#50
- Contributors
- Jackson Arn, Michael Piantini, Tizziana Baldenebro, Kate Wagner, Aidan Mantho, Paul Goldberger, Mark Krotov, Randle Browning, Thomas de Monchaux, Eric Schwartau, Jonathan Tarleton, Oksana Mironova, Jennifer Kabat, Travis Diehl, Lora Kelley, Andy Battle, Ross Wolfe, Casey Mack, Moze Halperin, Ann Manov, & Nicolas Kemper
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Chloe Wyma
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Associate Publishers
- Nicholas Raap & Lari Rutschmann
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Cover Illustrator
- Madelon Vriesendorp
- Illustrators
- Sean C. Suchara, Deborah Szpilman, & Arabella Simpson
- Operations
- Michael Piantini
- Contributing Editors
- Marianela D’Aprile & Eric Schwartau
- Proofreader
- Don Armstrong
- Editorial Fellow
- Kim Hew-Low
- Coeditor
- Nick Murray
- Editorial Assistant
- Olivia Oldham
- Digital Coordinator
- Naman Agarwal
Articles
Paul Goldberger and Mark Krotov ponder the enormity of Norman Foster’s JPMorgan Chase tower.
There aren’t many newer buildings that can be described as tall, dark, and handsome.
The kindest thing that can be said about the worst building Norman Foster has ever designed is that it meets and exceeds its moment.
Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.
In a chronically stressful city, even a bump and a few filled holes can feel like real relief.
An island of noncommodification in a stormy, speculative ocean.
A new generation might just be discovering the printed newspaper.
Reviews
The Testament of Ann Lee, directed by Mona Fastvold, was released in December 2025.
A World in the Making: The Shakers is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia through August 9.
The Shakers are hot, hot, hot right now.
Weeds: A Germinating Theory by Kwan Queenie Li. Mack Books, 160 pp., $28.
What would these weeds say of the city if they could talk?
The Queen of Versailles, starring Kristin Chenoweth and featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, closed on December 21, 2025, after an abbreviated run on Broadway.
The Siegels’ self-made American dynasty falls so short of l’ancien régime that it’s almost touching.
Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV by Jack Balderrama Morley. Astra House, 224 pp., $28.
Shah has not always been truthful. But she is correct that fans of reality shows get a “g-string up their a** about” real estate.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, a film by William H. Whyte, was originally released in 1980. This past January, it was screened at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village and Low Cinema in Ridgewood, Queens.
How is it that where others saw something approaching civil war, Whyte alighted on a market utopia?
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley. Allen Lane, 608 pp., $40.
Hatherley has remarked in passing that modernism was largely an “importation,” brought to Britain by exiles from Germany and surrounding states after 1933. Here, that thesis is systematically expounded.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, organized by Evangelos Kotsioris and Paula Vilaplana de Miguel with Joëlle Martin, is open on the ground floor of the Museum of Modern Art through July 12.
More than anything else, Kurokawa was a consummate pitchman, armed with one Big Idea: the capsule.
What We Did Before Our Moth Days, written by Wallace Shawn and directed by André Gregory, is on at the Greenwich House Theater through May 24.
The fickle histrionics of lust and love are viewed from the vantage of their humbling little ends.
