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Architect William Pereira's 1973 Times Mirror building in downtown L.A. makes a special appearance in Netflix's 'Griselda' as a signifier of cocaine excess.

What is madness? What if madness isn’t a defective form of reasoning, but a distinctive style of reasoning?

"Made in L.A." is back in expanded space at the Hammer Museum. Plus, art and Black Sabbath and playwright Annie Baker's latest in our weekly arts newsletter

Summer is here, and whether youre on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.  Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases, Books Every...

In April of 2007 I directed a week of metal detecting at sites in Östergötland where there was a potential for an elite presence in the period AD 400-1000. These investigations were part of a project that I published in my 2011 book Mead-halls of the Eastern Geats.

The letters of Paul, or the Pauline Corpus as it is known, are crucial to the scriptures and to Christianity as a whole.  There are twenty-seven books in

An exhibition at USC's Pacific Asia Museum, 'After Modernism: Through the Lens of Wayne Thom,' is dedicated to the architecture photographer's work documenting a key era of 20th century architecture.

On June 3rd, Dragon Horse Agency officially opens a new office in the iconic 100 Wilshire Building in Santa Monica, CA, sitting on the Pacific Ocean's

Pandemic Conversations: Gender, Marginalities, and COVID-19 We do not know if we live in a world any more risky than those of earlier generations. It is not the quantity of risk, but the quality of control or—to be more precise—the known uncontrollability of the consequences of civilisational decisions, that makes the historical difference. Therefore, I use the term “manufactured uncertainties.” The institutionalised expectation of control, even the leading ideas of “certainty” and...

Print Architecture photographer Wayne Thom lived at the Bonaventure hotel for a week in 1977 as preparation for taking one of his most iconic images. To shoot the sculptural elegance of John Portman’s building, Thom woke at 4 a.m., positioned himself on the offramp of the 110 Freeway and readied to catch the sunrise. In the resulting photograph, the hotel’s cylindrical forms rise Oz-like from downtown Los Angeles, the curved facades reflecting the colors of dawn. “I light the building wit...