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China to Bulldoze Old Kashgar, A Major Center of Islamic & Uighur Culture
The Chinese authorities are demolishing ancient Kashgar (wiki) in far western China. Once an important stop on the Silk Road, Kashgar is a historic center of Islamic & Uighur Culture in China...
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Manet’s “Bohemian” Set to Land at Abu Dhabi’s Louvre
Here’s a really good post about Abu Dhabi‘s new Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre by critic Philip Kennicott. Check out this great paragraph: The “crossroads” of civilization is as valid (and empty) a...
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Moscow’s Architectural Heritage Under Seige, Report Warns
Bye, bye Soviet Constructivist masterpieces, regal Russian palaces and grand Soviet hotels, now is the time for the “ersatz city” full of “architectural mongrels” and “overscaled new monsters.” Via...
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Touring Philip Johnson’s Glass House (photos)
I visited one of the holy sites of American modernism on Wednesday, Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and I brought along my spiffy new camera to document what I saw. For those...
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Don’t Call Him a F*$@ing Starchitect!
There’s nothing like the rage of a starchitect. When London’s Independent newspaper used the “s” term in front of Frank Gehry, the Toronto-born architect went nuts: I don’t know who invented that...
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Canada’s Expo 1967 Pavilion vs its 2010 Olympic Pavilion
* * * * * * I found this on the View on Canadian Art blog. What a jarring contrast: 1960s rational utopianism and 21st century marketing.
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New Museum Ethics Quagmire Gets an Awesome Protest Poster
Trying to find out the origin of street art can feel like tipping at windmills (I never figured out who posted the Obama/Socialism posters in LA) … but sometimes it works. Today was one of my better...
View ArticleThe Renaissance Street, According to Sigfried Giedion
In grad school, I remember how important Sigfried Giedion’s book Space, Time & Architecture was to a small group of us in the Art History program who found in it a treasure trove of information,...
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The Unique Utopianism of Ontario’s Sharon Temple
Early Canadian history is often plagued with dull stories that continue to propagate the old narrative that nothing really interesting happens in Canada — the problem is that it is simply untrue. One...
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