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Chris Burden
Structural Intergrity
Chris Burden has gone from the bad boy who got shot for his art to an enlightened engineer with nothing left to prove. By Eric Banks
Chris Burden in <em>Kunst Kick</em>
Chris Burden's Shot in the Arm
Watch Chris Burden's transition from art's bad boy to enlightened engineer in these videos.
Aranda/Lasch
Atomic Bonds
The partners of Aranda/Lasch find artistic inspiration in the laws of the universe. By Tim McKeough
1967 Subway Map
Mapping Evolution
Men's Vogue looks at the evolution of the New York subway map. By Ben Popper
Ian Schrager
The Hotel Mogul
Ian Schrager invented the boutique hotel, but he's not done yet. By Martin Schoeller
Michele De Lucchi
Log Jam
A cutting-edge architect puts aside the T square for a chain saw. By Jasper Morrison
Matteo di Montezemolo
Company Man
Matteo di Montezemolo is building a luxury goods empire, one beautifully crafted object at a time. By Cathryn Drake
Philip Guston
Walk the Line
Philip Guston's creepy Klansmen and cartoon Nixons pushed the limits on paper. By Eric Banks
Libertiny
Hive Mentality
Studio Libertiny's designs employ nature — literally — to create a different kind of buzz. By Alexandra Marshall
Libertiny
Buzz Worthy
A video of Libertiny's unqiue art assistants, a swarm of bees, in action. Courtesy of Blender Magazine
Campana
Waxing Brazilian
The Campana brothers bring a touch of the absurd — and serious craftsmanship — to high design. By Mark Rozzo
Vignelli Manhattan
Track Changes
Men's Vogue presents a updated version of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York subway map, a classic of graphic design.
Vignelli Queens
Vignelli's Map
A closer look at Massimo Vignelli's subway map.
Art Attack
Masterpiece Theater
The dramatic fall of one of the art market's highest fliers threatens business as usual. By Kelly Devine Thomas
Wright
Prefab Paradise
A Frank Lloyd Wright house is the perfect HQ for a weekend of architectural touring. By David Hay
Wright
Wright Nights
A renters guide for anyone interested in sleeping in architectural history. By Catherine New
Philippe Starck
Endless Romance
Having conquered land, sea, and air with his hotels, mega-yachts, and spaceships, Philippe Starck is still chasing aesthetic immortality. By Hudson Morgan
Starck
Starck's Inspirations
Men's Vogue presents video of Philippe Starck discussing the elements of great design. Courtesy of ted.com
A Surreal Art Scene
With its star-studded international art fair, the small city-state of Dubai, in the midst of a building boom, has become a destination for the globetrotting art-world elite. By András Szántó
Architect Fritz Haeg
Greener than Grass
Architect Fritz Haeg is on a mission to turn America's front yards into farms. By Tim McKeough
'Three Legged Buddha'
Zhang's Dynasty
With his own brand of shock and awe, a Chinese artist leads his nation toward a new cultural revolution. By Lawrence Osborne
David McDermott and Peter McGough
Past Masters
With a new creative surge, the time is now for a pair of eighties New York art stars who refuse to live in the present. By Mark Rozzo
WORKac
Dream Team
If marriage is a partnership, Dan Wood and Amale Andraos — the architectural wunderkinds behind WORKac — prove this by design. By Tasha Green
Coconut Grove
Miami Minimal
From twisted lampposts to street-corner videos, a couple's no-nonsense creations are as inviting as their Coconut Grove compound. By David Knowles
Solar Impulse
Sun Kings
A pair of Swiss pioneers are gearing up for a 23,000-mile flight around the world fueled only by solar energy. By Giles Smith
Cliff May
Rancho Deluxe
California pioneer Cliff May experiences a modern revival. By Tasha Green
Tony Oursler
Darkness Visible
In Kaukapakapa, New Zealand, New York artist Tony Oursler takes on the biggest, darkest project of his career—as well as a larger-than-life patron hell-bent on building himself the most outlandish private art playground on earth. By Dan Halpern
Frederic Malle
French Twisted
After fleeing Paris, Frédéric Malle and his wife, Marie, fused their Old World perspective with the modern era's greatest hits to turn a New York apartment into their own art project. By Christopher Petkanas
Marlon Brando & Bobby Seale
Father Time
The artist Jeremy Deller curates a show that asks, "What Would Neil Young Do?" By Liz McDaniel
Bill Massie
Light and Magic
With laser-cutting technology and an impeccable sense of place, architect Bill Massie creates a futuristic upstate retreat. By David Hay
Design and the Elastic Mind
Mind Over Matter
