And They’re Off!
A crowded pack of candidates and crazies races toward City Hall
By Hunter Walker and Colin Campbell
EDITORIALS
Leadership on Guns; Disastrous Politics; A Win for Bad Guys
COLUMNS
Eats of Eaten: The Lovely Bones
By Joshua David Stein
Up and Down the Street: Tears for Sears
By Duff McDonald
Shindigger: One Klein Day
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
FEATURES
‘Post’ Modernism
Your great-great-grandparents’ favorite magazine is making a comeback
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Bad Men
TV’s most reprehensible antiheroes and the women who love them
By Drew Grant
The Fifth Girl
Meet Audrey Gelman: Lena Dunham’s muse, Terry Richardson’s girlfriend and Scott Stringer’s flack
By Jim Hanas
THE TRANSOM
Stormy Monday
By Anna Silman
The Belle of the Borough
By Anna Silman
Cotter’s Keys
By Ken Kurson
Parkour on the Dance Floor
By Jane Gayduk
POLITICKER
Why Did Carl Lewis Run?
By Darryl R. Isherwood
BETABEAT
Recriminations Follow Swartz Suicide
By Patrick Clark
Dear Seamless
By Nitasha Tiku
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Steve Roth’s Ravishing Roost
By Kim Velsey
Not Spinning Her Wheels Anymore
By Kim Velsey
Hollow Shell Selling for $19 M.
By Kim Velsey
OFF THE RECORD
Gawker Stalker
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and Hunter Walker
Heavy Lifting
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
ART & CULTURE
Wolfgang Pluck
Flower-crazed artist Laib brings pounds of Pollen to MoMA
By Dan Duray
Crazy Good
What makes a diva a diva?
By Zachary Woolfe
Three’s Company
These two girls—and their creepy companion—experience growing pains like none you’ve ever known
By Rex Reed
Trash Talk
The Department of Sanitation’s official artist in residence is a real survivor
By Michael H. Miller
Simply Confusing
Gold’s refreshingly honest revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic dishes out a delightful spread of Inge’s rustic realism
By Rex Reed
The Eight-Day Week
By Drew Grant
GALLERISTNY
A Slice of History
By Andrew Russeth
Go East, Young Art Dealer
By Andrew Russeth
Tony Clifton Lives!
By Michael H. Miller
ON VIEW
Francis Alÿs, ‘Reel-Unreel’ at David Zwirner
By Andrew Russeth
Nick Relph at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
By Andrew Russeth
‘Black Cake’ at Team
By Will Heinrich
‘Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual’ at White Columns
By Maika Pollack
Jacob Kassay, ‘Untitled (Disambuguation)’ at The Kitchen
By Will Heinrich
David Shrigley, ‘Signs’ at Anton Kern Gallery
By Will Heinrich
ON THE PAGE
Tenth of December, George Saunders
By Drew Grant
Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde, Rebecca Dana
By Rebecca Kurson
Jungleland, Christopher S. Stewart
By Sarah Douglas