EVER SINCE CLAUDE MONET recorded gray smokestacks on the riverbanks at Argenteuil, France, industrial modernity has stood at the heart of artistic production. Think Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry Murals,” 1932–33, Charles Sheeler’s crisscrossing conveyor belts, or Bernd and Hilla Becher’s taxonomic grids. Yet few if any of these artists can claim to have experienced these […]
Coming from Los Angeles and its housing issues—born of its charming but inefficient sprawl—it’s impossible to see urban density, and the juxtapositions it creates, as the sign of a well-functioning, twenty-first-century city.
Works by Futoshi Miyagi, Sung Hwan Kim, Lieko Shiga, Megan Cope, Rose B. Simpson, Stephanie Syjuco, Jumana Manna, Teresita Fernández at this year's Hawai'i Triennial.