Theory + Criticism

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Straw Men Redux

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

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.

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.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Junior Critics

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

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?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

All in the Execution

Ian Baldwin's review of The Grid Book calls out the coffee-table book format and it's middlebrow achievements.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Please Join Us

I'm looking forward to the upcoming D-Crit Conference on April 30, 2010.

Mark Dery|Reviews

Bunker of Broken Dreams

Review of "Landscapes of Quarantine," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. March 9–April 17, 2010.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Every Thing Design: Can I Play Too?

Alice Rawsthorn, whom I generally want to grow up to be, writes in today’s T about Every Thing Design, Dutch designer Irma Boom’s latest book based on the collections of the Museum of Design, Zurich.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Anthony Lane Fugs Too

Anthony Lane pans The Clash of the Titans.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design Adjacent

There’s a theme in the comments on my Design Observer piece on design blogs, The Vacuum of Enthusiasm, that there is little for me to say about.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Texts Without Context

I keep thinking about Michiko Kakutani’s piece, Texts Without Context, that begins the discussion of what is being lost to culture by the supremacy of the web.