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Welcome to this week’s newsletter. How is everyone doing? If you’re in NYC and haven’t already seen Wangechi Mutu's show at the New Museum, which features over a hundred works, I highly recommend seeing it in person. Her work addresses some of today's most vital questions concerning historical violence and its impact on women and our ties to one another, our ecosystems, and all life forms with which we share our planet. It’s the first time I’ve seen something I liked at the New Museum since they left their Broadway building. Okay. Now on with the links.
What does it mean to be an Afrofuturist now?
At the Brooklyn Museum, twelve artists capture the legacies of the Great Migration
Seventeen contemporary artists of the African Diaspora explore how movement and migration shape their artistic practices and lives at The Africa Center in New York City
MoMA’s new architecture exhibition stages a wide set of local, civic-minded design projects
Should New York City streets be illegal?
Sustainable architecture can’t save the planet
Heritage preservation in times of war
Defending architectural history
Kenzo Tange’s Brutalist gymnasium in Japan to be demolished
Sixteen winners of the 2023 AIA Architecture Award announced
NY-based architect applies her skills to giving back
Chicago is running a design contest to create infill housing
A social housing project stretching along an elevated subway line in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn is completed
Dumbo is displeased with its giant new building
Brooklyn’s tallest tower lists for sale
The famous Flatiron Building to go up for auction
Once the world’s largest hotel, Manhattan’s Hotel Pennsylvania goes ‘poof!’ before our eyes
Scandi minimalism in an Italian Baroque setting turned into temporary hotel
A new luxury cruise ship line is offering a three-year, 175-country journey starting at $30K per person per year
Nine US cities that will pay you to move there in 2023
Can 3D-printed hotel and residences bring a new dimension to Marfa?
The world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood is here
Japan’s Ise Shrine has been rebuilt every twenty years for the past 1,400 years
A playground in China takes inspiration from the natural undulating cave terrain
A glass house becomes a luminous presence in a gritty Australian lane
An art director’s apartment in a new multi-residential building in Melbourne
This black timber and brick home in Australia looks like it’s in stealth mode
A beautifully renovated terrace hits the market in Melbourne
A Sydney home extension made from recycled materials
A Robin Boyd Midcentury masterpiece hits the market
A rare Midcentury home by Bertrand Goldberg surfaces for $14M on NY’s Shelter Island
Renovated Brooklyn brownstone reflects artist’s Australian roots
A haven of calm and quiet in a busy section of Venice, California
This California bungalow conceals a bold interior
A Midcentury Pasadena ranch house that dials up 1950s style
Philip Johnson’s early modernist lake house on Lake Champlain is for sale
The home of Georgia O’Keeffe is for sale in Santa Fe
Organic materials add Ukrainian heritage to modern Kyiv home
A minimal home in Paris retains its historical heritage
A minimal apartment in Madrid
A non-minimal apartment in Madrid
A 1980s bakery is converted into snug and light-filled home in Spain
Industrial apartment in Barcelona is transformed to blend living space and art gallery
Transforming a pediatrician’s office into a home in Mallorca
A candy-striped hideaway hotel on the city outskirts in India
A German villa transformed with built-in sofa, green hues, and a slide
Architect couple’s historic Harlem row house
A Brazilian home full of soulful objects
An apartment renovation in a 1970s building in São Paulo, Brazil
Brazilian favela home wins house of the year award
Why Brutalism is making an interior-design comeback
Do the home’s interior colors impact mental health?
New wave of books, exhibitions, and archival projects work to tell a more complete story of spaces designed for and by Black homeowners
Twenty of the best sculptural table lamps to suit any style
Bought in a thrift store for $700, a rare Giacometti chandelier just sold at auction for almost $3M
The latest iconic Italian sofa reissue, Bellini’s 1972 Le Mura, has arrived in the US
What about Mrs. Eames?
Climate activists protest in front of Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Scottish environmental activists smash glass case of sword in protest
Ontario police have arrested eight people suspected of forging thousands of artworks attributed to Indigenous artist
Dutch police are closing in on the so-called ‘Pink Panther Gang’ behind last year’s daytime art fair diamond heist
Why Warhol images are making museums nervous
A copyright case about Warhol’s work could change the future of Western art — and, in a sense, its history, too
Kandinsky painting sells for $45M at auction
The new generation of transcendental painters
Painting the terrifying beauty of abortion-inducing flowers
The Palestinian-American artist getting cheeky with corporate logos
Must-see museum shows opening this spring
What to see in NYC galleries this month
California’s City of Compton gets its own museum
Eleven artists respond to climate change, economic challenges, and social transformations with immersive works at this year's Desert X
Roswell, New Mexico artist residency is accepting applications for their next residency
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is looking for its next artist-in-residence
An Upstate New York residency is looking for women parent artists
Call for artist proposals: art installation to memorialize Lower East Side African burial ground
New art books you should know
A black and white photographic look at Brutalism in Paris
New York designers create garden structure from repurposed architectural mockup
Artist’s popular art scavenger hunt is the subject of a new documentary that captures the thrill of the chase
A do-nothing day makes life better
That’ll do it for this week. Once again, I appreciate you for reading. Take care of yourselves, and I will see you next time.
Thomas