#42
- Contributors
- Sam Kriss, Thomas de Monchaux, Andrew Eckholm, Eric Schwartau, Rachel Hunter Himes, Zack Hatfield, Lyta Gold, Moze Halperin, Pete Segall, Peter Schmidt, Enrique Ramirez, A. V. Marraccini, Aaron Timms, Andrew Marzoni, Chloe Wyma, Ben Davis, Emily Sandstrom, Kat Kitay, Julian Tepper, Nicolas Kemper, Sophie Abramowitz, Clare Fentress, Ian Volner, Allison Hewitt Ward, Greta Rainbow, Douglas Spencer, Mark Foster Gage, Kate Wagner, Nick Murray, Sarah Chekfa, Zachary Torres, Peter Lucas, Danielle Jackson, Ekemini Ekpo, & Lily Puckett
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Managing Editor
- Chloe Wyma
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- Nicolas Kemper
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- Nicholas Raap
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C. Suchara
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- Molly Fairhurst, Antony Huchette, & Sean C. Suchara
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- Emma Schneider, Michael Piantini, & Sajina Shrestha
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- Don Armstrong
Articles
Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?
Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.
Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.
The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.
Once a sparkling fixture of New York high society, the Plaza Hotel has lost its fizz.
“Moving furniture around is a good form of procrastination when you are in a complete panic.”
Reviews
Mapping Malcolm, edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 304 pp., $28.
Mapping Malcolm takes Harlem as a starting place for a global project of Black liberation.
Jenny Holzer: Light Line, organized by Lauren Hinkson, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 29.
At the Guggenheim, Jenny Holzer presides over a crumbling Babel of mixed messages.
Spatializing Reproductive Justice was on view this summer at the Center for Architecture.
Political art so often feels like a wish; Spatializing Reproductive Justice represented something like a real plan.
Life and Trust, by Emursive, is currently running at 20 Exchange Place.
Life and Trust occupies Wall Street with craft cocktails and prebatched bromides.
Vivian Maier: Unseen Work is on view at Fotografiska through September 29.
Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.
Dream House is a light and sound installation created by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, located at 275 Church Street.
Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology is located at 21 Dey Street.
Dream House does a lot with a little. Mercer Labs does a little with a lot.
Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture by Peter H. Christensen. MIT Press, 400 pp., $50.
Prior Art trades in architectural alembics: spaces that distill, refine, and elucidate Christensen’s crucial triad: “creativity, novelty, and property.”
Manor Lords, developed by Greg Styczeń (a.k.a. Slavic Magic), was released by Hooded Horse in April.
If Sim City arguably inspired legions of thirtysomething urban planners, there’s a strong chance Manor Lords will make at least one good historian of the medieval peasantry.
