John McPhee on Writing and the Relationship Between Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt
“Never stop battling for the survival of your own unique stamp.”
The Pandemic Has Pushed Aside City Planning Rules. But to Whose Benefit?
As bike lanes and cafes sprout on streets, marginalized residents wonder when their priorities will get attention.
MSP Opens First Group Gallery Show in Atrium, Launches Virtual Portal
“Invincible Summer” and “In This Light”: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday- Saturday. Free, reservations are required and can be made online. Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., S.F. 415-243-0825. minnesotastreetproject.com
Both shows can also be viewed virtually through the digital hub Minnesota Street Project Adjacent at minnesotastreetprojectadjacent.com.
Valor y Cambio: A Community Currency Project in Puerto Rico
Valor y Cambio is out to spark a broad conversation about what is a just economy and how to foster collective empowerment in the face of austerity and neoliberal policies locally and nationally.
How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.
There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber
As the country grapples with racial justice, architects should finally take a stand on the most barbaric aspects of a biased prison system.
(W)rapped Space: The Architecture of Hip Hop
This essay theorizes the development of an African-American spatial paradigm that at once recalls, creates, and deploys a new space of diasporian origin that is predicated on a response to spaces that represent an erasure of identity and, concomitantly, the presence of repressive power.
On Didion, The Dead, and the Dawn of a California Arts Revolution
Jim Newton Looks Back at the Early 1960s and a Cultural Moment That Would Shape America
Remembering Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale
Mountains, museums, bridges and Central Park were just some of what he used to make astonishing and popular art with his wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.
NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station.
Why Birds Are the World’s Best Engineers
A nest is “a disordered stick bomb,” resilient in ways that humans have hardly begun to understand, much less emulate.
