May 13, 2013 Issue
Cover Story
The Age of Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is the closest thing to a household art-world name since Warhol, and he’s about to be fêted with shows all over New York. But in the art world itself, he can’t get any respect. By Carl Swanson
On the Cover:
Jeff Koons. Photograph by Martin Schoeller
for New York Magazine.
Features
Whitewash
The rise of an ever-diversifying voting population has the Republicans scrambling to revise their party’s racial politics—present and past. By Frank Rich
Al Gore’s Golden Years
The man who was almost leader of the free world feels Obama has failed the planet on the issue that matters to Gore most: climate change. By Steve Fishman
Obama Might Actually Be the Environmental President
But has 44 really failed? Or could he succeed beyond anyone’s imagination? By Jonathan Chait
Intelligencer
The Emir’s University
The students of NYU Abu Dhabi might be the world’s most pampered undergraduates.
Welcome, Harry!
Our dossier on the royal rebel.
55 Minutes With Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner
Salad and girl talk with Noah Baumbach’s leading ladies.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Strategist
Best Bets
Brooklyn Grange’s Flower CSA, Best Made Co. opens, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
“When I pick up the boy I take care of from school, and I have my nose ring in, I sense the other nannies looking at me all snooty.”
New Societies
Avant-garde arts clubs, hard-partying secret collectives, and other conclaves that might just have you as a member.
The Underground Gourmet Review
Pasta and pizza that stand out from the crowd.
In Season
Chrysanthemum greens are best raw in salads, like this one from Yunnan Kitchen chef Travis Post.
The Sichuan Belt
With some of the city’s best regional Chinese food clustered in the Thirties, midtown has become one seriously hot neighborhood.
Culture
The Meh Gatsby
Why book critic Kathryn Schulz despises the novel.
The Movie Review
The colossal vitality of Baz Luhrmann’s illusion and why Edelstein sort of liked The Great Gatsby.
Nick Carraway in Therapy
Tobey Maguire on playing Gatsby's institutionalized narrator.
How Food (the Restaurant) Helped Create Soho
And why it’s the talk of the 2013 Frieze Art Fair.
Comedy’s Class of 2014
The 50 comedians you should and will know next year.
The Pop Review
The problem with Amanda Palmer’s tip jar.
The Architecture Review
Towers, stadiums, shopping centers: This is not what Flushing Meadows needs.
The TV Review
The Office’s late recovery.
To Do: May 8–15, 2013
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of May 13, 2013
Readers sound off on the spring 2013 design Issue, electronic cigarettes, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of May 13, 2013
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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