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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.

Smarm to Table

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

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.

My Sherita

She was a Brooklyn It girl before Brooklyn had It girls.

Rise and Resign

We are the product of New York City’s housing crisis and the perpetrators of the Hudson Valley’s.

Watch This Space

(For fundraisers, no doubt.)

Minor Fetish

Unidentifiable, unusable, and, alas, anerotic objects
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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