Architektur

Working with traditional ‘technologies’, artists show how the past might hold answers for the future

On the odd fraternity between investor Peter Thiel and literary theorist René Girard

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

New arrangements of artists from across the planet emphasize broad concepts over tidier organizing principles 

In the third edition of the biennial, progressive politics and BP sponsorship underscore the tensions between discourse and direct action