Vertical Geometries | The City in Art
Vertical Geometries by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Today’s issue of The City in Art returns to another innovative painting by the Swiss artist Paul Klee. The striking image Klee...
View ArticleA Compressed City of Time in Light | The City in Art
Wassily Kandinsky’s Moscow I (1916), oil on canvas, 49.5 x 51.5 cm, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. A Compressed City of Time in Light | The City in Art by Mark David Major, The Outlaw...
View ArticleHavana, Cuba | Photographic Essay, Part 1
Havana, Cuba | Photographic Essay Part 1 of a brief photographic essay of architecture and urban space in Havana, Cuba courtesy of Concrete Blonde. In terms of urbanism, the most interesting aspects of...
View ArticleHavana, Cuba | Photographic Essay, Part 2
Part 2 of a brief photographic essay of architecture and urban space in Havana, Cuba courtesy of Concrete Blonde. Again, the urban vocabulary of Havana is remarkably consistent: the street life of...
View ArticlePoor Richard 1.0 | Now Available on Kindle
Poor Richard, AN Almanac for Architects and Planners (2013) offered anew proverbs and witticisms about the architecture, urban design and planning of our cities. It was hailed as a “worthwhile”,...
View ArticlePoor Richard Volume 2 is Now Available
Poor Richard, An Almanac for Architects and Planners (2013) offered anew proverbs and witticisms about the architecture, urban design and planning of our cities. It was hailed as a “worthwhile”,...
View ArticleBathe in New Light | The City in Art
Rejcel Harbert’s Under Neons (2010), 16″ x 20″, acrylic on stretched canvas, Art by Rejcel. Bathe in New Light By Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Neon, noun, ne·on, \ˈnē-ˌän\ – a...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | Creative Confessions and other writings | Paul Klee
FROM THE VAULT | Creative Confessions and other writings by Paul Klee by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Creative Confessions is a series of short essays (vignettes, really) by Modern...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | Paul Klee on Modern Art
FROM THE VAULT | Paul Klee on Modern Art by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Paul Klee on Modern Art (with Introduction by Herbert Read) is the text of a lecture delivered in 1924 at...
View ArticleReimagining the urban | art and public space
A global search to find the planet’s most outstanding public art will culminate in an awards ceremony, exhibition and conference in Auckland in early July. The 2015 International Award for Public Art...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | The New Architecture and the Bauhaus | Walter Gropius
FROM THE VAULT The New Architecture and the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius The first 97 pages of The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (MIT Press) by Walter Gropius (with Foreword by Frank Pick) is a...
View ArticlePoor Richard Volume 2 is Now Available
Poor Richard, An Almanac for Architects and Planners (2013) offered anew proverbs and witticisms about the architecture, urban design and planning of our cities. It was hailed as a “worthwhile”,...
View ArticleFROM THE VAULT | Concerning the Spiritual in Art
FROM THE VAULT Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky “It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought.”...
View ArticleThe dark side of the city | BBC Culture
Interesting article on BBC Culture this morning about the depiction of urban loneliness in the paintings of Edward Hopper based on excerpts from The Lonely City, a new book by Olivia Laing. Excerpt:...
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