Samuel Cochran

The Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico, which opened in Mexico City earlier this year, is a powerful study in storytelling. Designed by Gaeta-Springall Arquitectos, the project doesn’t communicate a specific narrative but instead invites ongoing dialogue, with 70 Cor-Ten-steel slabs (many of them upwards of 40 feet tall) onto which visitors can scribble or carve their own thoughts and tributes. The monumental tableau punctuates, at regular intervals, nearly four acres of Chapultepec Fores…

The year is ending on an especially high note for KAWS—a New York artist celebrated for reinterpreting graffiti motifs and cartoon icons (Garfield, Felix the Cat, SpongeBob) in everything from paintings to large-scale sculptures to toys. His latest creations are now on view through December 21 in dual Manhattan shows: Galerie Perrotin is presenting colorful, playfully shaped canvases, and Mary Boone’s Chelsea space displays monumental teak figures. “I’m not thinking about a narrative, just the a…

Ralph Pucci has a history of defying expectations at his New York and Los Angeles galleries, where he showcases the work of some of today’s top designers. His latest surprise is the location of his third outpost, which opened in Miami in December. Rather than settle in South Beach or in the established Design District, Pucci planted his flag in the city’s up-and-coming Wynwood arts enclave. “The creative energy is absolutely powerful,” Pucci says of the area, distinguished by its increasingly dy…

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