Articles

Around the world with Pritzker’s favorite paparazzo

And into New York’s underground

Why can’t New York let go of The Power Broker?

The green reification of New York City’s waterfront

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.

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks,” curated Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen, was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 2 to September 22, 2024.

O’Keeffe’s New Yorks did not exist in an artistic vacuum; they live within an entire tradition of experimental art about modern architecture.

Jonathan Lethem’s historical autofiction from below

  • Yes, Chef, curated by Zoe Lukov, and its affiliated restaurant concept, Black Caesar, are open at Water Street Projects through December 15.

Yes, Chef. Hail Caesar. Eat me. Incubate me.

It’s August 1965; Eileen Gray is eighty-seven and blind in one eye, and she’s spending a week on the French Riviera to design an extension for a house she’d built decades ago.

Conversation

“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.

Conversation

New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.

Address A Building

Maligned and condemned, the Port Authority Bus Terminal will be missed after it’s gone.

Once a sparkling fixture of New York high society, the Plaza Hotel has lost its fizz.

Address A Building

Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.

Address A Building

Big money and anodyne architecture are poised to take over South Ozone Park’s legendary Aqueduct Racetrack.

Catty Corner

Wherever man spews his seed, there are rats indeed.

Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.

Catty Corner

Evading the question of fare evasion

Catty Corner

Binging on mindfulness

Wrecking Ball

The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.

Wrecking Ball

The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.

Wrecking Ball

New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.

The Brooklyn Tower is less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous by-product of capitalism gone awry.