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James Wegener|Essays

Metabolic Dark City

In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Smaller Wonder: Brooklyn Children's Museum

My first encounter with the expanded Brooklyn Children’s Museum made me ask several questions.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Big Stage

'll be giving a talk on Rubens and his diplomatic career at the Ringling Museum's extraordinary Asolo Theater.

Mark Dery|Essays

Dawn of the Dead Mall

Mark Dery surveys the landscape of failing malls and speculates about the future means and venues of mass consumption.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Review: The Price of Fitting In

My review of the new exhibit at the Center for Architecture, Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009.

Alexis Rockman|Gallery

Hot Times in the Old Town

East 82nd Street, 2007, painting from Alexis Rockman's American Icons series depicting future landscapes ravaged by climate change

Mark Lamster|Essays

From Bauhaus to My House

Nearly thirty years ago, Tom Wolfe made quite a splash with his reactionary little attack on modern architecture.

Felice C. Frankel|Slideshows

No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale

A slideshow of images from the book, No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale.

Steven Heller|Essays

Why Does John Baeder Paint Diners?

John Baeder's goal for the past three decades has been to record on canvas and paper just about every diner and roadside eatery.

Mark Lamster|Essays

A Renaissance Who Dunnit

Tomorrow the Metropolitan Museum will put on display a sculpture of a boy archer that made headlines about a decade ago when a New York art historian claimed it was the work of Michelangelo.