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Art
05.06.13: David Heymann
Please Save Modernism from the ModernOn Places, David Heymann makes the case for why the Folk Art Museum is a great modernist building — and why the Museum of Modern Art should reverse its decision to tear it down.
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05.02.13: Peter Holzhauer & Aaron Rothman
Expect EverythingOn Places, a slideshow by photographer Peter Holzhauer, of his recent work on Los Angeles, curated by Aaron Rothman.
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03.28.13: Arturo Soto & Aaron Rothman
Blind ViewsOn Places, a portfolio by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto, focusing on the visual infrastructure of the street, the unremarkable environs of everyday life.
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03.19.13: Mark Feldman
Illuminating the Petrochemical LandscapeOn Places, Mark Feldman reviews collaborative projects that blend photography with environmental activism, including Petrochemical America and Arctic Voices.
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02.04.13: D.J. Waldie
Beautiful and Terrible: Aeriality and the Image of SuburbiaOn Places, D.J. Waldie explores the relationship between aerial photography and the postwar suburban boom, a relationship at once materialistic and transcendent, "beautiful and terrible."
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11.27.12: Andrew Herscher
The Unreal Estate Guide to DetroitOn Places, Andrew Herscher challenges the usual view of Detroit's decline: "What if Detroit has not only fallen apart and emptied out but also become a new sort of urban formation that only appears depleted through the lens of conventional urbanism?"
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11.05.12: Belmont Freeman
Past Perfect: Four Freedoms ParkOn Places, Belmont Freeman reviews the controversial politics of presidential memorials, focusing especially on Four Freedoms Park in New York City, the memorial to FDR designed 40 years by Louis Kahn.
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08.28.12: Aaron Rothman, David La Spina, Ed Panar & Michael Vahrenwald
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 5On Places, the fifth installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.21.12: Aaron Rothman, Bryan Graf, Christina Seely, Kirsten Kay Thoen & Letha Wilson
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 4On Places, the fourth installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.14.12: Aaron Rothman, Bleda y Rosa, Patrick Manning, Richard Mosse & Stephen Tourlentes
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 3On Places, the third installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.08.12: Aaron Rothman, Matthew Brandt, William Lamson, Chris McCaw & Mieke Woestenburg
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 2On Places, the second installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.01.12: Aaron Rothman, Marisa Baumgartner, Guillermo Gudiño & Dan Holdsworth
Landscape Photography: New VisionsOn Places, the first installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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06.04.12: David Heymann
An Un-flushable Urinal: The Aesthetic Potential of SustainabilityOn Places, David Heymann explores the unmet challenge of developing the "radical aesthetic potential" of sustainability in architecture.
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05.17.12: Eric William Carroll
Plato's Home MoviesOn Places, a portfolio of images by photographer Eric William Carroll, who set up a projection screen in Golden Gate Park and laid out blueprint paper on the sidewalks of Brooklyn to capture ephemeral portraits of trees.
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05.07.12: An Xiao Mina
Art Village: A Year in CaochangdiOn Places, An Xiao Mina describes her volatile year in the Beijing arts district of Caochangdi, which was being threatened with demolition.
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04.26.12: Mark Feldman
Visualizing the Ends of OilOn Places, Mark Feldman looks closely at how the photographers Edward Burtynsky and Chris Jordan have each struggled to visualize and critique the effects of our dependence on oil.
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04.10.12: Jerry Herron
The Last PedestriansOn Places, Jerry Herron traces the intersecting lives of architect Albert Kahn, artist Diego Rivera and industrialist Edsel Ford — and how they all shaped the visioin of Detroit as industrial powerhouse.
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01.26.12: Michael Lundgren, Aaron Rothman & Josh Wallaert
If There Be Such SpaceOn Places, a slideshow drawn from a collaborative exhibition by two photographers who share an interest in the perception and representation of natural landscapes.
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10.13.11: Denis Wood
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative AtlasOn Places, geographer Denis Wood and his landscape architecture students map the ordinary, everyday things of a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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09.16.11: Barry Bergdoll
The Art of Advocacy: The Museum as Design LaboratoryOn Places, MoMA's curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll, describes his efforts to expand the museum's role to support experimentation and advocacy.
