The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo … [Read more...]
Scissors Series by Chiara Dattola
Personal sorrow gave our dear friend Chiara Dattola the strength to produce her more intense drawings so far. "I like scissors. Lately I've started … [Read more...]
Your Prison (The Routine of Daily Life) by Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Brodsky (1955) is a Russian architect and artist famous for his narrative works on the brink between different disciplines. His production … [Read more...]
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]
Mapping the ‘Bloody Week’: The Last Days of the Paris Commune in a Cartographic Narrative
The events that occurred in the last month of La Commune, - the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871 … [Read more...]
Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)
László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space Modulator", … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)
Jivya Soma Mashe is a central figure in Indian tribal art, as he was the one who turned the Warli tribal art from a predominantly … [Read more...]
Methods, Processes and Transformations: 1930s Works by Kurt Kranz
I look for rules, principles, methods or processes that generate change by visual means and lead to a consistent process that is governed by … [Read more...]
The Imaginary Town of an Unconscious Architect: The 387 Paper Model Houses of Peter Fritz
Although the 2013 Venice Art Biennale ended almost two weeks ago, we'd like to talk about one of the artworks that impressed us … [Read more...]
A Forgotten Masterwork: Cinema Airone in Rome by Libera with Capogrossi (1952-56)
In the late 1940’s a trapezoidal lot in the then underdeveloped Appio-Latino quartier in Rome was destined to housing and architects Calini and … [Read more...]
Adolf Loos, Tristan Tzara House, Paris (1925-1926)
The house for the Romanian poet and Dadaist Tristan Tzara and his wife, the painter Knitson, was designed and built by the Austrian architect Adolf … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of the first … [Read more...]
“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration
According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]
John Hejduk: The Riga Project (1987)
This is the catalog of an exhibition held at University of the Arts, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and the Great Hall, Nov. 20-Dec. 22, 1987. It … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]
Visual arts and Space of Involvement (Savioli and Natalini on students’ works) – 1966/67
"Per un nuovo rapporto tra l'utente ed il suo spazio" ("For a new relation between the user and his space") and "Arti visive e spazio di … [Read more...]
When the World Was Flat, Paintings by Chris Ballantyne
Desolate settings, impoverished suburban environments and depopulated neighborhoods are the privileged subjects in Chris … [Read more...]
Confusion of Tongues: The Construction of the Tower of Babel
1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of … [Read more...]
Oil on Canvas Works by Garcia / Frankowski
Recent architectural paintings by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski. Garcia and Frankowsky are architects, artists and writers based in Beijing … [Read more...]
The Mnemosyne Atlas, Aby Warburg – The Absorption of the Expressive Values of the Past
Some days ago, Flavien Menu from N-D-L-R published a long post including many images and the introductory text of the "Mnemosyne Atlas" by art … [Read more...]
Ugo La Pietra on Venice (1982)
"I pay the ticket, I enter, do a tour of things to see, so I go: this is the time in Venice, a time equal to the one that everyone uses when entering … [Read more...]
The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)
The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]
Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]
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