“Money Never Sleeps”
Elizabeth Schambelan
In Elizabeth Schambelan’s essay on hypergentrification, our real estate developer-in-chief is situated in the context of a wider tragicomedy of corruption and collusion, as New York City replaces its residents with one shining, unsold luxury tower after another and the Trump administration’s “Opportunity Zone” program fuses predatory development with disaster capitalism.
Elizabeth Schambelan is a writer and executive editor of Artforum. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and has written for publications including Art in America, Artforum, Bookforum, Film Comment, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and n+1. She is the recipient of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the 2019 n+1 Writer’s Fellowship. She is working on a book about fratriarchal masculinity to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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“Money Never Sleeps”
Elizabeth Schambelan
In Elizabeth Schambelan’s essay on hypergentrification, our real estate developer-in-chief is situated in the context of a wider tragicomedy of corruption and collusion, as New York City replaces its residents with one shining, unsold luxury tower after another and the Trump administration’s “Opportunity Zone” program fuses predatory development with disaster capitalism.
Elizabeth Schambelan is a writer and executive editor of Artforum. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and has written for publications including Art in America, Artforum, Bookforum, Film Comment, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and n+1. She is the recipient of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the 2019 n+1 Writer’s Fellowship. She is working on a book about fratriarchal masculinity to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Image in menu courtesy of Skyglow Project.