Nicholas Gerbis

Luis Barragan was arguably the most influential Mexican architect of the 20th century. His works engaged natural settings and pre-existing structures in an arresting interplay of shape and situation, presenting religious and traditional forms within a modernist aesthetic. Basically, Barragan’s vision transformed humble adobe abodes into rectilinear symphonies so striking...

In the words of eight-time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman, “Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weights.” The competitors at the Organization of Competitive Bodybuilders’ Arizona Natural Physique Competition know all about pumping serious iron, with a specialty in cutting up without shooting up. The...

What makes one item vintage and another a Goodwill candidate? Sorting through thrift store rubble, it’s hard to tell what ephemera will make people wistful for days gone by and what junk will make you glad you’re living in the age of the iPhone. The title of Scandinavian painter Virginia...

Because we present works of art in neutral spaces, they sometimes seem to be, as land artist Robert Smithson put it, “going through a kind of aesthetic convalescence.” Seattle-based architects Annie Han and Dan Mihalyo counteract this dilemma with illustrations that detach the space itself in the exhibit “Extended Collapse,”...

If you know Charles Schulz’s cartoon kids solely from greeting cards, holiday specials, and advertisements shilling Dolly Madison (the cakes, not the historical figure), then you might be forgiven for dismissing Snoopy and his friends as saccharine pabulum. If that’s the case, then you definitely don’t know peanuts about Peanuts,...