Max Gross

1 month ago | nypost.com | Max Gross

If you were going to sum up the post-war American Jewish experience, who would you pick as the age’s great exemplars? The choices would clearly be dizzying. In film there’s everyone from Woody Allen to Steven Spielberg to Stanley Kubrick. In literature, there’s Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud. In music, there was Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Irving Berlin — well, if we’re going to get into musical theater, we could be here a while . . .

1 month ago | housedigest.com | Max Gross

Wallpaper is a simple and effective way to bring personality and pops of color or pattern to any room. So picture this: you pick out the wallpaper you want, spend hours applying it, take a step back to admire your work, and... it's crooked. There's an easy way to avoid this; all it takes is a quick precautionary measure before you start applying: drawing a plumb line. The difference between a level line and a plumb line is their orientation.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Max Gross

Wallpaper is a simple and effective way to bring personality and pops of color or pattern to any room. So picture this: you pick out the wallpaper you want, spend hours applying it, take a step back to admire your work, and... it's crooked. There's an easy way to avoid this; all it takes is a quick precautionary measure before you start applying: drawing a plumb line. The difference between a level line and a plumb line is their orientation.

2 months ago | commercialobserver.com | Max Gross

For the last year or so, since they were named co-CEOs of Gensler, Elizabeth Brink and Jordan Goldstein have been on the run. Not in a bad way. From their respective homes in Los Angeles (Brink) and Washington, D.C. (Goldstein), they have been tending to the various outposts of a far-flung empire that is perhaps the single most important force in architecture and design.

Jan 4, 2025 | nypost.com | Max Gross

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, or Yiddish Scientific Institute) marks its 100th anniversary in 2025 and one would be forgiven for thinking that the birthday might be an elegy. However, this would be misguided.