The Art Students League will be shrouded but kept barely alive as a sop to its billionaire neighbors; though they may not engage with it, they will have the comfort of knowing there is art close by.

the new venue’s art will be made to work, to prove a “fit” with the cultural tastes of the supertallified city: an injunction writ large in the choice of that utilitarian name

a single file of passers-by, stooped and penumbral and annihilated by the vertical power of the supertalls

Film had been a consciously scopophilic medium since the days of keyhole spying in early cinema works

the inchoate lurchings of an American right-wing libertarian movement

the institutional bulwarks of democratic life

to minimize the context of war while it was still a recent memory was tendentious

Losing Ground was much more grounded in behavioral psychology and the idea that all people sought to maximize their pleasure at the least possible cost than in any jeremiad about cultural drift and mastery