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We all know an Escher when we see one. The staircase that climbs forever and gets frustratingly nowhere. The hand drawing the hand that’s drawing it. The shoal of fish that turns, tile by tile, into a flock of birds. His work has seeped so far into culture – onto album covers, into comic books, […]

Art Review An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well.  Carrie Mae Weems, “Mom at Work” (1978-84) (all photos Nereya Otieno/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — “I’m a victim, brother. I’m a victim of […]

In Slow Burn, Shawn Huckins puts the cognitive dissonance that defines our current era in stark relief. The New Hampshire-based painter has long challenged American mythology and collective aggrandizing by reinterpreting canonical artworks and visual languages. His series have commented on the U.S.’s proclivity for erasing history and the ways our garments convey social status […]

Downtown Phoenix is a brief vertical moment within the city’s low-slung sprawl, which unfurls across more than 500 square miles toward the city’s valley edge. From my airplane window, it appeared as a patch of overlooked stubble on a recently shaved cheek. The man at the airport information desk unhurriedly explained how to arrive there […]

a puerto rican landscape inside el choliseo   Inside San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, Bad Bunny’s No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency turns the arena into a landscape of mountain paths, weathered concrete, plantain leaves, and the familiar roofline of a Puerto Rican home. Designed by STURDY. with Adrian Martinez […]

© Ramus Hjortshøj + 23 Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3300 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025 Photographs Lead Architects: Reiulf Ramstad, Per Fischer, Nikolaj Knudsen, Mads Krogshede © Ramus Hjortshøj Text description provided by the architects. At the edge of the Limfjord in Northern Jutland, Denmark, Doverodde Købmandsgård […]

In Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France, Chevallier Architectes completed the renovation of a residence that already carried decades of history before construction even began. The project became something much bigger than a standard update, as the architect was renovating a house originally designed by his grandfather, also an architect. Two generations, separated by time, ended up connected through […]

The University of California Berkeley announced today that Nicholas de Monchaux has been named the new William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design (CED), regarded as one of the top public schools in the country for architecture and the built environment. De Monchaux, who was a professor of architecture and urban design […]

Guaranteeing more housing in New York City, where the rental vacancy rate sits at 1.4 percent, involves much more than just shovels in the ground. On the heels of the fiscal year 2027 (FY27) financial plan announcement, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office shared Block by Block: The Housing Plan for a New Era, its most comprehensive […]

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Loud, expressive, bold, iconic, one-of-a-kind. Not long ago, architecture functioned as a statement-making device. Frequently associated with the era of the “starchitect,” buildings were used as cultural symbols or city-branding agents, often prioritizing attention and […]

Daily Newsletter The assemblage artist donates her doll collection to the New York Historical, and we walk you through strong performance art at the Venice Biennale. A nude performer dangling upside-down from a giant bell, clanging it on the hour. Another rolling perilously down bleachers, wearing a crumbling plaster skirt. And that isn’t even to […]

Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world around us, transforming each of us into a documentarian at a moment’s notice. This omnipresence shapes our understanding of art and […]