Justin Davidson
Classical Music and Architecture Critic at New York Magazine
Classical Music and Architecture Critic at Curbed
Author, Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York: https://t.co/YzskE6ViJ8 | Classical music and architecture critic, @NYMag and @Curbed
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6 days ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
The city we could have. (Scroll down to see the similar vibrancy of this intersection a century ago.) Years ago, one of the many storms that periodically flood Riverside Park cracked open a playground’s paving. The sinkhole has gone unrepaired since then, and it’s grown deep and wide enough that a bear might choose to hibernate in it, curling up beneath the trees that have taken root in the cavity.
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1 month ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
Annabelle Selldorf’s gentle intervention is a relief. The low-key new strcuture peers — but does not loom — over Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 mansion. The low-key new strcuture peers — but does not loom — over Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 mansion. In a word: phew. More than a decade after declaring its intention to undergo major reconstruction, and five years after treatment began, the Frick is back, intact and resplendent.
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1 month ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
Gluck+’s Washington Heights–Inwood Music Community Charter School. Being demoralized about the state of architecture is like sitting in a beanbag chair: It’s an easy position to slump into and a struggle to get out of. A decade ago, the architect Reinier de Graaf published an essay that seethed with dismay.
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1 month ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
64 University Place, KPF’s stacked and stepped arcade of shallow arches. It’s not all Richard Meier’s fault, but I blame him anyway. The now nonagenarian architect of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles transformed New York about 25 years ago, when he designed three glass-skinned apartment buildings that line up along West Street between Perry and Charles like TVs stacked in a big-box store, an assortment of hi-res lives flickering on every floor.
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1 month ago |
vulture.com | Justin Davidson
From the Met’s production of Moby-Dick. After 15 years of sailing from house to house, the Pequod has finally floated into the Met, its splintering wood, freezing iron, and sodden ropes transfigured into digital drawing. Moby-Dick, an opera by librettist Gene Scheer and composer Jake Heggie has been performed widely enough (in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington) since its 2010 premiere that it qualifies as a semi-classic, and Leonard Foglia’s production, too, arrives well-used.
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A lot of classical musicians pay lip service to community and underserved audiences. This dude (who was giving private performances for audiences of me when we were college roommates) really does it.
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