For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change. Read More

New York-based designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a wall sconce with a flesh-like silicone composite that is moved by motors to emphasise "the ways that even the most ordinary of domesticities often pulse with vitality". The lighting piece, called Flesh Light, consists of a silicone material that resembles flesh, suspended between a series of. The post Brecht Wright Gander's Flesh Light lamp sheds light on "mechanical servants" appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

The feature film debut from actress Veerle Baetens, When It Melts follows Eva (Charlotte De Bruyne) as she returns to her hometown for a childhood friend’s funeral with an ice block stashed in the back of her car. As the bitter winter rages on (and the ice block slowly begins to shrink) Eva recalls via flashback a sweltering summer from her adolescence that forever altered her life and identity. Cinematographer Frederic Van Zandycke discusses his previous collaboration with Baetens, working with the young actors of When It Melts and the film’s most emotionally challenging scene to shoot. See all responses […] The post “From the Beginning I Knew This Film Was About Performance”: DP Frederic Van Zandycke on When It Melts first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features MVRDV's reimagining of Vancouver's waterfront in response to rising sea levels. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, which reported that sea levels could increase as much as two metres by 2100, MVRDV has released proposed plans for Vancouver's waterfront featuring resilient. The post Dezeen Debate features MVRDV's "awfully idyllic" 2100 vision for Vancouver's waterfront appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Jere Van Dyk has spent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he got to know leaders of the Haqqani network, responsible for many suicide bombings and kidnappings. His new book is Without Borders. Read More

Postscript He Was Tom Verlaine Patti Smith remembers her friend, who possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music. Read More

Illustration: Chris McGonigal/HuffPost; Photos: Netflix/Getty Images These days, folks often use the word “iconic” a bit too liberally. Like when a celebrity wears a fabulous dress to a red carpet event or an actor posts some worthy shade on social media. Even calling someone Hollywood’s “It girl” has lost a lot of its flavor due to overuse. But when someone manages to upstage Larry David, one of the funniest curmudgeons on TV, on his own show, as Keyla Monterroso Mejia has, then maybe we should just give the side-splittingly hilarious actor her due. If you’ve seen her play the remarkably untalented aspiring star Maria Sofia Estrada on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” then you already know what I mean. Read More

The Californian artist began her year in a stark, starry manner, by presenting her 2019 work, Mandorla Squeeze as an alternative cover for Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster, in a show at LA County Museum of Art, as part of the show Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined. The exhibition invited visual artists, including Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, and Ed Ruscha, to select albums and songs from the LA record label Interscope’s catalog, and match the recordings with their own works. Read More

“I don’t find myself that interesting either.” Read More

It is well known that non-fungible tokens have radically changed the art world, but the impact of NFTs on architecture remains underexplored. The post NFTs in Architecture: How Non-Fungible Tokens Are Changing Design Practice appeared first on Journal. Read More

Valentine’s Day Sale at My Modern Met Store: Save 15% on All of Our Creative Products The sweetest day of the year is quickly approaching—one that’s synonymous with love and tasty treats. We’re talking about Valentine’s Day! To celebrate this lovely holiday, My Modern Met Store is having a Valentine’s Day Sale. From now until February 14 at 11:59 PM PST, use the code MYVALENTINE to save 15% on your entire order […] READ: Read More

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Moons of Jupiter,” which was published in a 1978 issue of the magazine. Read More

Alex Prager, Run (2022), via Lehmann Maupin This winter, Lehmann Maupin presents Part Two: Run, an exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager, that marks the debut of Prager’s ambitious new film, Run and features a selection of new photographs and sculptures made in conjunction with and in response to the film. Directly responding […] Read More

When Andrew Wolgemuth served in Afghanistan, his comrades in his special operations platoon came to depend on him for a particular skill set and base of knowledge: diamond engagement rings. "A bunch of Rangers in my platoon were at that point in their life where they wanted to get engaged," says Wolgemuth. "They want this idea of, they're fresh off a combat deployment, and all of the wives, girlfriends, family members are standing there with signs and they get to walk up, drop to a knee and propose." Read More

