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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.

Applying universal suffrage to economics.

  • 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 Baeza and MQArchitecture. It opened last fall.

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

Skyline!

Skyline Dispatches

Hamilton Heights — Maybe this is why the encampment I saw being built at City College felt so sturdy, less an act of defiance than an acknowledgement of its necessity.
Morningside Heights — “I wanted to take on something overtly political within architecture, and abortion clinics are one of the most contested spaces in this country.”
Lower East Side — “You can’t stop the inevitable.”
Morningside Heights — “Given the way the world looks right now, world-building isn’t the task that we want to set for ourselves.”