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05.05.11: Donald Judd & Elizabeth Felicella
101 Spring StreetOn Places, an essay by Donald Judd on the Soho building where he lived and worked, and selected images of its interiors, by New York photographer Elizabeth Felicella.
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05.03.11: Adam Yarinsky
Donald Judd and the Blooming of RealityOn Places, architect Adam Yarinsky reviews Donald Judd, by David Raskin, and Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, by Marianne Stockebrand, et al.
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04.27.11: Timothy Mennel
Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community IsOn Places, Tim Mennel compares the radically different New York worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory and Jane Jacobs's Village — and comes to some provocative conclusions.
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03.17.11: John Mann
Folded in PlaceOn Places, a portfolio of images by photographer John Mann, showing artful deconstructions and reconstructions of maps.
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03.07.11: Beth Weinstein
The Collaborative Legacy of Merce CunninghamOn Places, architect Beth Weinstein highlights a real though often unrecognized architectural type: the diverse collaborations between major choreographers and eminent architects.
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01.18.11: Laura Raskin
Jorge Otero-Pailos and the Ethics of PreservationOn Places, journalist Laura Raskin profiles architect and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos and his "Ethics of Dust" installations at the Venice Biennale and Manifesta.
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01.13.11: Nick Sowers
Soundscapes: Burning ManOn Places, a selection of soundscapes — ranging from dust storms to diesel generators — recorded by architect Nick Sowers at the latest Burning Man.
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12.13.10: David Heymann
Site, AscendantOn Places, the last installment of David Heymann's series on the rising importance of landscape to architecture, seen in works by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Peter Zumthor, OMA, Zaha Hadid, and others.
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12.06.10: David Heymann
Nature-ization Takes CommandOn Places, the second in a series of essays by David Heymann exploring the dynamic relationship of landscape and architecture, evident in works ranging from big civic projects by Norman Foster to small rural houses by Glenn Murcutt.
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07.19.10: Cassim Shepard
Postopolis: Urban PortraitureOn Places, Cassim Shepard describes five days of lively communal conversation about art, design, music, architecture and urbanism at the recent Postópolis!DF in Mexico.
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07.13.10: Dan Pitera
Detroit: Syncopating an Urban LandscapeOn Places, Dan Pitera, of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, curates a portfolio of projects by artists, architects and activists who are reshaping the city's abandoned landscapes.
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04.26.10: Barbara Penner
The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter GreenawayOn Places, architectural historian Barbara Penner explores Peter Greenaway's digital video installation of Veronese's The Wedding at Cana, the latest in the series "Nine Classic Paintings Revisited," shown at the recent Venice Biennale.
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04.22.10: Paho Mann & Nancy Levinson
The Art of Solid WasteOn Places, a slideshow of photographer Paho Mann's images of post-consumer detritus — a.k.a. trash — part of a new public art project at a solid waste facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
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03.01.10: Brian Rosa
Frank Gohlke: Thoughts on LandscapeOn Places, Brian Rosa reviews Frank Gohlke's Thoughts on Landscape, a volume of collected writings which shows that this leading American photographer is as eloquent with words as with images.
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03.01.10: Shana Lopes
New (and Old) TopographicsOn Places, New (and Old) Topographics — selected photographs from the Center for Creative Photography that comprise a complementary exhibition to the current restaging of the groundbreaking 1975 show New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
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01.25.10: Gavin Browning & Michelle Fornabai
inkOn Places, a gallery of images from "ink," an exhibition of the work of Michelle Fornabai now at Columbia's downtown Studio-X.
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11.05.09: Jan Otakar Fischer
Berlin: The Art of ReunificationOn the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, architect and writer Jan Otakar Fischer describes the failed competition to create a reunification memorial — and explores the thorny questions of German memory and identity.
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11.03.09: Frieder Schnock & Renata Stih
Open Space: Berlin After ReunificationBerlin-based artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock curate an online gallery to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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08.15.07: Garth Rockcastle
The Lost Public Art of Gordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-Clark infiltrated the worlds of art and architecture, revealing deep complacencies in each.
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07.15.83: Kathy Halbreich, William Porter and Lois Craig
An Interview with James TurrellA 1983 interview with James Turrell, then beginning his transformation of the Roden Crater. The monumental work is scheduled to open to the public in 2012.
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