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Amuse Couch

Everything was grossly comfortable, each piece suffering from bloat and distention.

Field of Dreams

Ersatz pastoralism at Freedom Plaza

Fowl Shot

Peristeronic ostranenie in New York’s art world

Inside Job

Power moves on; another cozy suite, a different letterhead.

Knock it Off

The RealReal’s fakes were no match for Canal’s bustling sidewalks.

Only the Good Die Young

A narrow trail through the lucrative past of a working man’s multi-millionaire

Rebel Without a Clause

Mayne, after installing himself at the top of the masthead, identifies himself there not as editor but “instigator.”

Impasto Syndrome

An atmosphere emerges of city life before its descent into the present monotony of glass façades and brushed steel.

Art Is Like a Wheel

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

Auto Body Horror

Do they remember that they were once human?

Cement-imental Education

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

Death Blow

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

Democracy on Ice

The post-Hamilton death throes of our dramatic institutions insist that the show must go on.

Dua Lingo

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

House Of Rufflepuff

Fantastic sleeves and where to find them.

Lift Every Voice

Harlem’s famous crowdedness was a creative wellspring and a problem for thought.
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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