Art and Society

de zeen  - Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in a rural lake town about two hours from Mexico City, this sunken home is accessed via an exterior staircase. -read more ...

Artsy - The prices of U.S. consumer goods hit a staggering 7% annual increase this week, marking the fastest rate of inflation in four decades.  - read more...

domus - The Institut Catholique of Paris wants to make Notre-Dame a religious space capable of welcoming visitors from outside the Christian culture, but the idea has not received universal praise. - read more ...

Durer - Thought to be a 20th-century reproduction, the drawing by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer was bought at a house clearance sale. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - While peeling away layers of plaster as part of routine preparations for a building repair project, a team of restorers in England made “the discovery of a lifetime.”  - read more...

NY Times - A Sotheby’s executive called the court-ordered sale on Monday night “the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged.” - read more ...

DW - The original Superman's son, Jon Kent, has revealed that he is bisexual in a new DC comic. Here are some other LGBTQ figures from the DC and Marvel fantasy worlds. - read more ...

Hyperallergic  - Twenty color photographs from Paz Errázuriz’s La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) (1982-87), a photographic series that tenderly documented a community of Chilean trans sex workers in Santiago an...

dumus - After an international competition, Ennead Architects has been chosen to design the new International Performance Center in Shenzhen (China), one of the world’s leading technology capitals. - read more ...

The New York Times  - Overdue career tributes and shows on West African textiles and the Great Migration demonstrate museums responding to global movement and demographic shifts. - read more ...