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"For Siah Armajani, building was more than an intellectual exercise: it was also a search for home," writes Vicky Sung in remembrance of the Tehran-born, Minneapolis-based artist who passed away August 27 at age 81. Best known for pioneering public artworks that exist at the intersection of art and architecture, Armajani's six-decade career saw the artist exploring science, politics, and place, all in service to a deeply personal philosophy of being.

A Builder in Search of Home: Remembering Siah Armajani (1939–2020) "For Siah Armajani, building was more than an intellectual exercise: it was also a search for home," writes Victoria Sung in remembrance of the Tehran-born, Minneapolis-based artist who passed away August 27 at age 81. Best known for pioneering public artworks that exist at the intersection of art a...

In conversation with Ana Janevski, artist Simone Forti talks about how she's been occupying herself during pandemic, from making a series of paper-bag drawings to inventing the masque-culotte, a COVID mask made from underpants.

Simone Forti’s Bag Drawings | Magazine | MoMA In this interview, the artist reflects on crawling, art-making, and seemingly arbitrary objects.

The Many Faces of : Art historian Isabelle Loring Wallace looks at the recurring motif of the fractured face in Johns's art and its surprising link to references from Picasso and Grünewald to a 1950s drawing by a girl with schizophrenia.

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Pictured: Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1988.