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An oddity to many, a problem to some, and an icon to few: Atlanta’s Olympic Cauldron, (fondly) revisited.
with photographs by Johnathon Kelso

Synchronizing the world of commerce means attempting to overcome time and space. A study of logistics with a photo essay on UPS by Dustin Chambers.

Alexis Wilkinson and Xandra Ibarra discuss cockroach consciousness.

In 2019, women protagonists become the avengers for systemic violence.

Karen Tauches reads the natal charts of five American arts institutions.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robert Horvitz explores NASA’s Get-Away Special program, and how artists such as Lowry Burgess and Joseph McShane used the program for early experiments with artworks in space.

Patricia Eunji Kim and Mashinka Firuntz Hakopian discuss monuments as physical evidence against cultural erasure, their role in preserving indigenous Armenian histories, and augmented reality as a site for activism and memorialization.

The history of architecture and sufficiency suggests a porosity in the rigid distinctions that have characterized the field’s erstwhile attentions, which so often focus upon heroic figures engaged in the development of progressive design techniques. It turns instead to a chronologically heterogeneous array of climate and solar design strategies—regionally specific and culturally conditioned—that have emerged over a much longer period, and with less attention to formalist pedigrees, to consider design methods for life after fossil fuels.

In an effort to suture the communicative divide between Middle Eastern and American cultures, an artist nourishes discourse through the palate, and the tongue.

These glossaries are far from exhaustive, but they may be useful for understanding the jargon of labor organizing.

Every week, after the Friday prayer, my dad would drag me along with him to the main fish market in Kuwait—where I lived until I was seventeen—to buy our seafood, raw and wriggling.