Stories By Alix McKenna
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Pritzker Prize goes to Bowery Museum’s Architects
February 7, 2024The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to the Japanese duo, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa....
Architecture
Recycling Meets Recreation
February 6, 2024Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
February 5, 2024Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Art
Artist’s Blacklist Fights Speculation
February 3, 2024Although the market has been good to Ms. Dumas, the artist’s distaste for speculative art buyers...
Art
Suburban Gothic: A. Clarke Bedford’s America
February 3, 2024Bedford explains "one begins to wonder if every snapshot of grandparents in a Model A Ford...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
February 2, 2024Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
January 31, 2024While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...