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DATE 11/30/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Kelli Anderson and Claire L. Evans launching 'Alphabet in Motion'

DATE 11/27/2025

Indigenous presence in 'Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True'

DATE 11/24/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Artful Crowd-Pleasers

DATE 11/22/2025

From 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' — the archives of Wes Anderson

DATE 11/20/2025

The testimonial art of Reverend Joyce McDonald

DATE 11/18/2025

A profound document of art, love and friendship in ‘Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay away from nothing’

DATE 11/17/2025

The Strand presents Kelli Anderson + Giorgia Lupi launching 'Alphabet in Motion'

DATE 11/15/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Stuff that Stocking

DATE 11/15/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 presents Cory Arcangel, Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway launching 'The Cory Arcangel Hack'

DATE 11/14/2025

Columbia GSAPP presents 'The Library is Open 23: Archigram Facsimile' with Beatriz Colomina Thomas Evans, Amelyn Ng, David Grahame Shane, Bernard Tschumi & Bart-Jan Polman

DATE 11/13/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: For the Photo Fanatic

DATE 11/13/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: For the Edition Collector

DATE 11/13/2025

Pop-up pleasure in Kelli Anderson's astonishing 'Alphabet in Motion'


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Frank Lloyd Wright
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/28/2016

Never Built New York on Science Friday!

Reproduced from Metropolis Books' Holiday Gift bestseller, Never Built New York, Frank Lloyd Wright's 1959 Key Project for Ellis Island proposed "casual, inspired living, minus the usual big-city clamour." The last commission Wright accepted before his death in April of the same year, it was a car-less development plan for the recently decommissioned Ellis Island featuring moving sidewalks and a circular podium superimposed on the Island's rectangular shape, upon which would rest apartments for 7,500 residents. Towers supported by suspension cables would have contained more apartments and a 500-room hotel. The domes were meant for theaters, hospitals, churches, schools, a library and a sports arena. An "agora" embedded in the landscape was earmarked for a planetarium, cinema, shops, banks, restaurants and nightclubs. A yacht basin would have accommodated 450 boats. Hear more about this project and others on NPR's Science Friday!

Never Built New York

Never Built New York

Metropolis Books
Hbk, 11.5 x 8.5 in. / 408 pgs / 220 color / 220 b&w.





From Mucha to Manga

DATE 3/31/2025

From Mucha to Manga

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DATE 3/27/2025

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