Megalo-MoMA

Now, to go with the airport-terminal style of the Taniguchi building, we have a combination of corporate bank branch and provincial convention center.

December 5, 2019 issue

What Happened to the West Village?

The neighborhood became the epicenter of what the remorseless rise of rents will do to a once mixed and diverse city, rich foremost in its peoples and cultures.

October 9, 2019

Up with Downtown

Mike Wallace’s vision for New York is as a city on a hill for the twenty-first century—a city committed to social justice, sustainable growth, and general welfare.

December 19, 2002 issue

Times Square Reborn

A quietly brilliant reconfiguration of Times Square shows how much can be achieved in city planning without gigantic financial outlays and dire social displacements.

June 7, 2017

Trade Exceptions

In Brittney Griner, the Putin administration may have found the perfect hostage to leverage into a high-profile prisoner swap.

August 14, 2022

I Killed a Man Back There

If, as Hamlet claims, every play holds a “mirror up to nature,” what kind of mirror is Robert Icke’s production?

August 10, 2022

Made Alone and Imperatively

The British painter Maeve Gilmore found her muse in family and the home—but that refuge was not an idyll.

August 5, 2022

“Live in Fragments No Longer”

“Surveillance makes worker coordination and solidarity harder, and big data makes capital coordination easier, so the need for both pro-labor and antitrust laws is greater than ever before.”

August 13, 2022

Messages to the Medium

“I tend to be obsessed with questions of mediated relations—what I call distanced intimacy.”

July 30, 2022

Empire Records

“The most popular histories are usually of leaders and wars—‘chaps and maps.’ After the fortieth Churchill biography, that can get tedious.”

July 23, 2022