D Magazine titled “Why is Dallas architecture so bad?,”
Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster revisits the question. How has Dallas progressed in the intervening years, and how might it remake itself for the better? Is Dallas architecture
still so bad? We recommend reading Lamster’s answer first and then moving on to his list below of the best and worst architecture in Dallas today.
BEST: LETTER OF COMMENDATION
Fountain Place
“The architecture of a tall tower is 99% logic and 1% art but don’t you dare take away that 1%,” said Henry Cobb, architect of the prismatic masterpiece of the Dallas skyline. I’m not much for math, but I am quite sure he got his money’s worth out of that 1%. It is a complete work of art, right down to the verdant plaza at its base, designed by the revered modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley. A second tower has now risen adjacent to it (a sister was always in the cards) along with a garage, but those additions have don
The undoing of Jeffrey Toobin: How a leading man of legal journalism lost his sweetest gig
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The undoing of New Yorker journalist Jeffrey Toobin
12 minutes to read
How a leading man of legal journalism lost his sweetest gig.
Until Jeffrey Toobin s fateful appointment with Zoom on October 15, his quarantine was going better than most people s. In August, his eighth book, True Crimes and Misdemeanours: The Investigation of Donald Trump, about Robert Mueller s inquiry into election meddling, was published, getting positive reviews and a brief berth on the New York Times bestseller list. His third, about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is being filmed by Ryan Murphy for a limited series on FX.
And over on HBO, he was about to appear as himself on the whodunit The Undoing, delivering commentary on the murder trial that shapes the story s arc.
Children Love Snow Days. The Pandemic May End Them Forever.
In New York City and elsewhere, classes will be held online no matter how bad storms are this year in a shift that makes some parents wistful.
Children in Prospect Park in Brooklyn after schools were closed in March 2019 on what could have been one of New York City’s last traditional snow days. Credit.Stephen Speranza for The New York Times
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“Snow day.” These two words have charmed New York children for generations, conjuring thoughts of sledding down Central Park’s Pilgrim Hill or building snowmen at Forest Park in Queens; of strapping on ice skates and heating up hot chocolate.
Dawoud Bey on the Photography World, Past and Present
Ahead of his career retrospective, the photographer speaks about the origins of his practice and navigating art spaces including Aperture as a young artist.
Interviews - December 10, 2020
Dawoud Bey is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. The subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, scheduled for April 2021, and a new monograph to be published by MACK, Bey began his career in New York in the 1970s, making evocative portraits in Harlem and Brooklyn. In the context of the Aperture Forward winter campaign, Bey spoke with Chris Boot, who is approaching the end of a ten-year term as executive director of Aperture Foundation, about the changes in the world of photography over the decade since the rise of Instagram and the iPhone.
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