Arts + Culture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Fashion Plates

Do little girls still play with paper dolls?

Mark Lamster|Baseball

The Curious Architecture of Albert Spalding

The house that the Spaldings — of baseball fame — built for themselves was an oriental fantasy.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Speechless

Amongst my grandfather's things, we found a postcard of the Denver Art Musuem, designed by Gio Ponti in 1971.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Cooked

McDonald's McCafe Mocha is just one more reason that America is fat.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Summer As a Verb

The estate of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens is a lovely place to picnic while reviewing the artist's work.

Mark Lamster|Baseball

Ballparks Redux

Metropolis has posted a slideshow of the outtake photographs by Sean Hemmerle for my story on New York's ballparks.

Mark Lamster|Baseball

Play Ball: The Last Word on New York's New Ballparks

My comprehensive, last word on New York's ballparks can be found in Metropolis.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Advance Praise for Master of Shadows

The first notices for Master of Shadows are beginning to flow in, and I'm happy to report that the initial response has been very positive indeed.

Mark Lamster|Essays

A Plea for Crazy in Architecture

John Beckmann of the firm Axis Mundi is promoting an alternative to the Jean Nouvel tower that looks like a half-baked amalgam of several MVRDV projects.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Live Fast, Die Young

Dash Snow rests in a long line of dangerous, self-destructive artists who've captured the public imagination.

Chase Twichell|Poetry

"Negligent Worldicide"

Negligent Worldicide, a poem by Chase Twichell.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Handmade

I found Floyd Bennett Field, the decomissioned 1930s airfield on the border of Brooklyn and Jamaica Bay, to be a very strange place.