Episode 99: The Space Between

This week, Michael and Jessica discuss Hilma af Klint, the artist and mystic whose Paintings for the Future are on view at the Guggenheim through April 23.

For designers and painters alike, Jessica says,

the hardest thing is to invent a new way to do something and say something and show something, to invent a new visual language.

Also mentioned this week:

• Roberta Smith, New York Times, ‘Hilma Who?’ No More
• Christine Burgin, Hilma af Klint, Notes and Methods
• Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, Hilma af Klint’s Visionary Paintings
• Washington Post obituary of Kevin Roche,
• Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo Associates, In Memoriam
• Alexandra Lange, Curbed, Inside the Proposed Changes to the Landmarked Ford Foundation
• A House to Live With: Paul Rand in Esquire, 1953
• Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment
• Alexandra Lange, Design Observer, Making the Modern House Home (2011)
• Lange’s Twitter thread about Roche
• Alexander Girard studio
• modern midwest a.k.a. Josh Lipnik on Twitter
• Design Observer, Fifteen Minutes of Fame
• Saturday Night Live, Michael Cohen hearing
• SNL, Brett Kavanaugh hearing

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