Lawrence Li
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Lawrence Li
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"Ultimately, the building belongs to Harlem...the palette is restrained, the symbolism layered, the aesthetic severe, brawny, unapologetic. Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum on Madison Avenue may come to mind

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Harlem’s Remarkable New Studio Museum Redefines 125th Street
After seven years and $160 million, the museum has an uplifting home on a street that has always been a barometer of Harlem’s fortunes and aspirations.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"thoughtful and deeply respectful, with a stress on materiality and crisp detail

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
Once Hated, Now Loved, a Brutalist Behemoth Gets a Makeover
For $100 million, Sotheby’s bought a masterpiece by Marcel Breuer, the former home of the Whitney Museum. It has a thoughtful new interior.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Within the station, the structure's large triangular truss structure is left exposed, with curved, glass entrances to platforms, shops and other facilities framed by its structural curves

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Santiago Calatrava arranges Belgian station around "monumental bridge"
Swathes of glass and steel make up the sinuous exterior of the new Gare de Mons station in Belgium by Swiss-Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Despite the building’s extravagantly ornamented Beaux-Arts exterior, the model unit has something of a downtown loft vibe

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The Flatiron Building Enters Its Condo Era
The famously triangular tower gets a new lease on life, but don’t expect cookie-cutter layouts.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Bronze is timeless in its qualities, in its endurance

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Foster + Partners completes New York skyscraper for JPMorganChase
Foster + Partners has completed a stepped supertall skyscraper in Manhattan for American financial company JPMorganChase, emphasising its unique base.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"To place the contemporary art and artists of the African Diaspora at the center of the global cultural conversation

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
Museum of the African Diaspora Forges Ahead
Even as race-conscious cultural programming is under attack, this San Francisco museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an ambitious show exploring Blackness and the cosmos.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"diminished American dream

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October 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"looks for inspiration to the wave of Brutalist buildings that emerged in the 1950s

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Scandal and bloody-mindedness
A review of the new Princeton University Art Museum, by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson
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October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Call it SportsCenter for the terminally online M.B.A. grad

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What if SportsCenter and LinkedIn Merged?
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“High femme insight and determination on all matters gives my art that special oomph that draws people in from all walks of life

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Vaginal Davis Is Queercore's Fairy Godmother
For the gender-bending artist, size matters — just not in the way you think, suggests a new survey at MoMA PS1.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"aesthetic form to the enduring repercussions of violence and dispossession

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Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Giving aesthetic form to histories of war, displacement, resistance, and resilience.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“If you don’t live in Los Angeles, you might think that there’s no community and that everything is fractured...in fact, there are so many points of connection, especially in the arts community

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Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. has no title or theme. But the art is interconnected
Here's a look at some of the 28 artists participating in Made in L.A. at UCLA's Hammer Museum, whose work is rooted in and inspired by this sprawling metropolis.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM