Month: November 2017

Critics' Picks

Kasper Akhøj and Eileen Gray

Agnieszka Gratza

When Eileen Gray’s ill-fated 1929 architectural gem E-1027—a beautifully proportioned white modernist villa overlooking the sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, near Monaco—opened to the public in 2015, the controversial restoration project that started in 2006 and saw successive teams of architects and administrators undoing and redoing each other’s work was far from over. Continue reading Kasper Akhøj and Eileen Gray

Interviews

Performa 17: Afroglossia and Circulations

Agnieszka Gratza

Adrienne and I have conceived of the two programs Afroglossia and Circulations on their own, but we have sometimes posed similar questions that can be addressed through performance. With the Glass House but also Marching On—a project with Mabel Wilson and Bryony Roberts commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture—political questions of identity were very much our concern. Continue reading Performa 17: Afroglossia and Circulations