Articles
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.
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley. Repeater, 218 pp., $17.
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.
An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists’ Community in the 1970s by Friederike Schäfer. De Gruyter, 400 pp. $76.
Sifting through the spoofable pedantry of An Anarchitectural Body of Work reveals Suzanne Harris, intrepid multipotentialite.
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior by Olga Touloumi. University of Minnesota Press, 312 pp., $35.
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.
