Lyle Rexer is an independent critic, curator and writer. He is the author of numerous books, catalogue essays, and articles on art, architecture, and photography. He contributes to many publications and writes a regular column for Photograph magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. His website is under construction. Photo credit: Daguerreotype by Jerry Spagnoli.

Progress and the Pilgrim - DAMN° Magazine

Progress and the Pilgrim

Ahmed Mater’s Mecca

True Grit - DAMN° Magazine

True Grit

Jorge Otero-Pailos’ tales of dirt

Capitalism On Show - DAMN° Magazine

Capitalism On Show

The Museum of Capitalism has no shortage of material, but without redressing the foundations of human value, it might just be wishful thinking.

An Eye for the Big Apple - DAMN° Magazine

An Eye for the Big Apple

John Chiara’s captivating vistas

GOD BLESS - DAMN° Magazine

GOD BLESS

The wickedly poignant art of Jim Shaw

The Name of the Game - DAMN° Magazine

The Name of the Game

Design and Violence at MoMA

In his head - DAMN° Magazine

In his head

How Ron Gilad entertains himself Ron Gilad has committed himself to the materialising of ideas, creating design pieces with a keen thoughtfulness, wit, and splendour. He is fascinated with deconstructing the function of [&hel ...

The Piers in New York City in 1976 - DAMN° Magazine

The Piers in New York City in 1976

a Super 8 film by Nelson Sullivan When artist Gordon Matta-Clark cut gaping holes in New York’s decrepit Pier 52 to let-in the light, it symbolised the end of the […]

All Too Real - DAMN° Magazine

All Too Real

The place of photorealism The fact that the work of Richard Estes is being shown in two notso- distant showcases of repute at once, intimates the contemporary allure of photorealism. […]

Pierless New York - DAMN° Magazine

Pierless New York

Why oh why? One by one, the glorious piers of New York have been dying a death. Over the course of some 40 years, most of the hundreds of piers […]

Rocking it - DAMN° Magazine

Rocking it

Ai Weiwei does Alcatraz “If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to us…. From […]

Meet Me in St. Louis - DAMN° Magazine

Meet Me in St. Louis

Bucky knew best Looking back can occasionally be the best way to imagine the future. The proposals proffered by the late Bucky Fuller, a keen visionary and somewhat of a […]

After the cheering stops - DAMN° Magazine

After the cheering stops

From all arenas So is it boohoo or teehee as regards football/basketball/baseball stadia being forcibly made defunct? It very much depends on which side of the fence one is sitting […]

California (Wet) Dreaming - DAMN° Magazine

California (Wet) Dreaming

Robert Heinecken’s maverick career Robert Heinecken was a pioneer in the post-war Los Angeles art scene during a time when the photo world resided in New York. Describing himself as […]

Into the Woods - DAMN° Magazine

Into the Woods

The architect who didn’t build Remembered for his proposals for San Francisco, Havana, and Sarajevo following the respective disasters that occurred there, which were subsequently included in the publication of […]