Podcasts Arts Design Design and Architecture Catherine Opie's "The Modernist," Mike Kelleys Kandors

Catherine Opie's "The Modernist," Mike Kelleys Kandors

Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 10:30 p.m.

LA photographer Cathy Opie has made a short film about an arsonist who loves mid-century-modern LA houses so much, he\u2019s driven to destroy them. And the late LA artist Mike Kelley was obsessed with Kandor, Superman's hometown on the planet Krypton. Both artists address the utopian ideals of modernist architecture, and what happens when those ideals fail to materialize.