07 December 2025

more Gehry memories

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Another (re)post on Frank Gehry after his recent death --  2016 road trip report by Aaron Betsky  -- reminded me about the Iowa Advanced Tec...
06 December 2025

Frank Gehry, rest in peace

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Frank Gehry  died yesterday , just a week or so after  Robert A.M. Stern . You would not generally mistake the work of one architect for the...
28 November 2025

yellow stairs and brutalist buildings

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Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Monte Amiata housing, Gallaratese, Milan (Carlo Aymonino, archt.)
09 November 2025

separated at birth: rows of circles, in a grid

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quilt on view at Chapman Museum, Glens Falls, N.Y. October 2024 Nadia Gould Because I am Young, Beautiful & Talented 2 1964 in exhibitio...
21 August 2025

Endeavor and Voyager

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NVIDIA's new campus, designed by Gensler, consists of a triangular and a hexagonal building. It is featured in an article in Metropolis ...
16 August 2025

If Caillebotte were a photographer ...

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Randy Tarampi, from Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/randytarampi/32046695624/  
09 August 2025

funnels

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For thirty years and a bit more, I have been involved with the  Art NACO  funnel of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. It enables us ar...
06 June 2025

Milan: changing skyline

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When we were in Milan in spring 2018 and stayed near the  Bosco Verticale , this was the view toward the Porta Nuova development. Last week ...
05 June 2025

Edmund White

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When I review the books that I've read over the course of a year, the titles are generally split about equally between fiction and non-f...
30 May 2025

The Ecstasy of the Magdalen

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This morning's  Artle  stumped me. I was guessing various Italian Baroque artists and my fourth guess was  Annibale Carracci . That was ...