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At Rikers, reality exceeds language.

An ode to Liberty Inn, site of unseen, carnal pleasures

Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry

The American Dream keeps getting smaller and smaller.

Publishers Noted

New York Review of Architecture is a worker cooperative.

  • Perfect Days, directed by Wim Wenders, was given a limited North American release in February.

What should we expect from narratives about civic infrastructure?

  • Sleep No More is on at the McKittrick Hotel through May 27.

The cast changes; the choreography stays the same; what holds infinite interest is being there.

Beyond Digital has an epochal story to tell.

  • The Robert Olnick Pavilion at the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring New York, was designed by Alberto Campo Beaza and MQArchitecture. It opened last fall.

Conceptual art and contemporary architecture lack the beguiling allure I find in brazen displays of Americana.

26 Today

Lecture
Discussion
9:30 a.m. EDT
Apr 26, 2024
AIA New York | Center for Architecture
NY

27 Tomorrow

Tour
11:00 a.m. EDT
Apr 27, 2024
Historic Districts Council
NY
Exhibition Opening
6:00 p.m. PDT
Apr 27, 2024
SCI-Arc
LA

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Workshop
6:00 p.m. EDT
Apr 29, 2024
Museum of Modern Art
NY
Skyline!

Skyline Dispatches

Chinatown — “Rats—they are builders of the natural environment. They’re architects!”
Prospect Heights — Lecture topics ranged from Palestinian liberation to the ethics of AI; a Marxist theater troupe from Vermont performed twice.
Upper West Side — “Everyone who came to hold the sign and carry it with me through the neighborhoods became part of a collective monument.”
Midtown — In place of the transit nerds I had expected to find were aspiring comics and adherents of the funny pages.