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Paul Goldberger and Mark Krotov ponder the enormity of Norman Foster’s JPMorgan Chase tower.

Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.

Two new museums, and the elephant in the room

An island of noncommodification in a stormy, speculative ocean.

Take this job at shrub it!

  • The Testament of Ann Lee, directed by Mona Fastvold, was released in December 2025.

  • A World in the Making: The Shakers is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia through August 9.

The Shakers are hot, hot, hot right now.

  • Weeds: A Germinating Theory by Kwan Queenie Li. Mack Books, 160 pp., $28.

What would these weeds say of the city if they could talk?

  • The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, a film by William H. Whyte, was originally released in 1980. This past January, it was screened at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village and Low Cinema in Ridgewood, Queens.

How is it that where others saw something approaching civil war, Whyte alighted on a market utopia?

  • What We Did Before Our Moth Days, written by Wallace Shawn and directed by André Gregory, is on at the Greenwich House Theater through May 24.

The fickle histrionics of lust and love are viewed from the vantage of their humbling little ends.

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