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​​“Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight”​ opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

“In the Spanish language the word Husos has at least three different meanings,” Diego Barajas and Ca milo García of Madrid-based practice Husos Architects explain of their namesake. “One is time zones. It also means a spindle, a tool used in weaving … particularly beautiful in its material delicacy, traditionally linked to domestic life. And phonetically,…

A typical MIR artist is "a bit emo yet analytical, very stubborn and quite introverted."

“All my life, I have loved frames and limits; and I will maintain that the largest wilderness looks larger seen through a window,” wrote English writer and professional contrarian G.K. Chesterton. “To the grief of all grave dramatic critics, I will still assert that the perfect drama must strive to rise to the higher ecstasy…

The American shopping mall has always been a symbol of excess. In at least one respect, this reputat ion is justified: There are far too many of them!

If there’s one word that describes the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Qu eensland, Australia, it’s “open”. With very few interior walls, there’s nothing but air between the majority of its studios, lecture halls and pin-up corners. All these spaces occur over, around and on top of each other, slipping past themselves through…

These are spaces of invention, idea-testing and collaboration.

The melancholic streets of Tianducheng serves as the backdrop for xx’s apocalyptic beats and lamenti ng melodies.

Zürich has a special relationship with the avant garde. Dada— the first modernist movement to define itself as “anti art,” a radical insurgency against the status quo — was born here. Beginning in 1916, renegades like Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball published manifestoes, put on inscrutable performances, and basically did everything they could to shock…