Michelle Young

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Michelle Young

TELLURIDE, Colorado — “I’m the last of the Mohicans,” ruminates David Cassirer from the dining room of his modest frontier-style house in the mountains. David is the last surviving heir of the Nazi-looted Camille Pissarro painting “Rue Saint-Honoré, après midi, effet de Pluie” (1897), the subject of a serpentine legal case that has wound up and down the American court system for the last 25 years.

1 month ago | untappedcities.com | Michelle Young

Become a paid member to listen to this article Masstransiscope is one of those great serendipitous surprises that brightens up your commute; plus, it’s located in an abandoned subway station in Brooklyn. Installed by Arts for Transit in 1980, the piece by Bill Brand works like a giant zoetrope–a cartoon that comes to life through the movement of the subway.

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Michelle Young

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. “They’ve been had! The Monuments Men were had!” exclaims Emmanuelle Polack, the art historian in charge of World War II provenance inquiries at the Louvre, in Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief.

2 months ago | untappedcities.com | Michelle Young

Become a paid member to listen to this article In 1965, trial runs on a rooftop helipad atop the Pan Am Building (now MetLife) began using a Chinook helicopter. The helipad would prove a short-lived project, but it represented an aspirational vision of New York City. In many ways, the helipad brought to fruition a long-standing urbanist dream of a multi-modal, multi-level city first popularized by Moses King’s Kings Dream of New York in 1908.

2 months ago | untappedcities.com | Michelle Young

Become a paid member to listen to this article Zero Day is a limited series thriller on Netflix about the aftermath of a massive cyberattack that wipes out communications for a whole minute. Former U.S. President George Mullen (Robert de Niro) is brought in to run a Congressional committee to investigate the attack and identify the perpetrators. De Niro leads an all-star cast that includes Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, and Lizzy Caplan.