A MoMA show asks visitors to wrap their heads around the future. By Tasha Green
Winka Dubbledam
Tectonic Shift
Winka Dubbeldam redefines architecture for the digital age. By Tim McKeough
Black Pussy
Anatomically Incorrect
Before his untimely death, Jason Rhoades completed Black Pussy, one last work that defies everything sacred. By Nathaniel Rich
Ryue Nishizawa
Bearable Lightness
The luminescent and strikingly simple New Museum, by the Japanese firm Sanaa, is much more than the sum of its parts. By Owen Phillips
Piotr Ulanski
Kielbasa Cowboy
A rambunctious puppy, Wild West violence, and a girlfriend's bare behind fuel Piotr Uklański's rough-and-tumble brand of art-making, and it shows in his new cowboy film Summer Love. By Nathaniel Rich
Lee Miller
Seeing It All
From bohemian Paris to the front lines of World War II, Lee Miller shifted the focus of what the world was ready to see. By Mia Fineman
Raymond Loewy's monogrammed briefcase
Brief History
Raymond Loewy protected what he carried to work each day as though the future hinged on it. By Sara James
Marc Benda and Barry Friedman
Manhattan Transfer
A New York gallery icon heads downtown with a wunderkind partner — and a raft of cutting-edge talent — in tow. By Tim McKeough
Julius Shulman
View Finder
The photographs of Julius Shulman remain a luminous embodiment of American architecture. By David Hay
Rem Koolhaas
Organizing Vision
Rem Koolhaas's revolutionary approach to architecture extends to any arena that can be designed, from fashion to geopolitics. By Tim McKeough
Gabriel Orozco
Art of Darkness
Gabriel Orozco trekked through the jungles of Ecuador where he encountered ecological disaster, the threat of guerrilla attacks, and astonishing beauty — inspiration for a new crop of materpieces. By Kevin Conley
David Hertz
Landing Pad
A green-architecture superstar pilots a decommissioned 747 to its new life: a welcoming retreat in Malibu. By Scott Timberg
Brad Cloepfil
Trading Space
Sidestepping the critics, Brad Cloepfil transforms New York's most notorious building — and the challenge of museum design — into a gleaming vision of the future. By Mark Rozzo
Michael Govan
Pacific Time
Upstart New York curator Michael Govan heads west to sculpt Los Angeles into a high-culture capital. By Owen Phillips
J.M.W. Turner
Oil Man
In a giant retrospective, the National Gallery sheds light on the original art star: J.M.W. Turner. By Kelly Devine Thomas

Phillip Johnson's Glass House
Shatterproof
Philip Johnson's Glass House launched an anything-goes architectural Eden. Now modernist veterans and rising stars alike are carrying the iconic box's spirit into the 21st century. By David Hay
Spectacular Bids
From MoMA-worthy furniture to vintage Porsches, an upstart Chicago auction house puts the best of the 20th century under one roof. By Tim McKeough
Miguel Zugaza
The Museum Director
As head of Spain's Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza has ushered one of the world's finest art collections into modern-day prominence. By Giles Tremlett
Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum
Everything Illuminated
Steven Holl sheds light on his new subterranean marvel and on building bridges in Beijing. By Owen Phillips
Nathaniel Rothschild
Landing Pad
He lives on his airplane, but for his New York layovers, Nathaniel Rothschild built a remote-controlled vertical loft — and reinvented the Manhattan town house. By Phoebe Eaton
Headquarters of the New Jersey Barn Company
Frame of Reference
From abandoned East Coast barns to a workshop off L.A.'s Skid Row, Samuel Moyer turns ancient wood into marvels of modern design. By Mark Rozzo
The New Alchemists
The New Alchemists
Watch videos and see slideshows of work by 10 artists who employ everything from ice cream trucks to high explosives in their creations. By Andy Young
John Currin
The Painter
In John Currin's gallery, it's a short trip from the sublime to the ridiculous. By Eric Konigsberg
Walton Ford at his studio
Built Ford Tough
The painter Walton Ford walked across New England with a flask of Scotch, a bottle of Tabasco, and the ghost of Audubon in his backpack. Even at 4,000 feet, his father, the beast he never tamed, was right on his heels. By Kevin Conley
Barnaby Furnas
Patriotic Gore
Brooklyn's Barnaby Furnas transforms bloody chapters of history into Hollywood spectacle. By Mark Van De Walle
Rick Joy's Desert Nomad House
True West
American maverick Rick Joy emerges from Arizona's hostile terrain with a rammed-earth blueprint for architecture's next frontier. By Tim McKeough
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