“We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick,” Tim Cook wrote last week. “This is my brick.”
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Coming up roses
A pair of meticulous moments. This fall, Jim Bachor has filled four Chicago potholes with flower mosaics ahead of his show next month at Packer Schopf Gallery. While studying art at Columbia University, Tammy Tiranasar stumbled upon… Read More
Belonging longing
Nocturne, part two: a week ago, Prospect.3, the third iteration of New Orleans’ ambitious biennial, began its blazing run through January 25. Recruit Franklin Sirmans, contemporary art curator at LACMA, came up with this turn’s concept, Notes for Now, a… Read More
Upstate inferno
Strength in numbers: Artists carved more than 5,000 jack o’lanterns to create the fiery wonderland that is the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley. From a creepy covered bridge to a pumpkin-populated Jurassic Park, visitors can bask in the… Read More
Fortune favors
Please may this be my room, filled with objets d’art I’ve found traipsing around the world? Twins Elizabeth and Kathryn Fortunato, the masterminds behind luxe accessories line Lizzie Fortunato, travel often, collecting as they go. Drawn… Read More
Bright idea
This is not a love song. This is not a romanticization, nor is it a celebration. This is, instead, a reenactment of sorts, a restaging of aesthetic ambiguity where one sculpture frames another. In the 1950s, French sculptor André Bloc designed a habitable brick sculpture,… Read More
Mission control
Elegant, expansive, sexy: Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center symbolized mid-century modernism and all of its optimism. Every detail spoke to the stylish hope coursing through the futuristic hub, from the red carpet lining the gateways and the thin-shell… Read More
Everything but
A chartreuse simulacrum of a bathroom. And a bedroom and a staircase. For years, Korean artist Do Ho Suh has been sculpting every aspect of his NYC apartment and studio (a former sailors’ dorm in… Read More
Still singing
Dylan Thomas marked turning 30 with a walk up Sir John’s Hill, a slope overlooking Laugharne, Wales, a walk he remembered in words as “Poem in October.” Mortality writhes in his verse, turning with the trail, twisting with views of the… Read More
Seismic wave
These tantalizing folds – tar black layers with scraggy edges – diverted me from my route yesterday along Second Avenue in the Lower East Side. Geologically graceful (like this Acne sweater), the humps are made of rubber conveyor belts once used to ferry ore from… Read More
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