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Alexandra Lange|Essays

“We Can’t Really Pay”

All of you print people who scorned bloggers but have moved into blogging and helm publications that “blog,” earth to you: You don’t pay.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Pomo Time Machine

I’m writing more about Warren Platner, my favorite terribly wonderful or wonderfully terrible architect.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

My .02 on the Whitney

Everyone has taken their shot at outrage regarding the Whitney's move to a Renzo Piano building at the base of the High Line.

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John Thackara|Essays

What Should Design Critics Write About?

Address to MFA students in the School of Visual Arts' Design Criticism program, April 30, 2010.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Anti-Enthusiasts

Design Blogs: The Vacuum of Enthusiasm, my Design Observer manifesto on what the world of design on the internet needs, lives on in the comments.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Jane Jacobs Is Still Watching

Despite my dislike of Jane Jacobs's beef with architects and planners, so many points seem strangely prescient.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

On Archpaper: Saccharine Design

My review of Marcel Wanders’ exhibition Daydreams at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for The Architect’s Newspaper just went online and let’s just say I was not impressed.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Straw Men Redux

I can't help but compare and contrast Nicolai Ourossoff's opening sentences of his recent work.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

What I Learned @dcritconference

The D-Crit Conference is just a memory, so as a tribute to the afternoon presentations I saw, I offer a set of tangents.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Confessions and Criticism

I am not a fan of TMI, the confessional mode, or the sense one gets that the best way to make it as a woman in the media business is to write about yourself.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Junior Critics

One of the pleasures of teaching is when your students actually surprise you.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Approving of the Approval Matrix

Now that Bravo just bought the TV show based on New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix, who says criticism is dead?

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Ellen McGirt

The Design Observer annual gift guide!

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Cinema

Alexis Haut

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

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Sheena Medina

What now?

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Aimee Allison

Make a Plan to Vote ft. Genny Castillo, Danielle Atkinson of Mothering Justice