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Familiar Faces

Everyone is recognizable, either because you know who they are or because you’ve seen these portraits before.

Going Once, Going Twice

No doubt it’s a finer fate than the place becoming an Apple Store.

Mini Me

BYO: concrete pad, plumbing, electricity, interior finishes, permits, land, labor, tears.

Over and Done With

The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.

Temple Run

Ancient Egypt, so strange yet familiar, is a projection screen for every age.

The Orange Gloaming

Ours is a world where everything but us gets to go up in flames.

Twilight of the Elites

“Succession” was a terrific show about the daddy issues of the “stealth luxury” set—but a just-OK show about the intersection of media and politics.

Well-Heeled

The exhibition evokes medieval reliquaries—elevating the urban castoff to the realm of the sacred.

Big Red Dogs

They are trying to be ugly and, more gravely still, to be viral.

Brand Loyalty

The clean white walls, gold text, and ambient jazz combined with the occasional flash of a red sprinkler pipe to facilitate an elegant perusing experience.

Full of Holes

It was a strange, tentacular artifact, but a welcome respite from all the noise, visual and otherwise.

I Saw the Sign

They grasp at their future until a tragedy snaps the present into place.

It Takes Two

The privileges Caro and Gottlieb enjoy go unexamined, and the sacrifices of everyone around them are mentioned only in passing.

Kapoor’s Catoptricks

Anish Kapoor’s decade-in-the-making squidge does not, as of yet, have a title. May I suggest “The Dud”?

Penn, Again

Penn Station’s condition has had little to do with its architecture, and much to do with how people who don’t live in big cities feel about big cities.

Poker Face

Amid an unending bombardment of shows focused on the plights of the ultrawealthy, Cale’s working-class protagonist is a refreshing experience.
New York Review of Architecture
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