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  1. architecture
    Which Bridge on Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Packs the Biggest Punch?Like the former theater kid she is, Rodrigo knows the dramatic value of a third-act twist.
    By Justin Curto
  2. classical-music review
    Geffen Hall Has Found Its SoundIt’s finally what it ought to have been all along — and it’s so clear, it may be a little too revealing for some conductors.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. the longest lives
    What I’ve Learned So FarLessons from artists and thinkers.
    As told to Jackson McHenry, Helen Shaw, and Amelia Schonbek
  4. cityscape
    How Real Architecture Inspired Westworld’s Futuristic CitiesThe meaning behind season three’s deluxe urban dystopia, agleam with prosperity and gentrified to a high polish.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. art and architecture
    Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA ExperiencesSaltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
    By Justin Davidson and Jerry Saltz
  6. you need a permit for that
    Kanye West’s Star Wars–Themed Affordable-House Plan Hits a SnagWest has 45 days to file building permits or the domes are going the way of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
    By Bethy Squires
  7. urbanism
    Is Hudson Yards Really the City of Tomorrow?A debate between four starchitects.
    By Carl Swanson
  8. art
    The Best New Architecture Books To Gift For the HolidaysFrom McKim, Mead & White to Mark Foster Gage.
    By Andrés González
  9. architecture
    The MoMA’s Tribute to Yugoslavia’s ‘Concrete Utopia’ Is a RevelationThis hugely ambitious show portrays an idiosyncratic, multiethnic, and open postwar society that propelled itself into the industrial age with brio.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. The Case for the (Non-Harassing, Worth the Trouble) Creative GeniusWe don’t want more James Levines. But how about more Zaha Hadids?
    By Justin Davidson
  11. The Over-the-Top Plans for Redoing Geffen Hall Are History. Good.The $500 million–plus plan to squeeze a new building into the shell would have been a disaster.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. I Went to a Concert With a Basement Full of Dead People and Loved ItIn the crypt, architectural and musical pleasure converge.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. preservation
    The Art Historian Trying to Save Venice From Being Killed by Cruise ShipsA talk with the author of If Venice Dies.
    By David Marchese
  14. the industry
    John Cho Is Starring in a New Movie About Modern ArchitectureIt’s called Columbus.
    By Nate Jones
  15. in memoriam
    Zaha Hadid, Visionary Architect, Dead at 65An appreciation of a brilliant and divisive talent.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. For the Second Time, New York Loses the ZiegfeldAw, dammit.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. Thomas Heatherwick Will Redo David Geffen HallThe post–Avery Fisher era gets under way.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. Is Richard Estes an Architect Disguised As a Painter?His fantasy city.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. The New Whitney Building Is OpenThe architect mistakes virtue for personality.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. Why Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton Building Is a MasterpieceBut you have to see it to understand it.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. Architecture Review: The Buzzy New Cooper HewittThe Carnegie Mansion, cleaned and wired for a new century.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. review
    MoMA’s Schemes for Fixing Urban Problems Are Either Too Dainty or Too SweepingThe museum’s “Uneven Growth” exhibition feels shaky and simplistic, predicated on a vague and reductive view of global economics and an inflated belief in the power of architecture.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. bill de blasio’s new york
    The Rich Irony of Barry Diller’s Floating ParkThe media billionaire’s just-announced plan to build an artificial island in the Hudson is the type of deal this mayor pledged to reject.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art Looks RidiculousIt’s a bad mountain, not a bad spaceship.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. Buildings Aren’t Usually Funny. Filip Dujardin’s Are — and Here’s Why.A photographer who creates his own architectural follies.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. architecture
    In Praise of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Midwestern Design VirtuesHe was the rare architect who felt landscape in his bones and whose buildings improve on nature.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. architecture
    Davidson on Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum: A Graceful DisappointmentThere is something depressingly glib about Ban’s architectural party trick.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. architecture
    Why It’s So Hard to Keep Beaux-Arts Museums Looking BeautifulThe same problem keeps cropping up at the Frick.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. architecture
    Mackintosh’s Greatest Building: Gone?A proto-modern monument, up in smoke.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. Davidson: The Metropolitan Museum’s Renovation Plan Is Full of Red FlagsNot so fast, guys.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. art
    Davidson: MoMA Reveals Its Expansion PlansAnd the fate of the American Folk Art Museum.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. walk-through
    A First Look at the Queens Museum’s World of TomorrowArt critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson tour the museum after its $69 million renovation.
    By Justin Davidson and Jerry Saltz
  33. architecture
    Justin Davidson on MoMA’s Departing Barry BergdollThe museum will lose a quiet crusader.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. architecture
    Justin Davidson on the Twin Legacies of Le CorbusierWhy architects have never stopped paying tribute to him. ­
    By Justin Davidson
  35. Davidson: MoMA May Not Tear Down the American Folk Art Museum After AllPotentially good news for the museum’s defenders.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. architecture
    Davidson on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIf the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. architecture
    Davidson: Mayor Bloomberg Reveals the Best Concert Venue of 2018The Culture Shed will be an institution like no other: eclectic, adaptable, and untethered to an artistic program.
    By Justin Davidson
  38. architecture
    Justin Davidson on Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921–2013“At 90, she was still writing circles around the rest of us.”
    By Justin Davidson
  39. New York’s Koch-Fueled Binge: Saltz and Davidson on Distasteful DonationsIs David Koch’s money good enough for the Met?
    By Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson
  40. Ice Cube Opines on Architecture“Each freeway has its own personality.”
    By Amanda Dobbins
  41. short people
    Short People: Better Architects?Why are so many major architects either just below average in height like Frank Gehry and Louis Khan, or straight-up tiny like Julia Morgan and Daniel Libeskind?
    By Matthew Perpetua
  42. kudos
    Japanese Architect Duo Take Home the Pritzker PrizeAnd a $100,000 prize.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  43. tv
    Fan-Made Architectural Drawings of Classic Sitcom HousesSo nerdy, but so great.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  44. bathrooms
    See Wayne Coyne’s Awesome Bathroom“Customized seats in the bathing pods tub portion, sculpted around [Coyne] and wife while they sat.”
    By Lane Brown
  45. architecture
    Float On: Architectural Treasure Heads DownstreamIts creator once proudly described the house as “a bold little ugly banal box.”
    By Andrew Goldstein
  46. apropos of nothing
    New York Finally Gets a Zaha Hadid — Just Five Years After Cincinnati!It took a while, but we’ve almost caught up with Ohio’s third largest city!
  47. in the magazine
    Inside Pritzker Prize Winner Jean Nouvel’s Downtown Gem’New York’ Magazine’s profile of Nouvel’s gorgeous 40 Mercer reveals the work of architecture’s newest prizewinner.
  48. countdown
    P.S. 1 Young Architect Winners Would Like You to Eat Cabbage This SummerAnd they’ll grow it for you, in P.S. 1’s courtyard.
  49. beef
    Santiago Calatrava vs. the City of BilbaoA Spanish mayor rips a world-class starchitect a new one.
  50. daily intel
    Herbert Muschamp Dies at 59The longtime NYT architecture critic is remembered by Justin Davidson.