PIN–UP | Exhibitions

Faith, Place and Chance: Rose Salane’s Lost Objects Fill in the Gaps of History

By Samantha Ozer

A New Look for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, courtesy Selldorf Architects

By Whitney Mallett

SHELLS AND SKINS: The Body Is a Home at Del Vaz Projects

By Samantha Ozer

Speaking in Tongues: on the Swiss Institute’s Sable Elyse Smith-Curated Annual Architecture and Design Series

By Almog Cohen-Kashi

DETROIT BAROQUE: On Chris Schanck’s Corroded Majesty

By Brecht Wright Gander

ALMOST 100: Happy Birthday Agustín Hernández

By Suleman Anaya

At Sized in Los Angeles, Vessels Is a Metaphor

By Emily R. Pellerin

Hollow Insides, Bodily Outsides: Peter Schlesinger Tours Us Around His Ceramic Vessels

By Osman Can Yerebakan

What Artist Brie Ruais Knows – And Still Doesn’t Know – About Being in a Body

By Emily R. Pellerin

SWEET SUBVERSIONS: DIS Curates the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva

By Drew Zeiba

VIDEO: Caribbean Architecture Explored Through its Own Material History

By Sucking Salt

UZBEK PAVILION CURATORS CHRIST & GANTENBEIN ON MAHALLAS AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN LIVING

By Natalia Torija Nieto

In Search of a New Spatial Contract at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale

By Andrew Pasquier

SUN CITY: The Mannerist Devotional Flair of Soft Baroque’s First Solo Exhibition in Milan

By Alice Bucknell

Material Promiscuity: Objects USA and the Evolution of American Craft

By Jesse Dorris

INTERVIEW: Curator Alia Farid On The Space Between Classrooms And New Types Of Learning

By Drew Zeiba

“TAN,” An Installation by Soft Baroque Presented by PIN–UP and Marsell

By PIN–UP

INTERVIEW: Maria Cristina Didero And Jorge Penades On Curating Curators

By Natalia Torija Nieto

TOTAL SPACE: A Disorienting Exhibition For Disorienting Times

By Alice Bucknell

INTERVIEW: Artist David Hartt Discusses Place, Race, and Black Authorship

By Felix Burrichter

EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS: How Fruit And Food Packaging Inspire Jonathan Trayte’s Sculptural Furniture

By Brecht Wright Gander

BONNETCORE: Designer Katie Stout Curates A Selection Of Shaker Craft

By Camille Okhio

Artist Genevieve Goffman Makes Fantasy Architectural Models To Explore History’s Complexities

By Matt Shaw

COMING TO LIGHT: Artist Woody De Othello’s Wonky Domestic Vision In Miami

By Ade Omotosho

HOUSE PARTY: Alex da Corte Deconstructs the American Media Psyche in Shanghai

By Samuel Anderson

INTERVIEW: Akeem Smith On Recreating The Architecture Of Jamaican Dancehall

By Felix Burrichter

GREEN ROOM: The Planter Show Organized By Fort Makers Design Studio

By Karina Encarnación

LEARNING CURVE: Faye Toogood Explores Truth and Knowing in Her New Exhibition

By Camille Okhio

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE: A Posthumous Paris Rendezvous at the Pompidou

By Andrew Ayers

From Studio 54 To Carl Craig, A Wave of Dance Fever Hits The Exhibition Circuit

By Jesse Dorris

MASA Nomadic Design Gallery Took Over a Castle in Mexico City

By Samantha Ozer

Koolhaas’s Countryside Show Spirals At The Guggenheim

By Andrew Pasquier

Wearables Exhibition Spotlights Intimacy and One-Off Economics

By Alice Bucknell

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: Mayrit and the Madrid Design Festival

By Andrew Ayers

LIVING WITH SCHINDLER: All The Angles

By Susan Orlean

INTERVIEW: Artist Sarah Zapata On Ugly Colors AND Fetishizing Yarn

By Mekala Rajagopal

OMAR SOSA’S “COMFORT” SHOW EMBRACES DOMESTIC UNEASE

By Jesse Dorris

ARTIST NIK KOSMAS EXPLORES THE AESTHETICS OF SCI-FI ARTISANAL FETISH

By Eduardo Andrés Alfonso

INTERVIEW: Rich Aybar Makes Rubber Furniture and Documentary

By Emily Segal

DESIGN DISPATCH: Favorites from the Miami Design Fair

By Sansho Scott

MIRAGE: Artist Doug Aitken’s Reflections On the Ranch-Style Home

By Whitney Mallett

MONUMENTAL: Nona Faustine Reveals Historical DistortionS In Public Space

By Mekala Rajagopal

Big Ideas Economically Realized At The Lisbon Architecture Triennale

By Andrew Ayers

INTERVIEW: Raf Simons Feels at Home Designing The Fabrics of Our Lives

By Felix Burrichter

A Show at the Schindler House Harnesses The Soft Power Of Plural Storytelling

By Emma Leigh Macdonald

Didactics and Diversity at the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial

