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Pilgrimage to the Meadowlands (Taylor’s Version)
Curbed - Zach Schiffman
FOLLOW THE SEQUINS!” a girl shouted as the horde of Taylor Swift fans at Penn Station searched for the right train. The assembled crowd — ranging from millennials to preschoolers to chaperone parents — surged toward the track in a heaving mass of glitter. Those not headed to the Meadowlands for the …
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18 hours ago
The Breuer: Requiem for a Museum
Curbed - Jerry Saltz
When you went to see a show at the old Whitney Museum of American Art, housed in the 1966 brutalist building by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue, it was clear what you were supposed to do there: look at art. There were hardly any windows on this slate-gray apparition on the Upper East Side, which …
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20 hours ago
Sotheby’s Was the Only Serious Option for the Breuer
Curbed - Christopher Bonanos
What do you do with a whole empty museum? After a few years of rumors and a couple of periods in which it continued to show other institutions’ art, the Whitney’s old home is going commercial: Sotheby’s has bought 965 Madison Avenue. Artnet reports that the auctioneers will spend a bit more than …
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23 hours ago
Eric Adams Sort of Relents on Remote Work
Curbed - Clio Chang
Eric Adams, who is anti-remote-work and pro-living-in-your-office, has relented on his return-to-office absolutism (sort of). A contract reached earlier this year for members of District Council 37, the city’s largest union of municipal workers, includes a hybrid work plan, and the mayor announced …
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1 day ago
No One Wants Joan Didion’s Apartment
Curbed - Kim Velsey
While Joan Didion’s sunglasses and assorted bric-a-brac sold for a premium at auction last fall ($27,000 for a pair of sunglasses), her apartment, an 11-room behemoth on the Upper East Side, has not produced quite the same feverish response. Put on the market in late January for $7.5 million, the …
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Amtrak’s New Acela Fleet Is Languishing in a Rail Yard
Curbed - Alissa Walker
Amtrak’s new, high-speed Acela fleet is one of the country’s largest-ever public-transportation investments, ringing up at $2 billion. But over the last three years, as each of the 28 new Acela train sets rolled off the Hornell, New York, assembly line, they have been languishing in a rail yard, …