The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
A new biography details the secrets and scandals of the Mitfords, a notorious family of aristocrats—and of the one sister who broke away from the rest.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
When We All Get To Heaven
And now, a podcast.
https://slate.com/podcasts/when-we-…
Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations
Our pal Sam Lubell on Frank Gehry.
https://nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts…
A Battle with My Blood
It's a tough one.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-w…
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane
The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
All desires save one are fleeting, but that one lasts forever. That was the desire for wisdom.
https://nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opin…
American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’
By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.
https://nytimes.com/2025/11/10/book…
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day – “it’s a love story about a friendship”
With a career spanning more than three decades, Ira Sachs is one of the most acclaimed American independent filmmakers of his generation with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney.
https://thequeerreview.com/2025/11/…
Who My Child Was and Would Be
When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
Just delicious.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective
The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
https://newyorker.com/news/our-loca…
Where Housing Meets Humanity
By my pal Sam Lubell!
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
Our Housing Crisis Is a Monumental Failure of Design
America’s housing crisis is not a glitch in the system—it’s a feature.
https://commonedge.org/our-housing-…
What a 1970s Commune in Arizona Got Right About Desert Urbanism
Architect Paolo Soleri’s experimental city, Arcosanti, was planned for 5,000 people; 50 years later, it holds just a fraction of that figure. But it still has lessons for living in extreme heat.
https://bloomberg.com/news/features…
Would You Work for Trump?
Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice.
https://commonedge.org/would-you-wo…
Gordon Matta-Clark’s Roving Eye
Few know the artist as a photographer. But he was obsessive about capturing the early years of graffiti.
https://curbed.com/article/gordon-m…
Hymn to a Life
A biography of poet James Schuyler.
https://bookforum.com/print/3202/hy…
The Writer Who Turned Gossip Into Art
Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she’s the one with something to say.
https://nytimes.com/2025/10/13/t-ma…
A Miraculous Trove of Pre-Stonewall Secrets
In the 1960s, Casa Susanna empowered a community of self-identified cross-dressers at a time when gender nonconformity was a crime.
https://aperture.org/editorial/a-mi…
What Our Intergenerational Household Taught All of Us About Care
For Courtney E. Martin, her multi-generational household has been an advanced education in teamwork, patience, connection, and love.
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ar…
Postcard from the Edge
The most decisive year in LA’s modern history is around the corner. Will the city meet the moment?
https://nyra.nyc/articles/postcard-…
Ocean Vuong on smalltown queer life, Studio Ghibli’s influence, and why ‘even fiction is an artful lie’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Renowned writer Ocean Vuong has a rare talent: not only is he a celebrated poet but a bestselling author too.
https://attitude.co.uk/culture/ocea…
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time.
https://theguardian.com/books/2025/…
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
