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CultureGrrl | 04/28/08@04:02AM

BlogBack: Arts Writer Brett Campbell Defends Brad Cloepfil An architect constrained by his assignment---a re-clad, rather than a re-do....
CultureGrrl | 04/21/08@04:26PM

Nouvel News: MoMA Monster Gets Drubbed (and defended) While I sipped sake in Osaka, the French architect was getting a taste of New York-fermented vitriol....
CultureGrrl | 04/20/08@04:28PM

By The Cross...Or The Sword A statue at Mission Dolores church in San Francisco hints at the contradiction at the heart of colonialism...
lies like truth | 04/17/08@04:14PM

MAD's Striptease: Cloepfil Shows New York What He's Got Gauzy black protective veils are gradually dropping away, revealing that reworking existing structures is a waste of time and money....
CultureGrrl | 04/16/08@04:30AM

Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part II Forget the Razzies. Here are the Marties....
CultureGrrl | 04/15/08@04:30AM

Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part I Forget the Pritzkers. Here are the Fillers (no $100,000 award, however)....
CultureGrrl | 04/14/08@04:30AM

Nouvel Riches: Pritzer Gold, Tower of Glass A commendable Pritzker choice---neither too soon nor or too late. But oh, that towering stalagmite on 53rd Street!...
CultureGrrl | 04/12/08@04:50AM

Lauder to the Whitney: There's No Place Like Home His enforced moratorium on selling the Breuer building could be one of his most valuable gifts to the museum....
CultureGrrl | 04/09/08@04:30AM

Sejima and Nishizawa at the New Museum The SANAA exhibition suits the firm's delicate aesthetic, with the added advantage of appearing in one of their best buildings....
CultureGrrl | 04/08/08@04:28AM

Ouroussoff on Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards: The Gray Lady's Guide to Contemporary Civics Bruce Ratner, developer for the Gehry-designed Atlantic Yards project, was also the NY Times' developer. Can Ouroussoff be impartial?...
CultureGrrl | 04/07/08@04:30AM

The New Art of Health Care How a new hospital in Charleston, S.C., signals the rise of art in addressing problems in 21st-century design...
FlyOver | 03/31/08@03:58AM

Nouvel Wins the Pritzker Prize (and Media Embargo Broken Again) Some 42 designs are "in progress," including the MoMA Monster. NY Times Magazine rushes Nouvel profile online a week early....
CultureGrrl | 03/30/08@03:22PM

John Lautner: New Book on the Far-Out Architect Known for celebrity clients and spaceship-like residences in dramatic settings, this bombastic curiosity scores a Hammer exhibition and catalogue....
CultureGrrl | 03/19/08@03:30AM

Bluemner Back in Bloom in the Bronx Restoration and repurposing of a suave Beaux-Arts courthouse, designed by a forgotten architect better known as an artist....
CultureGrrl | 03/19/08@03:30AM

Selldorf's Co-ops: Leaning Tower of Chelsea? It was bound to happen eventually---the first serious construction dispute surrounding a celebrity architect-designed apartment building in NYC....
CultureGrrl | 03/18/08@03:30AM

Dubious in Dubai: Rem the Radical Sheikh Should architecture critics lavish extended praise on designs fresh off the drawing board and likely to change, if not disappear?...
CultureGrrl | 03/14/08@03:30AM

The Case of the Disappearing Museum Director It's not just directors, but also architecture curators who experience burnout from being in-house point men for expansion projects...
CultureGrrl | 03/13/08@03:30AM

Parrish Fashions: Inside the Herzog & de Meuron Selection Process First, get a shortlist of recommendations from the search committee. Then, disregard it and engage the Swiss starchitects....
CultureGrrl | 03/12/08@03:00AM

Old and New New Urbanism in Atlanta and Memphis Is the model too narrow to become a vernacular?...
Aesthetic Grounds | 03/09/08@03:41AM

The Monkees: Pomo Arrivistes......
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Spring 2008 Conferences on Public Art and Design Why are the gatherings in the southeast, northeast and southern california?...
Aesthetic Grounds | 03/06/08@03:14PM

Surprise and Design in Public Works Time to replace "well-designed" as an the objective for public art...
Aesthetic Grounds | 03/05/08@03:04PM

More on Tom Krens from James Russell (and me) UPDATED It takes an architecture critic to appreciate the best of Krens---great (though often unrealized) architecture-and-design undertakings....
CultureGrrl | 02/29/08@02:19AM

Bringing a new eye to facility design The emerging design challenges of commercial retail are directly relevant to our cultural spaces, as well....
Artful Manager | 02/27/08@02:47AM






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