Ray Johnson’s Elusive Dream: ‘I Want to Dance’
The discovery of a group of early collages tells a new story about Johnson’s ties to dance and the dance world.
Apocalypse-Proof
A windowless telecommunications hub, 33 Thomas Street in New York City embodies an architecture of surveillance and paranoia. That has made it an ideal set for conspiracy thrillers.
House Narratives: One Edgecroft
Growing up, I saw only a few houses that really impacted me. Some were in magazines. Some were real. One small house–One Edgecroft Road–was both. The kitchen and deck renovation
John Waters is ready for his Hollywood closeup
The director reflects on getting a star on the Walk of Fame and a museum retrospective about his career as a cinematic provocateur.
To light, and then return— Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann
This fall, artists and friends Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann will exhibit new works together in New York.
A Novel That Links Climate Change and the Death of Salvador Allende
In Ariel Dorfman’s “The Suicide Museum,” a billionaire with a scheme to save the planet needs to know exactly what happened in the 1973 Chilean coup.
What does midcentury modern even mean these says?
Auction houses, secondhand furniture stores, and realtors make small fortunes from a nomenclature that, despite the fuzziness surrounding its indeterminate span and whether everything made during its indefinite duration ought
Can Helsinki’s modern architecture grow old gracefully?
The Helsinki skyline is startlingly low for a capital city, its further horizons determined by water and scattered wooded islands.