Kriston Capps
Kriston Capps is a staff writer for CityLab covering housing, architecture, and politics. He previously worked as a senior editor for Architect magazine.
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House House The Viral Video Game Where You Play a Horrible Goose
Honk!
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Simone Cecchetti / Corbis / Getty Daniel Johnston, the Folk Poet of Devil Town
While the songs of the influential musician, who died at 58, will endure, it’s hard to say that he was properly appreciated in his time.
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Indian Space Research Organisation Handout/Reuters Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at India’s moon landing, WeWork’s giant IPO filing, Taylor Swift’s Lover, and more.
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Courtesy of Steffani Jemison The Whitney Biennial Homes In on American Precariousness
This year’s survey of 75 artists and collectives is quiet and suffused with anxiety.
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Ryan Maxwell The Artwork That Traps Ivanka Trump in an Endless Cleanup Task
Ivanka Vacuuming, a performance piece by Jennifer Rubell, combines striking visuals with a muddled message.
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Simon Dawson / Reuters How Art Reflects the Age It Comes From
The art world is fragmenting. Will we be able to date the art of the future?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Obamas' Official Portraits, Revealed
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald rose to the occasion with their paintings of the former president and first lady, while—importantly—continuing their radical projects in black portraiture.
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Lynne Sladky / AP The Number of Renters Just Went Down for the First Time in 12 Years
What does this reversal mean for the American housing market?
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Bjarke Ingels Group Soccer Stadiums Are the New Football Stadiums
In hopes of securing an MLS expansion team, cities are proposing to spend lots of public money on building arenas.
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Haley Adair / Symphony for a Broken Orchestra … How To Build an Orchestra From Broken Instruments
The collection of misfit horns and damaged violins being played to draw attention to shortages in public funding for arts education
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EJI (Rendering) Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten
In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
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Memphis Fire Department A City's Solution to Too Many 911 Calls
To cut down on the burdensome costs of non-emergency medical calls, Memphis is taking an experimental approach to health care.
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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.
