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Trust Fun

Try to parse the narrative layers that great wealth accrues around itself, and you’ll up dizzy fast.

Vacation Blues

As moralizing, *The White Lotus* is blithely hollow; as camp, it’s depressingly prurient.

A Humble Journeyman

The journey from social practice to blue-chip Westside gallery is an odd one.

Bowled Over

Truly, demolition is the great leveler.

Close to Reality

Every seat in Alice Tully Hall is both the best and the worst one

Corbusier, Loosened Up

Corb’s objects offered arch object lessons on how to live.

For the Humans

Do birds appreciate contemporary architecture?

Freeze Frame

At the Met’s Costume Center, “f” is for “fake” (and that’s no bad thing).

Metabolist Syndrome

Does Keanu Reeves have a thing for Metabolism?

Pretty Gross

The well of NYC-branded merch is running dry. Or so we hope.

Ra-Ra-Riot

The mass manufacturing of consent to remake US cities occurs not in an idealistic vein, but in a spirit of cultural anxiety.

Rewriting History

The writing is on the wall

Seeking Improvements

Some good and bad reasons to renovate

Social Listening

I am not a disciplined listener; I do not have an especially profound relation to music.

Unfulfillment Centers

Amazon’s New York takeover won’t be through offices but rather infrastructure.

Billionaire’s Row: An Anatomy

Breaking down the most reviled real estate on the planet.
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