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I Went to the Venice Biennale and Saw the Future

Curated by Lesley Lokko, Venice’s Biennale Architettura 2023 challenges dominant narratives of architectural production, shifting focus toward decolonization and decarbonization.

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The Armory Show Addresses “Fair Fatigue” with a Flexible Layout by Frederick Fisher and Partners

On view September 9 through 11 at Manhattan’s Javits Center, the art fair takes cues from the city to help visitors get around intuitively. 

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Piero Gilardi’s Nature Carpets Merge Art and Everyday Life

On view at New York's Magazzino Italian Art through January 2023, Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura is the artist's first museum retrospective in the United States.

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In Copenhagen, a Spotlight is Shone on Overlooked Women in Architecture

On view at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen, Women in Architecture highlights contemporary women architects through three site-specific installations.

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Ryan Decker Creates an Immersive Neo-Medieval Installation at Superhouse

The designer's first solo show, Ryan Decker: Feudal Relief, is on view at the Manhattan design gallery through July 3.

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Vitra Design Museum Explores Design’s Complicated Relationship with Plastic 

Plastic. Remaking Our World surveys the past and future of the controversial material. 

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Three Textile Exhibitions Prove Fabric Is an Enduring Medium for Storytelling

Joana Vasconcelos at MassArt Art Museum, Legacy Russell’s The New Bend at Hauser & Wirth, and Stitched at Paula Cooper Gallery examine the ways in which textile artists weave stories.

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Salon 94 Recreates Kate Millett’s 1967 Fantasy Furniture Exhibition

Prior to releasing her seminal text Sexual Politics in 1970, artist and activist Kate Millett explored the relationship between power and gender through furniture.

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Objects of Common Interest Gets Up Close and Personal with Isamu Noguchi

The Noguchi Museum’s Hard, Soft, and All Lit Up with Nowhere to Go exhibition draws striking parallels between the contemporary studio and the influential master. 

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An Exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center Remembers Helmut Jahn

The architect, who died tragically this year, is survived by an iconoclastic and imaginative architectural oeuvre.

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A Houston Exhibition Reimagines Links Between the Built Environment and Nature

Drawings at the Menil Collection ponder the fanciful, while addressing social unrest and ecological concerns.

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Berlin’s Architectural Transition to Postmodernism Gets an Overdue Examination

The Berlinische Galerie's exhibition Anything Goes? recounts how a global, contradictory Postmodernism took root on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.

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A New Exhibition Makes Motherhood Visible Through Design

Organized by Egg Collective and Tealia Ellis Ritter, Designing Women III: MOTHER brings together 28 artists and designers—all of them mothers.