Dezeen Showroom: lighting brand Zero Lighting has collaborated with designer Jens Fager to add a variety of sizes and formats to the existing Compose lighting collection. Compose now consists of a floor lamp, table lamp, wall mounted light fixture and a larger version of the original metal shade, alongside a previously released rail lighting system. The post Zero Lighting expands Compose collection with four lights by Jens Fager appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

The seaside village of Iyi is the setting for C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s mythical Mami Wata, which chronicles the fraught relationship between an all-powerful African water deity and the villagers who are currently embroiled in a period of unrest. The widely respected Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) acts as the intermediary between the titular water goddess Mami Wata and the villagers, but the death of a young boy further provokes the villagers toward an act of violence that no entity can control.  Editor Nathan Delannoy discusses the process of cutting the gorgeous black and white film, including how he followed his gut […] The post “This Is Filmmaking as an Artistic and Cultural Necessity”: Editor Nathan Delannoy on Mami Wata first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

Binational studio Montalba Architects used ample glazing and a clever siting strategy to provide the best vistas at Canyon Terrace House in southern California. Designed for a family of four, the multi-storey home sits on a sloped site in Santa Monica. Providing a connection to the outdoors – including views of a nearby canyon – The post Montalba Architects prioritises views at hillside home in Santa Monica appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Daniel Black's essays call for an overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system, of the Black church, of the way Black people see themselves, and of the country itself — and do so with authority Read More

For a time, the director’s name was a pop-cultural punch line. With the release of his new film, “Knock at the Cabin,” he says, “You know, things are going well for me, and it makes me scared.” Read More

There should be a conversation about “The Real Friends of WeHo,” a new reality series from MTV billed as an “unfiltered and honest look at a select group of friends living, loving, and pursuing their passions in the West Hollywood community.” The show, which premiered on Jan. 20, drew immediate backlash mere seconds after the trailer was released online. Admittedly, I’m guilty of helping lead the pile on because based on the preview alone, it looked like a show created by people with no real attachment to the LGBTQ community. The trailer further perpetuates the myopic representation we’re used to seeing of us in mass media: white, privileged and/or elitist — with sprinkles of color. Worse, it appeared that once again, “representation” would be invoked as a means to draw viewers despite how flawed such a marketing strategy is to audiences regardless of their sexuality. Read More

It’s a question that’s engaged critics and curators consumed by the acclaimed artist’s work. Mark Godfrey, contributor to a new book on Sze, has a really interesting take Read More

“I once promised a man who was touchy about his privacy I would keep his secrets, and I kept his secrets.” Read More

After Giancarlo De Carlo's plans to transform this warehouse into a naval museum fell through, this treasure chest of "white gold" languished. The post A Temple to Water, a Warehouse for Salt: This Modern Rehabilitation Was 3 Centuries in the Making appeared first on Journal. Read More

Anish Kapoor Unveils New “Mini Bean” Sculpture in New York City   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Hook (@hook.art) Nearly 20 years after the debut of  Cloud Gate, colloquially referred to as “The Bean,” in Chicago, British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has unveiled its twin in New York City. The new reflective sculpture is smaller than its predecessor, and tucked into a […] READ: Read More

