Evan Moffitt

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Evan Moffitt

Architecture is in crisis. Construction is responsible for nearly 40 per cent of global carbon emissions, but architects can hardly afford to stop designing buildings. The curatorial team for the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, led by Carlo Ratti, invited architects and designers to propose solutions to this problem in an open call; more than 280 projects by 750 participants made the final cut for this year’s show, titled ‘Intelligens. Artificial. Natural.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Evan Moffitt

The Admiral Duncan is empty when Jeremy Atherton Lin arrives to meet me, save for a few meandering flies. In the final pages of his bestselling book, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Lin visits the old Soho boozer in London with his husband, where they encounter a “despondent” scene: spilled beer, backed-up toilets and a wasted drag queen. Even so, they are charmed by an older couple across the bar and wonder if they’ll be lucky enough to end up like them.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Evan Moffitt

1 day agoThe Taliban has banned Afghans from playing chess until it works out whether the game is compatible with Islamic law. The decision, announced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, follows the dissolution of the Afghanistan Chess Federation and places all chess-related …

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Eddy Frankel |Tim Jonze |Charlotte Jansen |Oliver Wainwright |Evan Moffitt

Louise Bourgeois’s spider opens the museum (2000)Frances Morris, then head of displays“Louise Bourgeois symbolised what I wanted Tate Modern to be: a place where you would have extraordinary encounters with artists who weren’t in the canon. She proposed an installation with three towers for the Turbine Hall and we suggested also borrowing a small group of her spiders to put on the ramp down into the hall, to lure people in.

1 month ago | msn.com | Evan Moffitt

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