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Art Is Like a Wheel

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

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.

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.

Smarm to Table

The Bear’s progression from cheap-and-cheerful Italian beef to wagyu cheeks could use more than a drizzle of acid.

Auto Body Horror

Do they remember that they were once human?

Democracy on Ice

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

Tower of Power

A building condemned to never forget

Mediocre Mr. Ripley

Upmarket is the extent of his desire.

New York Review of Coffee

2 beans out of 5.

Video Killed

One cassette is one whole world.

Where’s the Grease?

A latter-day luncheonette that looks askance at luncheon meat

Ahab-stractions

Increasingly détraqué geometries

Meet Me in the Powder Room

While the man in the C-suite drinks himself into a stupor, elsewhere a woman is up to no good.
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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