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Lairs are kingdoms for one, perfectly designed to each villain’s dystopian vision. Or utopian, depending on how you slice it.

Wrecking Ball

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

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

“Moving furniture around is a good form of procrastination when you are in a complete panic.”

Keeping up appearances in brownstone Brooklyn

Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.

Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.

Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?

The movement kept me engaged; the engagement softened into empathy.

The civic mainstays of childhood appeared in the form of friendly, cement-and-aggregate monsters.

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The cocaine may have provided some pep for the completion of Grant’s memoirs, finished only three days before his passing.

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Petrit Halilaj turned doodles he found on elementary school desks in the former Yugoslavia into large-scale sculptures.

Fantastic sleeves and where to find them.

Harlem’s famous crowdedness was a creative wellspring and a problem for thought.

Prior Art trades in architectural alembics: spaces that distill, refine, and elucidate Christensen’s crucial triad: “creativity, novelty, and property.”

Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.