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Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.
Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?
A visit to the Astor Place Wegmans 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.
Asset managers and AI are here for the design media’s copper wire.
In New York City, real estate plays double duty, and apartments turn into art galleries.
There’s plenty still unknown about the Lucas Museum, but one thing’s for sure: It’ll look good on the screen.
The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.
Is a plan to restore the Sepulveda Basin the equitable climate action LA needs?
Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture by Peter H. Christensen. MIT Press, 400 pp., $50.
Prior Art trades in architectural alembics: spaces that distill, refine, and elucidate Christensen’s crucial triad: “creativity, novelty, and property.”
Vivian Maier: Unseen Work is on view at Fotografiska through September 29.
Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.
Spatializing Reproductive Justice was on view this summer at the Center for Architecture.
Political art so often feels like a wish; Spatializing Reproductive Justice represented something like a real plan.
Dream House is a light and sound installation created by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, located at 275 Church Street.
Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology is located at 21 Dey Street.
Dream House does a lot with a little. Mercer Labs does a little with a lot.
Mapping Malcolm, edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 304 pp., $28.
Mapping Malcolm takes Harlem as a starting place for a global project of Black liberation.
Life and Trust, by Emursive, is currently running at 20 Exchange Place.
Life and Trust occupies Wall Street with craft cocktails and prebatched bromides.
“What would happen if we foregrounded human values in the creation of our systems?”
A crucial part of the Israeli state project is about leaving Palestinians with no physical place to call home.
Think about the climate crisis long enough, and the problem appears so vast as to be unthinkable. And yet, that’s what we must do.
New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.
Where ideas hit money and materials and space itself.
If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?
Once a sparkling fixture of New York high society, the Plaza Hotel has lost its fizz.
Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.
Big money and anodyne architecture are poised to take over South Ozone Park’s legendary Aqueduct Racetrack.
The Star Wars–esque modular bathrooms have been kissed by a gentle coat of rust, from their corrugated metal facades to their tinny hand dryers.
There comes a loud, thudding crash.
If there’s a correct path through American Museum of Natural History, it’s totally elusive.
Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.
With his lease as his leash, caged in this giant city-cum-dog park, our columnist roams the streets as a stray, guided by unseemly scents.
A self-described Renaissance man wrestles with the legacy of his former Bushwick abode.
We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.
The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.
New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.
Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry
306 West 142nd Street—a condo building two blocks from St. Nicholas Park—is no longer a part of my personal stomping grounds. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have beef.
Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?
