The City as Modern Muse
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On a mid-morning in early August, Richard Florida -- theoretician du jour about what makes cities succeed -- wouldn't stop staring at the rows of bungalows speeding past his car window in the city's Brookland area.
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A curator of crowdsourced art talks about new media projects and how crowds produce and present art.
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One afternoon in August, about 100 passengers were sitting on a sightseeing boat, cruising down the Chicago River to look at some of the city&#39;s most vaunted architectural gems.
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A small city of churches, festivals and big-time patent cases.
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At Performa 07, New York Cityâs performance art biennial, most of the events fall somewhere in between dance and theater, in the vast, anarchic ocean of blarney and bliss that is contemporary art.
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Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul.
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Insomnia is sometimes described unscientifically as epidemic, and it even seems chic these days. The author visited the worst city for a night's rest, and the best.
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In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs.
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Pete Hamill, a New Yorker's New Yorker, offers a sharply observed and heartfelt tour of the city.
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A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.
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Big cities are turning to new technologies and theories to try to relieve an old problem: traffic congestion
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Foreign collectors want them. Newly minted local millionaires want them. The rise and rise of the country's modern artists
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From bohemian fine dining to gussied-up comfort food, this is where the city chows down.
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This fascinating but not perfectly satisfying show at the Metropolitan Museum features the art of Barcelona from the turn of the 20th century.
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The City of Light wants to be the city that bikes.
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Three years after 9/11, Manhattan looks shiny and clean. But what has become of its icons: its money, its people and, of course, Rudy? An update on a mending metropolis
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The Modern's galleries are an eloquent reaffirmation of the enduring beauty of the museum's historic, albeit tendentious, account of modernism.