Architecture Review | Philip Johnson's Glass House: Through a Glass, Clearly, a Modernistâs Questing Spirit
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For all its fame, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., is structurally imperfect, but is also a legitimate aesthetic triumph.
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The Modern's architecture department was once famous for changing the way Americans viewed design. The new installation, by comparison, is unlikely to burn a hole in our memories.
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Denis Johnsonâs wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages to turn it into something original and potent.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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It&#39;s easy to believe that  composer Philip Glass, whose so-called minimalist works often  repeat themselves into transcendence, is a disciplined  practitioner of Eastern meditation.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Abuja's airplane house, as it has come to be known by its inhabitants and amazed passersby, has emerged haphazardly over the years as a rare triumph of architectural whimsy in this sleek, modernistic West African capital.
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Like its predecessors, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museumâs third National Design Triennial is a crazed affair that illuminates a volatile, contradictory, ever-expanding field but fails to call it to order.
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Life & style: Britain's first "Ikealand" opens to spread the off-the-shelf principle from furniture to entire houses
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Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material, âRadiant Cityâ is an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.
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In âBook of Longing,â Philip Glass illuminates Leonard Cohenâs poetry with a chamber score that breathes naturally and gracefully.
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Arts & entertainment: Jonathan Jones ponders the meaning of  Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
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A British architectural historian has an unusual specialty: he focuses on architectsâ designs that have been taken apart.
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Arts & entertainment: Adrian Searle on how the Tate Modern has brought the pervy panache of Duchamp and Pacabia to life
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Defying concerns that post-9/11 construction would be dominated by concrete bunkers, the designers of new buildings in New York are turning to glass facades.
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The architect behind New York's revamped Museum of Modern Art likens it to a Japanese teacup.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents an Abbas Kiarostami retrospective that covers more than three decades of the artistâs films and photographs.