Kriston Capps is a staff writer at CityLab, where he writes about housing, art and design. Previously, he was a senior editor at Architect magazine.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Why Didn’t Jared and Ivanka Report Their Art Collection?
Is it that they take art so seriously, they don’t think of it as money?
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DJ Spooky / The John F. Kennedy Center ... Why Remix The Birth of a Nation?
A live multimedia performance by the musician DJ Spooky considers the 1915 silent film’s legacy as a pioneering document in alternative facts.
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Acconci Studio / MoMA PS1 / Gus Powell Vito Acconci and the Shelf Life of Sensational Art
Artworks that were transgressive in the 1960s might not be acceptable to museum audiences today, thanks to shifting standards about whose voice should be included.
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Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery Remembering Barkley L. Hendricks, Master of Black Postmodern Portraiture
The prescient painter—who died at the age of 72—documented the African American figure as a cultural, and commodified, phenomenon.
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Mark Lennihan/AP Why Wall Street’s Charging Bull Sculptor Has No Real Case Against Fearless Girl
An argument based on the Visual Artists Rights Act is unlikely to hold up in the courts.
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Brennan Linsley/AP Why Christo Cancelled an Epic Public Artwork
The artist’s decision to abandon his expansive Arkansas River project is the latest, biggest creative protest against Trump.
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Douglas Remley / Smithsonian How a Museum Captures African American History
A floor-by-floor preview of the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum of History and Culture
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Meir Kaplan Rebuilding a Former Slave’s House in the Smithsonian
Few Reconstruction-era residences from communities of former slaves are still standing today. The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature the reassembled structure of one.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters To Buy a House, Go to College
A bachelor’s degree is not a requirement for homeownership, but it is starting to look like one.
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Track of the Day: 'Anyhow, I Love You'
Guy Clark, one of the finest songwriters in Texas country history and a Nashville legend, has died. A…
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You Aren't Crazy: The New Mother Jones Logo Is Changing Colors
This morning, Mother Jones unveiled new designs for both the magazine and website to celebrate the publication’s 40th anniversary. In…
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Track of the Day: 'Daydreaming'
When Radiohead set out to disappear completely last weekend, deleting every post from their Twitter and Facebook accounts, they left…
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Andrew Innerarity / Reuters Remembering Zaha Hadid
For better and for worse, she was the world’s first female starchitect.
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Why Is the Smithsonian Still Standing Behind Bill Cosby? Cont'd
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran an extensive preview of the National Museum of African American History and…
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Archives of American Art Is the Government Wasting a Fortune on Art?
Jason Chaffetz is on a mission to find out.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters A Second Chance for an Old Road-Sign Font
Goodbye to Clearview, hello (again) to Highway Gothic.
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Track of the Day: 'Hello' (cover)
Is Adele a snooze? Maybe! Is she music’s Donald Trump? That seems harsh. She may be deep in her feels…
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Why Is the Smithsonian Still Standing Behind Bill Cosby?
Bill Cosby will be arraigned today over a 2004 charge for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his…
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Greenland Travel / Flickr Some Swedish People Built a Hotel Out of Solid Ice
“The most important aspect is to keep your feet and head warm, so woolly socks and a hat is crucial.”
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DBOX / Eric Parry Architects London’s Surprisingly Graceful New Skyscraper, Revealed
The upcoming 1 Undershaft tower won’t look like the Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, or the Walkie-Talkie buildings. In fact, it’s kind of modest.
