Articles
A visit to the Astor Place Wegman’s confirms we are, now and forever, among the Etruscans
(and also stuck in the ’90s).
As long as this great commuter-train parade ground remains open to the skies, the streets ringing it allow us to envision a different future.
Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980, organized by Ana Elena Mallet and Amanda Forment, is on view at the Museum of Modern Art through September 22.
A shockingly unfeeling and vague idea of home
The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence. University of Virginia Press, 280 pp., $50.
Is the myth of “pure originality” still a worthy target of criticism in 2024?
The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer by Alexandra Midal. Sternberg Press, 96 pp., $20.
In his fanaticism for capitalist optimization, H. H. Holmes was the equal or better of any industrial baron.
Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by A. Krista Sykes. Bloomsbury, 278 pp., $115.
His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit.
