How NYU Lost Its Art.

AE Gallatin and the Perils of Patrician Life.

NYU’s campus is built up around Washington Square Park, with its ruddy cubed library and the law school to the south, dorms on the west, and its cornerstone, the Main Block, on the east. The Main Block names a complex of buildings three buildings with interconnecting stairwells — the Silver Center, the Brown Building, and the Waverly Building. The super…