Art
Trumping the Triangle
Places Journal
Washington has long struggled to reconcile lofty national ideals with quotidian urban interests. No part of the capital better reveals this tension than the Federal Triangle.
Cisco Trash Map
Places Journal
On railroads, oil rigs, uranium mines, 7-11 pizzas, Thelma and Louise, ruination, salvage, and the limits of the garbage gaze.
Traces of Traces
Places Journal
On the documentation of military landscapes by four American photographers: Richard Misrach, Jan Faul, Peter Goin, and David Hanson.
Skywatching
Places Journal
Two artists explore spy satellite calibration markers in the desert — and trace the satellites in the sky today.
Gordon Matta-Clark and the Politics of Shared Space
Places Journal
An artist in the era of urban renewal thinks through what it might mean to fully collaborate with local communities.
“We See from Where We Stand”
Places Journal
A survey of artworks created in prison is deeply informed by debates about the systemic inequities of the American criminal justice system, from the cops to the courts to the penitentiary cages.
The Ice
Places Journal
Antarctica is the driest, windiest, coldest, highest — but also lowest — continent on the planet. To photograph in such a place is tantamount to practicing art on another planet.
Tony Smith and the Suburban Sublime
Places Journal
A minimalist’s epiphany on the New Jersey Turnpike. What can we learn about suburbia from avant-garde art?
Go Tell It: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Places Journal
How to balance aesthetic goals with socio-political activism? LaToya Ruby Frazier’s mid-career retrospective poses provocative questions about documentary photography in the art museum.