from underground subcultures like heavy-metal music and S&M into his paintings and…