By Drew Zeiba

Artist Jacolby Satterwhite’s Euphoric Universe Traverses Digital and Physical REALMS

By Mahfuz Sultan

AUSTRIANS IN AMERICA: How Transatlantic Exchange Shaped Modernist Architecture

By Akiva Blander

Cruising Pavilion considers the Architecture of Queer Sex, from Grindr to Glory Holes

By Michael Bullock

Artist Duo Zheng Mahler Studies Architectural Utopia via Cyberpunk Anthropology

By Jeppe Ugelvig

ARE CHAIRS ART? A DESIGN DEBUTANTE DISCOVERS THE VERSATILITY OF SEATING

By Picasso Moore

INTERVIEW: Shumon Basar Talks “Age Of You” Exhibition And The Extreme Self

By Eva Munz

ART, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE: The Lake Como Design Fair Does it All

By Andrew Ayers

OBJECT MANOR: CHARLAP HYMAN & HERRERO’S TRIBUTE TO MARIO PRAZ

By Osman Can Yerebakan

CALCULATED DISORDER: Carsten Höller Puts On A Delirious Show in Mexico

By Drew Zeiba

ERRATA: A Design Exhibition About Books and Mistakes

By Natalia Torija Nieto

ENCOUNTERS: A First Guest Curated Show at Cristina Grajales Gallery

By Natalia Torija Nieto

VENICE 2019: The Rise of the Urban Biennale

By Vere van Gool

TRACES, ECHOES, SKINS: Heidi Bucher’s Meditations On Memory

By Drew Zeiba

BACK TO THE ROOTS: Interview With Storefront’s New Chief Curator José Esparza Chong Cuy

By Drew Zeiba

MEMORY LANE: An Exhibition about Design, Childhood, and Nostalgia

By Pierre Alexandre de Looz

Every Object Tells A Story: Interview with Curator Alexandra Cunningham Cameron

By Drew Zeiba

Glenn Adamson’s Favorite Objects and Things

By Glenn Adamson

Jessi Reaves’s New Body of Work

By Tess Edmonson

ROCK STARS: Chen Chen and Kai Williams’s new Mineral Explorations

By Drew Zeiba

INTERVIEW: IdeasCity Curator Mitch McEwen on New Orleans and Fruitful Speculations

By Drew Zeiba

LAND ARTISTIC: Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s New Visitor Center by Feilden Fowles

By George Kafka

ISLAND GLOW: Michael Anastassiades Makes a Big Show in Nicosia

By Andrew Ayers

TURNING TABLES: Filip Samuel Berg Honors Design’s Forgotten Typology

By Jeppe Ugelvig

MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL 2019: FROM SPANISH GRANDEES TO THE BLACK MARKET

By Andrew Ayers

Architectural Follies: Totally Useless but Oh So Necessary

By Andrew Ayers

The Marbled Approximations of the Artist Lauren Clay

By Drew Zeiba

BOOK CLUB: The Notional Architectures of Bodys Isek Kingelez

By Pierre Alexandre de Looz

HUTS FOR HANDS: Fragments of an It-Narrative in Nano

By Emma McCormick-Goodhart

WELCOME TO THE SCROLLHOUSE

By Taylore Scarabelli

SMALL VIOLENCES

By Drew Zeiba

CHARLOTTE’S DARK WEB

By Micaela Durand

MATTER IS LIGHT: Getting Lost with Per Kirkeby at Château La Coste

By Andrew Ayers

boolProp testingcheats enabled true, or: The Critical Dollhouse

By Jeppe Ugelvig

NOTES ON A SCANDAL: Interview with Kimberli Meyer, Former Director of Long Beach’s University Art Museum

By Mimi Zeiger

OPEN SOURCE DESIGN: The chairs of Oscar Hagerman

By Natalia Torija Nieto

DIOR IN DENVER: Not Your Average OMA

By Whitney Mallett

EXHIBITION REVIEW: 44 Low Resolution Houses

By Michaela Friedberg and Carly Richman

100 Years of Castiglioni: His Geologist Daughter Digs Into the Designer’s Layered Legacy

By Felix Burrichter

An EDUCATIONAL U-TURN: Review of the 2018 Istanbul Design Biennial

By Jeppe Ugelvig

Piano Non Forte: The Work of Renzo Piano Building Workshop at The Royal Academy

By George Kafka

YUGOTOPIA: The Glory Days of Yugoslav Architecture On Display

By David Huber

ECCE HOMO: In Venice An Exhibition Hopes to save Europe through Craftsmen

By Andrew Ayers

INTERVIEW with Artist Suki Seokyeong Kang about Shape, Form, Weight, And Space

By Jeppe Ugelvig

The Art of Daniel Boudinet, or the City at Cibachrome Cruising Speed

By Andrew Ayers

Donald Judd’s Very Specific Furniture

By Natalia Torija Nieto

Model Redux at BronxArtSpace: Reviving the Participatory Community

By Vivien Lee

A DESIGN LOVER’S LISTICLE: R&Company’s Nine Favorite Shows from the Past 20 Years

