Hello. It’s been a wild few months, but thanks to those who helped and everyone who stuck around. I’ll keep this short since I’m excited to get this post out. More to come. Have a good week, everyone.
Real quick, if you’re in Brooklyn on Saturday, consider stopping by One Love Community Fridge’s Health Forum centered around health & nutrition and food & community. This community is doing amazing things and is made up of great people.
Now on to the show.
André Heller's visionary 1987 fairground, Luna Luna, featuring works by Dali, Keith Haring, Basquiat, and Lichtenstein, is now at The Shed in NYC until January (Word on the street is that it’s A LOT more fun than the LA show)
More than 350 artworks from KAWS’s vast personal collection are now on view at The Drawing Center
Maybe KAWS is not so bad after all
Kenny Scharf opens at The Brant Foundation
Toronto exhibit, "Art/Wear: Sneakers and Artists" explores the growing trend of artists collaborating with sneaker brands
The Hirshhorn Museum presents the largest US exhibition of work by Brazilan twins, OSGEMEOS.
The Guggenheim presents a new view of Orphism—the movement that time forgot
How affordable are New York City museum cafes?
Breakfast Clubbing is affordable! (and in a city near you!)
Fifteen years of NYC’s High Line and its impact on urban design
Central Park is getting a new recreation center designed to disappear
Fifteen years ago, on a tiny plot of land in eastern Tokyo, a young architect began to construct a tower of concrete entirely by hand
Childhood sketch transformed into sustainable luxury retreat
An apartment renovation for a single dad adds color, storage, and sleeping space for two young sons in tight Brooklyn quarters
A three-story Bed-Stuy brownstone is revived with a blend of modern Swiss flair and traditional New England spirit for an art professor, a sound engineer in film, and their young child
How two gallerists decided what they wanted to live with in their Clinton Hill apartment
Architect couple merge multiple styles for the Spanish home
An illustrator’s home and studio in Berlin
Inside a West Village townhouse awash in rosy hues
A ceramicist’s warm Manhattan loft
Inside artist Misha Khan’s home
Parisian apartment is a sanctuary of tactile serenity and sculptural simplicity
As-found details celebrated in London home renovation
A cologny holiday home in Geneva
A minimalist home in Dublin
A modest shoebox house in Montreal
A house in Lisbon with living spaces that focus on nature and gatherings
Experimental Group launches high-altitude hotel
Mellow mauve brickwork helps this hotel in Mexico stand out
A treetop haven in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo
Local geology informs Mykonos hillside villa
A Modern desert home with views of the Las Vegas Strip
An old stone farmhouse converted into a tranquil retreat
A 1980s Larry Booth-designed Chicago townhouse on a narrow plot is a striking example of his author's work, set alongside the city’s postmodernist archive
A forest house in The Netherlands
A triangle cafe in China
Home in Argentina fosters continuous dialogue between humans and nature
Ontario house is calibrated to connect people to spaces and nature
An idyllic home on the bank of a picturesque river in Kiev
This 388-square-foot apartment in Warsaw is all about curves and color
This 1,000-square-foot NYC apartment has the most coveted sunroom
Clustered cabins float on Dutch nature preserve
A mobile child's bedroom made of construction waste
Every day feels like a holiday at this architect's coastal home
East Hampton home takes cues from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
Roofs become ground planes, and inside becomes outside in LA mid-century home
Calvin Straub’s 1958 jewel Wirick House lists in Pasadena
Tour an eco-warrior’s studio in an iconic Lloyd Wright design
After a recent revamp, this $2.5M Spanish-style LA home bursts with color
The building that serves as a canvas for Banksy’s infamous ‘Well-Hung Lover’ is for sale
Urban Radicals reimagine public seating spaces in London
Snøhetta drape Far Rockaway Library in yellow-tinted glass with art by José Parlá
NYC leads US in converting spaces into self-storage
New York City housing shortage highlights need for more development
Seventy-story skyscraper tops out, becoming tallest in Queens
New York is building a skyscraper jail in it’s Chinatown
NoHo building blends historic and modern design
Inside a legendary New York hotel, a full-floor apartment with wall-to-wall tiger print
A new NYC spa for design lovers
Tadao Ando's Naoshima New Museum of Art to open in early 2025
A secret masterpiece by the father of Hawaiian Modernism
A look at world cultural centers designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Cooper Union wins decisive court case against Aby Rosen over Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building by William Van Alen: A shining icon of Art Deco architecture
The oldest skyscraper city in the world
The skyscrapers where nobody lives
Ten architecture and design events to see in December
University of Southern California spotlights four student architecture projects
How Charles and Ray Eames’s 1946 LCW Chair changed furniture as we know it
I ventured to Michael Heizer’s remote land art masterwork—and left transformed
Nathan Yong's tables blend playful anthropomorphic forms and optical illusions with functional design
A wooden chair for a robot
This Japanese faucet can clean dirty dishes without soap
Surfaces that engage with light, space, and nature
Roman and Williams’ latest is a staggering show of 100 original lighting designs
Gen-Z sets its sights on reinventing the record player
Inside Nike’s archives, manufacturing, and R&D facilities
A look inside a Brooklyn gallery’s authentic prints and lithographs
Vintage cigarette vending machines now dispense art
Francesco Clemente and Ed Ruscha on rejection, religion, and getting too high
Artist legally changes his name to Anish Kapoor in response to the Cloud Gate artist’s Vantablack controversy
Crypto entrepreneur purchases Maurizio Cattelan’s banana for $6.2 M and eats it
Takashi Murakami is now selling shoes
When your living room is also a gallery
The future is eerie in this Queens townhouse
Why you should always find room in your budget for art
Atelier Jolie’s year of artisanry
OMA shows off special sculptural interventions for Louis Vuitton in Manhattan
All City Writers – Edition X
OG ZEPHYR’s Graffiti Black Book/Scrapbook: 1978 & Beyond
Milanese designer’s friendly monsters on show
Artist and illustrator Viv Pham (who has been helping with this!)
Michael McGrath summons symbolism and folk art style in expressive paintings
Fantastical totems emerge from clay in Yu Maeda’s vibrant sculptures
Five children's illustrators who are a touch mysterious
How Minecraft is inspiring a new wave of art and design
Australia bans social media for kids
Mothers against media addiction
Global scholasticide is getting worse
Four practical steps to recover your lost creativity
How politics destroyed contemporary art
Substack is design journalism’s irreverent new home
Secondhand book platform launches in the UK
Why black market criminals are targeting luxury cheese
What is the point of Austin’s fake AI restaurant?
The story of the first Photoshopped image
I think that’s plenty of links this time. Thanks for reading all the way to the end, and don’t forget to forward to someone.
Thomas
Appreciate the Breakfast Clubbing shout out. And if you're reading this, you're invited, too!