In 2011, Karen Levy, a doctoral candidate in Princeton’s sociology department, spent the summer as a research intern at Intel’s offices near Portland, Oregon. Her official remit was fuzzy and open-ended, but the company had at one point emphasized its resolve to find use cases for its chips in vehicles. Levy hadn’t thought much about vehicles per se, but her mixed academic background—she was also trained as a lawyer—predisposed her to reflect on situations that dramatized the peculiar relationship between formal codes (the realm of the law) and practical expediency (the realm of the ethnographer). The road, it occurred to her, was the site of our most common and thoroughgoing encounter with rules; it was also the scene of our most routine and matter-of-fact disregard for them. Take, as an example, jaywalking. It remains technically criminal in many places, but the enforcement of the prohibition is typically neither expected nor desired. Levy’s work is often about the wiggle room that makes social life possible. As she put it to me recently, “What do we really mean when we say a rule is a rule? When do we not mean it?” While in Oregon, Levy happened to hear an NPR segment about new restrictions on the wiggle room afforded to long-haul truckers. Since the nineteen-thirties, truckers had been reasonably encumbered by restrictions on the number of hours they were allowed to work. These regulations relied upon self-reports manually inscribed in paper logbooks, which truckers were obligated to provide upon inspection. These logbooks, however, were easily falsified; at the end of the day, or at the end of a trip, the trucker retrofitted his journey to accommodate the law. This was an open secret: truckers called them coloring books, or even swindle sheets. Road safety, however, was a real issue. For decades, regulators had debated the introduction of electronic logs—tamper-proof devices, hardwired to trucks’ engines, that could digitally track the time truckers spent behind the wheel. Truckers were, to put it gently, resistant to the idea. Long-haul trucking is not a good... Read More

David Salle, Tree of Life, This Time with Feeling (Installation View), via Thaddaeus Ropac Presenting a body of new works at the Thaddaeus Ropac exhibition space in Paris, artist David Salle returns for the culmination of his celebrated Tree of Life series, a body of works that used human dramas and a comical undertone to create a space fro […] Read More

Former Apple designer Jony Ive has reimagined one of the world's most recognisable fundraising products – the nose worn as part of the annual Red Nose Day appeal. Created by Ive and his design studio LoveFrom for the UK charity Comic Relief, the revamped red nose consists of a honeycomb sphere made from paper, which. The post Jony Ive gives Red Nose Day nose a "dramatic" flat-pack redesign appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

A.V. Rockwell’s feature debut A Thousand and One begins with Inez (Teyana Taylor) migrating between shelters during an intensely hot summer in ’90s-era New York City. Her 6-year-old son Terry is in foster care, and she makes the bold decision to kidnap him and discreetly live together again in Harlem. Years pass, and Terry (Josiah Cross) has grown into a shy but precocious teenager. However, the secret that the Inez has kept for a decade threatens to be revealed, meaning that the life she has built with her son could crumble at any moment. Cinematographer Eric Yue talks about how […] The post “I Was Drawn to Harlem as a Character and How Gentrification Was Also an Antagonist”: DP Eric Yue on A Thousand and One first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

Thai practice IDIN Architects has created a series of minimal, pavilion-like structures for Nana Coffee Roasters in Bangkok, which feature mirrored mosaic ceilings to reflect the surrounding gardens. Located in Bangkok's Bangna district, the project occupies an oasis-like site of dense greenery alongside a busy road. IDIN Architects were tasked with expanding an existing structure. The post IDIN Architects uses glass and mirrors to blend Bangkok cafe into garden site appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show." Read More

PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)—Kari Lake said that she is “absolutely furious and outraged” that no one has performed a search of her home for stolen documents. “The F.B.I. has been raiding the house of every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but somehow doesn’t think mine is worthy of their attention,” she said. “This doesn’t pass the smell test.” Read More

From a drama about an aging grandmother who discovers the thrill of porn to a rom-com centering on two heartbroken South Londoners, we’ve got you covered. Read More

The Warehouse District in New Orleans teems with contemporary art galleries, hip new restaurants, a renowned Southern art museum—and of course, strong, strong drinks. Read More

A landscape has come into being through a constellation of resistances to these strategies of control. Read More

Kicking off the new year, readers were drawn to the restoration of a 1960s Californian home with a circular floor plan and more global projects. The post Reader’s Choice: Top 10 Architecture Projects on Architizer in January 2023 appeared first on Journal. Read More