By PIN–UP

A WEAK MONUMENT: THE ESTONIAN PAVILION AT THE 2018 VENICE BIENNALE

By James Taylor-Foster

Peggy Guggenheim, Inadvertent Patron Of Avant-garde Architecture

By David Michon

FREE ROAMING: A Review of the 2018 Venice Biennale

By Jordan Hruska

DEUTSCHE SWANK: AN EXHIBITION ON 1980s GERMAN AVANT-GARDE DESIGN

By Stephanie Murg

MACHINES FOR DANCING: Club Design and the Evolution of Desire, Seduction, and Utopia

By Tamar Shafrir

PHILIPPE RAHM’S HOLISTIC DECOR IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

By Alex Tieghi-Walker

DRAWN TO LIFE: The Early Work of Arakawa and Gins

By Nolan Boomer

POSTER POLITICS: An Exhibition About Graphic Design and Political Activism 

By George Kafka

ARCHIVO MEXICO: Interview With Mario Ballesteros on Rescuing Mexico's Architectural Heritage

By Vivien Lee

CHRIS SCHANCK, INVENTOR OF ALUFOIL, PAYS HOMAGE TO THE GARDENS OF DETROIT’S BANGLATOWN IN HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW

By Michael Bullock

POOL POLITICS: An Exhibition About the Architecture of Private Pools

By Andrew Ayers

KITCHEN MIXERS, MANOLOS, AND MORE: THE INAUGURAL MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL

By Andrew Ayers

WHEN ARCHITECTS DESIGN FOR THE HOME: Two Current Exhibitions Take Stock

By Tiffany Lambert

GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY: ALLAN D’ARCANGELO’S HAUNTING AMERICANA

By Alice Bucknell

THE MASTER AND FORM: Brendan Fernandes’ Exploration of Space, People, and Power

By Sean Santiago

2017: ANOTHER YEAR OF BIENNIAL FEVER

By Andrew Ayers

FIELD EXPERIMENTS: HARDLY TOGETHER

By Drew Zeiba

PILE UP: The Fantastic World of Misha Kahn

By Natalia Torija Nieto

NOMADIC COMFORT: AT HOME WITH ARTISTS SLAVS AND TATARS

By Johann Clausen

POM-POM-PIDOU: FRANCESCO VEZZOLI REVERTS THE LEGENDARY PARISIAN MUSEUM INTO A FUN PALACE

By Andrew Ayers

FAIR REVIEW: RECENT IMPRESSIONS FROM CHICAGO

By Jennifer Piejko

THE FEMALE GLAZE: Valentina Cameranesi’s CERAMICS IN TOULON

By Matylda Krzykowski

ARE WE HUMAN?: A VISIT TO THE ISTANBUL BIENNALE

By Shumi Bose

IN TRANSIT: A VISIT TO THE OSLO ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE

By Andrew Ayers

A FORMAL OCCASION: THE LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE

By Andrew Ayers

FIVE HIGHLIGHTS FROM BEIJING DESIGN WEEK

By Amy Qin

PROGRESSLAND: A DESIGN EXHIBITION CHALLENGES NARRATIVES OF HUMAN ADVANCEMENT

By Natalia Torija Nieto

HIDDEN PLEASURES: AN EXHIBITION UNCOVERS BARRY DIERKS’S VILLA LA REINE JEANNE

By Andrew Ayers

LIFE IN RUINS: BAS PRINCEN AND OFFICE KGDVS’S MODEL FOR A PAVILION

By Jesús Vassallo

THE REAL STATE OF ISTANBUL: SERDAR BILGILI BELIEVES IN THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ART (AND BUSINESS)

By Sean Santiago

BYZANTINE BLUES: TURKEY MEETS BELGIUM AT THE EUROPALIA ARTS FESTIVAL

By Andrew Ayers

DESIGN COLUMN #2: FRAGMENTS FROM LONDON

By Pepa Shores

CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE INSPIRES RON NAGLE’S TINY SCULPTURES

By Melissa Gamwell

DECOR MEETS FINE ART IN AN EXHIBITION AT THE VILLA SAUBER

By Alessandro Bava

Michael Hirschbichler’S DYSTOPIAN FANTASIES

By Jesse Coburn

APPROXIMATIONS OF A BELGIAN DOMESTIC HERITAGE

By Zac Rose