Today, we take you to Northwest Chicago, where Puerto Rican born artist Edra Soto has invited us to visit her studio. Soto is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator compelled to shape projects that connect with communities.
Views from the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial begin to reveal the worlds of culture, history and politics in the built and natural environment of this metropolis.
On a starry night in September 2015, we meet British sound artist Oliver Beer in Istanbul, for the acoustic experience of his composition Call to Sound, inside a 400-year old Turkish bath. In 2019, Beer brings a hybrid sound project to The Met Breuer, in New York. His Orchestral Vessel features an installation that summons sound from objects in the Museum collection and a program of live performances.
Architecture with a Sense of Place features conversations with artists and architects whose work responds to cultural, historical, sociopolitical and environmental influences on our built…
In these views of Chicago, you’ll encounter urban architecture and contemporary art projects that reveal the relationship of architecture to cultural, political, social and urban…
We meet Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen in Istanbul at ArtInternational 2015, a contemporary art fair where Galeria Senda, Barcelona, is introducing one of Kolehmainen’s projects: large-scale photographs of…
Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye, The Art Institute of Chicago, through January 3, 2016 This mid-career survey of the British-African architect David Adjaye comprises…
It all began with a road trip from Atlanta to Miami. I followed I-95 to I-195, passing downtown Miami to take the causeway onto the island…
Jack Sanders talks about his muse Sam Mockbee, the Rural Studio, El Cosmico, and his commitment to slow architecture, storytelling and dreaming. See below a…
In 2019, three years after Hurricane Maria, we venture to Puerto Rico for the opening of Resisting Paradise, an exhibition that Marina Reyes Franco organized with the support of Apex Art, New York. Jamaica born artists Leasho Johnson and Deborah Anzinger, and artist Joiri Minaya, from the Dominican Republic, show work engaging at the intersection of tourism, sexuality, gender, music and the internet. We record this episode inside Espacio Pública, a newly established culture space, in San Juan’s Santurce district.
