Remembering the dean of L.A. architectural historians.
What the plan to reopen Welton Becket’s Sunset Boulevard landmark says—and doesn't say—about the future of moviegoing. Plus: the Quito fallout continues
It’s on like Laocoön. Plus: the Stirling shortlist, a widening architectural scandal in Quito, and a location scout’s take on South L.A.
The latest on the crisis at the Pfizer building, including a conversation with Joe Morgenstern, who wrote a canonical New Yorker article on another midtown tower in danger of collapse; ‘I've been waiting for this call since 1978’
I asked some curators, critics, and historians to weigh in. Plus: Joe Day on L.A.’s trio of new museum buildings; Kate Wagner on American architecture at 250; and the “era of error” moves to the National Mall
“The Century of Gehry” opens a lengthy run at the Serralves Museum. Plus: Calling all fall preview items; three linked Paul R. Williams exhibitions on the way; and possible trouble for a Kuma design in D.C.
On the trail of Jean-François Zevaco, a forgotten Moroccan master
Highlights from “A LACMA Therapy Session,” the first Punch List live event, including newly commissioned photos by Janna Ireland of the David Geffen Galleries
Is the tower at the heart of the Chicago campus a bulwark? A monument to one man’s ego? A memorial to a vanishing vision of America? It might just be all three
Ahead of the Obama Center opening next month, a road trip to Hyde Park reveals how far we’ve drifted from the original model
L.A.’s unlikely mayoral contender is only the latest on the right to call for a revival of the style
It shows up as a surprising coda to “Rising Up,” Paul Farber’s show on myth and monuments at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; plus: a Neue Galerie-Met “merger” and a Reflecting Pool lawsuit
