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Infested and loving it in New York City

Editors' Note

Mark Krotov and Thomas de Monchaux review Rudolph at the Met.

New York’s landmarks legislation is more invested in preserving a particular image of the city than the possibility of life within it.

Personifications of pure, uncut genius square up against philistinism and its legion of jowly middlemen.

To have Jane Jacobs, we need to go beyond Jane Jacobs.

An attack on New York’s city planning orthodoxy, in the guise of a guidebook

  • Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy was on view at The Shed from November 20, 2024, to March 16 in Hudson Yards.

Audiences expected the Drake-sired respawn of Luna Luna to be fun. In fact, it was a memorial to fun.

Sifting through the spoofable pedantry of An Anarchitectural Body of Work reveals Suzanne Harris, intrepid multipotentialite.

Sensitive to the subtle interplay of sound and space, Olga Touloumi’s self-consciously novel study of the United Nations offers an unintended material history of internationalism’s hollow performance.

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Washington Heights — In New York, track is back.
West Chelsea — What vision did these collectors have to select these objects from the Brimfieldian sprawl of America’s lost and found?
Upper East Side — “God knows what elegance is.”
MIDTOWN — I encountered no protestors making noise, only believers in their own land.