Learn How to Draw a Duck Swimming in a Pond in 14 Steps In search of your next drawing subject? You don't have to look very far. Sketching nature is a great way to acquaint yourself with different animals and practice rendering their anatomy. If you're interested in creating a peaceful illustration of a pond, for instance, then the best way to add to it is by drawing […] READ: Read More

It all starts so simply: an unseasonably warm Sunday morning in November, errands to run, a waking family to get home to. On the first page of Alba de Céspedes’s novel “Forbidden Notebook” (Astra House)—published in 1952 and newly translated by Ann Goldstein—we meet Valeria Cossati as she strolls through the streets of Rome, feeling a “childish pleasure” that’s rare in her busy life as a wife, mother, and office worker. She stops in a tobacconist’s shop to pick up some cigarettes for her husband, Michele. Waiting in line, her eyes fall on “a stack of notebooks in the window. They were black, shiny, thick, the type used in school, in which—before even starting it—I would immediately write my name excitedly on the first page: Valeria.” She is immediately seized with the certainty that she must buy one, “impelled” by some unrecognizable craving. What makes Valeria do it? Is it the freedom of walking down the street on a beautiful morning, mercifully alone, having bought flowers solely for her own pleasure? (The first of many shades of Virginia Woolf.) Is it the childhood recollection of writing her name on the first page and the anticipation that she might do it again, reclaiming herself as “Valeria” rather than “mamma” or “Signora Cossati” for the first time in more than twenty years? Whatever it is, the compulsion is so strong that she insists that she must have the notebook, even when the tobacconist tells her that it’s illegal for him to sell anything but cigarettes on Sunday. From the novel’s first line—“I was wrong to buy this notebook, very wrong”—the notebook is equally freighted with self-flagellating judgment and a burning, mysterious desire. Unbeknownst to her husband and children, Valeria begins to keep a record of... Read More

Jonathan Baldock, Mother Flower (2022), via Stephen Friedman Centered on themes of nature and the cycle of life, artist Jonathan Baldock presents a deeply personal and resonant exhibition this month at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, a show that reflects on the artist’s relationship with his mother and her garden. Arranging a selection of new works in wall-mounted […] Read More

American fashion designer Thom Browne, who recently won a trademark lawsuit filed by sportswear giant Adidas, said it was important to fight this battle to help his smaller, independent colleagues. Read More

Swedish School of Textiles graduate Pola Demianiuk has designed a collection of self-moving garments named Soft Assembly, which curl and contract around the wearer's body. Created as part of her postgraduate fashion design degree, Demianiuk applied soft robotics – a subfield of robotics focusing on technologies mimicking living organisms – to produce the kinetic clothing. The. The post Pola Demianiuk creates robotic clothing that "assists the body to be dressed" appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica that open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. Named Achioté, two 95-square metre villas are embedded in a steep 11,000-square metre plot of jungle, 300 metres above the sea and are, according to the studio, the. The post Formafatal creates series of rammed earth structures in Costa Rica appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

The pale daylight and early darkness of winter create a space for stories — in particular for stories that ask the reader to mull themes and ideas that can sometimes be difficult. Read More

