"The Geffen Galleries are the product of two minds that succeeded in making sense of LA's polyglot urban form and eternally slippery civic identity"
I've read a lot about the new LACMA and this by @hawthorne.bsky.social is by far the best thing written about it:
www.punchlistmag.com/p/zumthor-ea...
thank you!
"I don’t remember Cisco possessing even a shred of cultural cachet. There was nothing cool about Sun Microsystems. But if your parents mentioned meeting somebody who worked for Apple, your ears perked up a little."
"If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s and ’80s, as I did, you felt a certain minor pride in sharing a home region with the Apple Computer Company, as the startup was known when it was founded, fifty years ago this week, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne."
just updated my post to include this:
A special midweek Punch List essay. As Eric Trump would say, "Enjoy!"
www.punchlistmag.com/p/trump-s-pr...
Instead of a Porsche, the once-scrappy institution has treated itself, as it nears its 50th birthday, to a sleek and pricey (if shoddy!) Koolhaas
By an insanely fresh, sharp, and precise @hawthorne.bsky.social
www.punchlistmag.com/p/review-the...
A brutal (but seemingly fair) decapitation of OMA’s New Museum addition @hawthorne.bsky.social www.punchlistmag.com/p/review-the...
Bruce Pearl insists Auburn can still get in if Mike Pence will do the right thing.
Get Bruce Pearl off my television.
GO CRY MORE BRUCE PEARL
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
“Often, and this of course is odd for a manifesto, he writes the way Gensler makes architecture, or maybe the way Oprah might gush abt, say, the good works of Meghan + Harry while all three sit beneath the bougainvillea on a Montecito terrace… The role in this enterprise of Verso… remains puzzling.”
“I believe there is a place for the fellow who yells fire and indicates where some of the smoke is coming from without actually dragging the hose to the spot.”—Nathanael West
After a disastrous run two years, Will Lewis is OUT as CEO and publisher of The Washington Post. Jeff D'Onofrio steps in as interim boss.
Definitely interesting.
"“The problem is bigger than BIG”: Architecture and labor rights clash in London", by @hawthorne.bsky.social and Lev Bratishenko.
www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-proble...
The more I read about Gaudi’s life, the more convinced I become that he’d be the ideal subject for a Paul Scrader biopic
This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
“Looking to private developers to undo nearly a century of car-centric urban planning in American cities, one small development at a time, is by definition a Sisyphean task. This is a job instead for broad-based public policy to take on.”
@hawthorne.bsky.social on Culdesac
@hawthorne.bsky.social on the peril and promise of Culdesac: "A cautionary tale about the limits of the sort of urban change that’s driven not by community consensus or enlightened policymaking but by private developers selling a particular lifestyle."
www.punchlistmag.com/p/kicking-th...
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Thanks Susan!
Books on this list by @paulgoldberger.bsky.social @mlamster.bsky.social @langealexandra.bsky.social & many more
I wrote about the LA fires as their first anniversary approaches:
www.punchlistmag.com/p/year-in-re...
also tania maria better get an oscar nomination for supporting actress
there is a little visual joke in one of the very last scenes of The Secret Agent, a riff on the movie’s minor obsession with Jaws, that pleased me no end, and that I’ve yet to see any critics make mention of
