Case Study House No. 22, Los Angeles, Calif., Iconic Girls, 1960; Pierre Koenig, Architect. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute
In Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press), architectural historian Alberto Perez-Gomez puts forward the enticing idea that “true [...]

The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art’s (LACMA) permanent collection will always hold a special place in my heart. The home of David Hockney’s iconic (and locally relevant), panoramic Pop painting Mullholland Drive, Kurt Schwitters’ Dada masterful assemblage work Construction for Noble Ladies, and brilliant photographs from renowned artist Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series, [...]

Despite the systems we have devised to measure time, and thus give it the appearance of order and regularity, time remains relative to the circumstances in which we experience its passage. For more than three decades Doni Silver Simons has made marking time into a repetitive image-making ritual resulting in a prolific body of paintings [...]

Frank Navarro (Art and Philosophy Writer, France) is pleased to announce the launching of the first ART GATE seminar series.
The 3 seminar sessions (contemporary art introductory class, special gallery tour, art market rules and private collection exploration) have been meticulously designed to give a deep and broad vision of the world of art, while providing a clearer understanding of [...]

A Tête à Tête with Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck
Indisputably the most famed designer of our time, French born Philippe Starck recently declared, “Design is dead.” Perhaps his era of designing toothbrushes, juicers and thousand-dollar Louis chairs is no longer but Starck design is definitely not extinct. Rather, it is exploding to a higher consciousness. [...]