Books
Architectural Histories of New Yorks that Never Were
From a Dodger Stadium by Buckminster Fuller to an Ellis Island by Frank Lloyd Wright, a new book gathers hundreds of alternate realities proposed for New York City.
New York
Art
Quilting a Patchwork of Latin American and Caribbean Identity
There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
Books
Exploring New York City's Silent Shores
The 600 miles of New York City's shoreline that secured its status as a center of trade in the 18th century now host some of its more forgotten spaces.
Art
The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City
A manhole cover is generally deemed successful if its round shape keeps pedestrians from plummeting into the earth, and communicates the subterranean systems below through its design.
Art
A Guide to New York City's Historic Artist Studios
In New York City's constantly changing urban landscape, artist studios can be ephemeral.
News
Basquiat's Former Home and Studio Gets a Permanent Plaque
Yesterday, a permanent plaque was unveiled outside the former home and studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan.
Art
From a Helicopter, a Photographer Finds Novel Angles on NYC
There's a reason why thousands of tourists wait in hours-long lines to One World Trade Center’s observation deck or to peer out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown: seeing New York City from the sky is an indescribable sight.
Art
An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush
It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real e
Music
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bach but Were Afraid to Ask Marina Abramović
We are too distracted, too stressed out to listen to music properly. That’s the idea behind Goldberg, the music concert/installation/participatory performance art piece currently at the Park Avenue Armory.
Art
The Elusive Painter Who Predicted Minimalism in the Mid 1950s
John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
Art
Early-Morning Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century New York City
In the early-morning hours in turn-of-the-century New York City, a photographer who was afraid of the dark took his camera out into the light.
Books
The Decadent Dakota: New York's Luxury Apartment Pioneer
There's no shortage of myths and legends about the Dakota, that formidable, castle-like apartment building at West 72nd Street and Central Park West in Manhattan.