New York Review of Architecture

A perfect beach read. Dive in. NYRA?no. 41?is here! In this issue, Aaron Timms portends possible futures for Sunnyside Yard; Jake Romm reflects on the Gaza solidarity encampments; Jael Goldfine tries to keep focused. Charlie Dulik critiques flip-lanthropy, and Thomas de Monchaux visits Tuscany via Wegmans. Marianela D'Aprile gets claustrophobic at MoMA, Douglas Spencer begs to differ with Mark Foster Gage, Zain Khalid rejects millennial pessimism, and Izzy Kornblatt deconstructs the Architecture of Influence. Hannah Williams explores a murderer’s manse, Alana Pockros analyzes the algorithm, Christopher Hawthorne remembers Vincent Scully, Claudia Ross reassesses Catherine Opie, Samuel Medina chews on Stalinist confectionery, and Marco Roth flattens New York University’s megalithic new omniuse complex. Jonathan Rosen illustrated the essays and Wrecking Ball, Kristin Tata drew the table of contents, and Sean Suchara drew a homage to McCarren Park Pool for our cover. For our subscribers, your issue is printed and on the way. Not a subscriber? Fix that, and we will put a copy in the mail for you.

“The saucy shanks were reheated at the dawn of the Gay Nineties, encroaching in their intumescence, as one observer put it, ‘upon arrogant claims of the decollete.’”Chloe Wyma reviews ‘Statement Sleeves’ at the FIT museum in NYRA no. 42: https://lnkd.in/eW4uQWNB

Peter Lucas reports on the Center For Architecture panel “Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Taking Action” for NYRA no. 42:? https://lnkd.in/eZzvg76x

In his essay for NYRA no. 42, Sam R. Kriss illuminates the apocalyptic facets of the geodesic dome and the checkered legacy of its indefatigable evangelist, Buckminster Fuller.? https://lnkd.in/ecMuxtEz

“At the Guggenheim Museum, we find that Holzer is now something of an engagé recent-history painter, trading the arch, agathokakological imagination of her early work for reminders that Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Zack Hatfield on Jenny Holzer in NYRA no 42: https://lnkd.in/eNPaCvA7

“For its artists, Harlem’s famous crowdedness was a creative wellspring and a problem for thought.” Sophie Abramowitz reviews the Met museum’s “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” in NYRA no. 42: https://lnkd.in/ezfYKSP8

Danielle Jackson on Bode’s shambolic storefronts in NYRA no. 42.? https://lnkd.in/ehiUMmut

“The luxury dining industry is presented as a potential solvent for toxic masculinity and a path to self-betterment for the downtrodden.” Enjoy an amuse bouche from NYRA’s forthcoming issue: Ben Davis on “The Bear”: https://lnkd.in/eNnQKjPE

“She abandons the toxicity of ‘curation’ in favor of mess and chaos.” David Michon takes a TikTok tour of Julia Fox’s home in LARA no. 1. https://lnkd.in/ev3jjrqv

Sarah Chekfa (@sarahchekfa) attends “First Thought, Best Thought” at the National Academy of Design, with Barbara Pollack, Laura Raicovich, William Corwin, Saul Ostrow and Emann Odufu, in NYRA no. 41: https://lnkd.in/eN6gWudy