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Party’s Upstairs

Nixon joined us in the elevator.

Hearth and Home

The “home sweet home” pillow of the medieval bourgeoisie

The Bubbler

Care for a sip?

Stream the Revolution

What happens when a revolutionary communist artist makes content for Amazon Prime?

Home Stretch

The housing crisis won’t be solved through any one approach, least of all a photography triennial.

Seeing the Forest

Van Gogh’s Cypresses was as peak-Met as we’re likely to see in our lifetime

Game Theory

Can a profession that tends to take itself too seriously learn to play seriously?

Saltier than the Sea

Don’t get it twisted: this was no melting pot.

Writing for Dummies

This book is what happens when someone thinks the only reason they aren’t a professional writer is that they don’t have the time.

Joint Venture

In New York, you can connect anything with anything, so long as you have the right connections.

New Art City

People like a Yayoi Kusama because it looks like a Yayoi Kusama, i.e., polka dots.

Summertime Sadness

An ideal summer read need not actually take place in the summer, but The Guest does it well.

At Risk of Uncoupling

Our oldest putative ancestors look rather cast out, as if they were ready to quit the scene and hail a taxi home (wherever that is).

Cottagecore

What links Peter Zumthor’s spartan Swiss studio and the late Ted Kaczynski’s infamous Montana shed?

Crash Landing?

As the drone pans over the now empty, Borg-like interiors, commentators talk about the “soul” of the place.

Expansion Pack

It turns out that hill towns aren’t made all at once or by one person.
New York Review of Architecture
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