Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists)
Her books are filled with insights into art world types and their relationships to the wider world.
At her home in Los Angeles, Rachel Kushner talks about “The Hard Crowd,” her new book of essays on cultural criticism, and her enduring interest in visual art.Credit.Clifford Prince King for The New York Times
By Jonathan Griffin
April 23, 2021, 9:01 a.m. ET
LOS ANGELES At one point in Rachel Kushner’s recently published novella, “The Mayor of Leipzig,” the narrator, an American artist, reveals: “I personally know the author of this story you’re reading. Because she thinks of herself as an art-world type, a hanger-on.”
Design | 5 hours ago | By Deyan Sudjic
Antonio Citterio reflects on his work with Flexform, and conceiving a sofa as the heart of the home
Antonio Citterio reflects on his work with Flexform, and conceiving a sofa as the heart of the home
Antonio Citterio designed the Groundpiece sofa for Flexform in 2001: twenty years on, we chart the architect’s history of collaboration with the Italian furniture company, and discover his view on redefining domestic interiors
Designer Antonio Citterio at Flexform’s Meda HQ with his bestselling 2001 ‘Groundpiece’ modular sofa. Low and deep, the sofa was designed as
a more relaxed and casual approach to seating.
MAXXI opens a retrospective on Aldo Rossi
The exhibition Aldo Rossi. The architect and the cities is curated by Alberto Ferlenga, was organised in partnership with the Aldo Rossi Foundation curated by Chiara Spangaro and graced by Fausto and Vera Rossi contribution.
ROME
.- A multifaceted, unprecedented, visionary genius. A lover of books, travels, movies and the theatre. Highly cultivated and moved by his out-of-the-ordinary poetic sensitivity. A great innovator and a firm believer in the ethical and cultural role played by architecture in the world.
Following the monographic exhibition dedicated to Gio Ponti in 2019, MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts is now celebrating another worldwide acclaimed Italian architect, Aldo Rossi, whose rich and diverse archive laid down the basis of the MAXXI Architettura Collection, directed by Margherita Guccione, along with those of Enrico Del Debbio, Sergio Musmeci, Pier Luigi Nervi and Carlo Scarpa.