Before Tuesday night’s game between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James stood a hundred and seventeen points away from passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record for points scored in a career. James’s chase of Abdul-Jabbar down the halls of history has had an odd, preëmptively anticlimactic vibe. It’s an incredible feat whose impending reality we’ve had three or four years to digest. Barring a major injury—which, on the one hand, is always possible, especially for a player in his later thirties, but which, on the other hand, seems hard to imagine, given LeBron’s remarkable durability—nobody has doubted, for almost half a decade, that the record would eventually belong to him. Last year, when he passed Abdul-Jabbar’s record for points in the regular season and post-season combined, it barely registered in the news—largely, I think, because those of us who care about such things were anticipating, without much true suspense, this season’s weightier milestone. Maybe that certainty has been unfair. The lead-up to LeBron’s big accomplishment hasn’t felt like the bazaar of praise that welcomed Steph Curry’s triumphal assumption of the record for three-pointers made. That might be because the Lakers have been so strangely mediocre for the past two seasons. Their other, younger star, Anthony Davis, was supposed to take over as the team’s best player, allowing LeBron, who recently turned thirty-eight, to rest a bit, but Davis is stuck in a purgatorial loop of injury, convalescence, return, and reinjury. Last season’s chief acquisition, Russell Westbrook, was an outright disaster as lead guard before settling into place as the team’s sixth man. Recently, James scored forty-six points in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Toward the end of the game, the cameras fixated on his defeated posture as he sat on the bench. He looked like the lost parent of a wayward... Read More

Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: Sundance Institute/Jeff Hutchens/Showtime/Getty A question that often comes to mind for many underrepresented filmmakers is whether or how the reality of systemic racial trauma and abuse shows up in narratives centering on their people. Native storytellers are no exception, particularly at Sundance, a festival that built its mission around supporting their work and celebrating the humanity of the ancestral landowners. Quiet as it’s too often kept in American media coverage, Indigenous communities continue to experience rampant domestic violence, unsolved murders and disappearances, as well as drug and alcohol addiction — much of which is due to the lasting effects of colonization. Read More

Has lockdown life got you reassessing the art pairings on your walls? Are you looking for a dynamic addition to your editions? We reveal how you can make different mediums play nicely Read More

“The couch was me, which was part of the problem: it reflected back to me how little I knew about my own desires.” Read More

Absences can speak volumes. From factories to restaurants and residences, these projects offer a compelling vindication of the void. The post Into the Void: 7 Examples of Astounding Architectural Apertures appeared first on Journal. Read More

Yale Honors Young Black Scientist After Neighbor Falsely Reported Her to Police The spotted lanternfly has been in the news a lot recently. The brightly hued yet deeply invasive and destructive species has spread quickly. Damaging apple and maple trees among many other types of plants, the public was even encouraged to stomp them any time they saw the flash of red and spotted wings. One young […] READ: Read More

Before she wrote nearly two dozen suspense novels about psychopaths, sad sacks, and untimely death, when she was a twentysomething party girl in Manhattan, Patricia Highsmith wanted to write a bildungsroman about making it in the city. In her notebooks and diaries from that time, she imagines “a novel about the twenty-year-olds. . . . The bewilderment, the discouragement, the groping, the doubt, the hopes, the uncertainty of any permanence whatever.” She muses soberly, youthfully, “This could have great significance with respect to the times—economic, politic, the war and the knowledge—latent and unconscious, that we ourselves do not govern ourselves, and therefore are at other people’s mercy, if any.” At other times, she wonders if perhaps sex will be her great literary theme. The novel she actually published that comes closest to these fledgling ambitions (it’s also one in which, uncharacteristically, nobody is killed, and the only one that Highsmith drafted sections of in the first person) is her lesbian romance, “The Price of Salt. ” In its opening pages, the nineteen-year-old Therese Belivet, seeking distraction at her job on the sales floor of the Frankenberg’s toy department, reads from the employee handbook about vacation benefits: “ ‘Twenty-five Yearers’ got four weeks’ vacation, the booklet said.” Therese considers how “the store was organized so much like a prison, it frightened her now and then to realize she was a part of it.” The terror of this realization, and her reflexive disgust for institutional life in general, originates in her upbringing at a boarding school, where her mother, from whom she’s become estranged, left her when she was eight years old. Later, Therese... Read More

Joseph Beuys, 40 Years of Drawing (Installation View), via Art Observed This month in London, Thaddaeus Ropac has embarked on a particularly striking and powerful exhibition, bringing together almost 100 works on paper from the archives of the Joseph Beuys family for the first time in the United Kingdom. On view now, Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing is the first […] Read More