Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Reviews

Majority Report

Review of Design with the Other 90%: Cities

Mark Lamster|Essays

Johnson and the Void

On the architectural vocubulary of Philip Johnson

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Whitney Museum’s Other New Building

Lot-ek puts a pop-up studio in the Whitney moat.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Unconventional Imagery

The GOP goes Soviet

Mark Lamster|Essays

Joy, Illustrated

A new gallery for experimental art and design opens on the fringes of Chinatown.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Rubens for the Holidays

Snow is falling hard on the Eastern Seaboard. It's cold out there. A good weekend to stay in before a fire with your warm drink of choice and a good book.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Good Night Old Friend: ID Magazine Closes After 55 Years

After 55 years, ID Magazine, the grand dame of American design publishing, has shuttered. It's a terrible blow to the design world, and especially to those of us in the extended ID family — I was a contributing editor, and wrote for …

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Talking Rubens with Leonard Lopate

I'll be appearing on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show this afternoon.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The City in Pictures

Every great city is unique. Each has its own special character, a certain cosmopolitan energy that is its own, the product of its people, its history, its culture, its physical form.

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Master of Shadows: A Telegraph Book of the Year

The distinguished British historian Michael Burleigh has named Master of Shadows a Book of the Year in the Telegraph.

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"Compelling" & "Important": The L.A. Times Praises Master of Shadows

Good book reviews are rarities to be prized in these days of shuttered newspapers and diminished book coverage. By good I don't simply mean positive.

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Dankuwel Antwerpen!

This is a good week to be thankful and I am especially grateful to everyone who made the launch of De meester van de schaduw in Antwerp such a success.