Arts + Culture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Extinction of the Unisex

Now I have a toddler of my own, I'm wishing that children's clothes were more simple, without all the trimming.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On The Moment: Plastic Fantastic

“Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics,” an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum, showcases 300 objects from the 1910s to the early 21st century.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In AN 02: As the Tide Turns

In MoMA’s Rising Currents exhibition, certain tropes of contemporary waterfront design immediately surfaced.

Ernest Beck|Report

The Cotton Club

Report on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

All Rubble Is Not Alike

I watched Manufactured Landscapes in the weeks before Christmas and it was just too depressing to post about in the run-up to gift day.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Wives of the Architects

The beginning of a short story I have been writing in my head for years.

Andy Chen|Essays

Left Me Speechless

Our work should not merely address the political injustices wrought by discriminatory laws: it should register the sense of loss inflicted on those who suffer them.

Mark Lamster|Essays

(Not) Basic Training

The J-E-T-S are out of the playoffs following a valiant effort yesterday afternoon. That's not a shocker, though their appearance in the AFC Championship Game certainly was surprising.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hands-On: The Gropius Touch

I couldn’t believe no one else had noticed that Ati Gropius Johansen was coming to the MoMA, and it seemed like a piece of history.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Love and Flatware

A scene from Sleepless In Seattle makes me wonder about the idea that shared taste = true love.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Snip Snip Snip

The Museum of Arts & Design’s Slash: Paper Under the Knife, is the must-see of the winter season.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Big City, Big Game

As a kid, I was never one for the dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. I preferred the darkened precincts of the Hayden Planetarium, specifically the giant mechanical spider that was its Zeiss Mark VI projector, a truly …