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What the iconic car chase revealed about Southern California’s landscape.

On April 10, 2024, the New York Landmarks Conservancy bestowed the Preservation Leadership Award to author and urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz. A longtime preservation activist, Gratz served on the ...

Urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz’s remarks on receiving the Preservation Leadership Award.

In the photography world, some of the great creators—Walker Evans, for instance, and Henry Cartier-Bresson—are known for perfect composition. What appears in the picture is exactly what belongs in it; ...

For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single image was always unique. For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative ...

It goes back to the ’70s. I’m in a graduate seminar, and we’ve read this obscure pamphlet from the Renaissance, Pierce Penniless by Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare. The professor, just to ...

A lively talk with the author about his new book, Winging It.

A lively talk with the author about his new book, Winging It.