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Chemicals, Casks, Crowns & Corks
Cork Trees in Portugal, photograph by Kim Steele Depending on your perspective, as a Boulevardier, one of these might come to mind as a place to start perusing this post… What contemptible scoundrel...
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Silver Spoons & Syringes
It’s high time to pull my head out of the dark clouds and celebrate Boulevardiers, flâneurs, strollers, loungers, saunterers, loafers, and of course, Faire du Lèche-Vitrines everywhere. I’m smiling...
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FREESPACE: Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Scandanavia (Norway/Denmark Pavillion)–Bio-Spheres “FREESPACE describes a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture’s agenda, focusing on the quality of space itself....
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La Sacra Allegoria di Giovanni Bellini~Gallerie degli Uffizi
La Sacra Allegoria di Giovanni Bellini, oil on the table, 1490-1500 A visit to the Uffizi to sink our hands in the ancient roots of Occidental culture… At the Uffizi there is a small painting, a small...
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MICHAEL LIGHT: Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas
Carson River and Cow Tracks at Carson Sink, Pleistocene Lake Lahontan, Fallon, Nevada, 2018, Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco ‘Size is not everything but’ has a large impact...
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Minority Report: Treatise on Art (with asides from the art professor in my head)
The New Yorker cartoon, by Roz Chast I’m in Luxembourg, standing in a gorgeous building, an architectural gem called MUDAM, the Luxembourg Museum of Modern Art. Designed by E.M. Pei, it has great...
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Cuba and the XIIIth Bienal de Arte
Few experiences are as jarring or exhilarating as a first-time visit to Cuba, a country in a sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful time warp, where a resilient population scrapes by with steely resolve...
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Rome Before Romans
Albalonga Millions of tourists every year come to Rome, reading in the guidebooks that Rome was founded in the year 753BC. Very few know what Rome was before it had been “founded.” Prince Prof....
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GARBATELLA ~ ROMA ~ Power to the People
Garbatella Mural (when thought it was named after a loose woman); photograph by Kim Steele In the world of architecture, when ‘Public Housing ‘ is discussed, the name of Le Corbusier comes to mind most...
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Mark Mack — Architect
Art Annex 2, St. Margareten i. L., Austria, 2020, photograph by Pepo Pichler Mark Mack was obviously a rebel from day one when he bloodied the nose of a son of a German teacher in his hometown of...
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