The corner of a skyscraper covered in a diamond-shaped pattern made of metal beams appears to recede into a blue sky. Issue 04 Table of Contents

The United Steelworkers Building. Photo: Raymund Ryan

Interludes Issue 04

With the implementation of social distancing measures, the ways that many of us live and work from day to day have undergone radical changes. Small interludes—a walk, a phone or video call, a meal—punctuate our lives, marking the passage of time while calling our attention to the present moment. While our doors are temporarily closed, our staff and members of our community offer us glimpses of the ways that they are responding to these changes.

  1. Invitation to Pretend by Aleem Hurst

  2. So Much Left to Do, Still: Regaining Purpose During a Pandemic by Tara Fay

  3. In Dialogue: Paper Buck and Nicole Heller by Paper Buck

  4. With Diligence and Care: Celebrating Memorial Day through the Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris by Dominique Luster

  5. In Dialogue: An-My Lê and Viet Thanh Nguyen by An-My Lê

  6. Doorknobs and Disinfectants by Rachel Delphia

  7. An Architectural Tour of a City on Pause: Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle by Raymund Ryan

Series

Photo Essay Car parked in overgrown bushes behind a house.

A Son Reckons with His Father’s Past Lives

Photographer Mark Clowney reflects on the legacy left by his father, and the connections between the photography of father and son.

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Required Reading Two children stand in front of spraying water, with one child walking in the back.

‘Your Generation Must Come to Terms with the Environment,’ and Other Stories

With Earth Day behind us, our articles this week reflect on the different ways artists and organizations illuminate just how severely we've damaged the planet.

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Studio Visit Open doorway with a view of a large workspace dotted with wooden sculptures.

In Thaddeus Mosley’s Northside Studio, Sculpture Becomes Sacred Practice

Inside the Northside studio of legendary sculptor Thaddeus Mosley.

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Topics

Architecture Lina Bo Bardi, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, 1977

The Woman in the Glass House: Lina Bo Bardi and the Pritzker Prize

Sarah Rafson discusses influential Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s life and work through the lens of architecture’s enduring gender disparities.

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Contemporary Art View of the museum's Heinz Galleries with a visitor pausing to look at Kara Walker's The Emancipation Approximation.

Those Marvelous Things: Black Poets and Their Complex of Visual Songs

Both a plea and a polemic, this powerful essay revises how we think about Black art and artists.

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Teenie Harris Archive A double-exposed black and white photograph of a woman playing piano onstage.

Nina Simone and the Blurred Line Between Public and Private Life

Niela Orr explores Charles "Teenie" Harris's double exposure of Nina Simone, one of the more arresting images the photographer captured during his decades long career.

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