if he's not going to come by anymore, why not bring back FDR's pool, or put up a parking lot? Sure, I know it's not a race, but I did beat (scooped?) the Times again, although by only slightly les...

just how much could it have hurt? I know I'm one of the publishers, and so it may not be quite proper for me to sing the praises of the online arts magazine Barry and I introduced late last summer...

FDR talks to the press; the press talks to FDR I was only slightly confounded to realize I had no interest in watching the speech last night; didn't even think about recording it in case it turn...

Ezra Wube Amora 2009 [large detail of still from video installation] Barry and I visited the fall 2009 Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition galleries twice last weekend, and we both agreed it was...

Beuys's cane continuously raps on the surface of Ustvolskaya's percussion box, one corner of which rests on a copy of Castaneda's "Don Juan" the hugely-outsize Boli, constructed of sacrificial ma...

This sort of thing is why I don't despair of the art world. It's almost 6 o'clock, and that means the artist Man Bartlett is about to complete his "24h Best non-Buy, a Performance" inside the ais...

William Blake Hecate or the Three Fates 1795 "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." [Cassius, in "Julius Caesar", Act I, Scene II] The stars, t...

A few days ago, unable to entirely escape the sometimes forced jollity of the season while walking about the City, I found myself casually thinking about the number of color schemes that could be d...

I passed the stand set up on the corner of 7th Avenue and 23rd Street. It was late last evening, windy and bitterly cold. The two vendors were selling New Year's Eve party hats, light wands, and ...

The beauty created by a heavy snowfall is even more exceptional for its certain evanescence - although a camera can still try to keep it from vanishing. This afternoon, 24 hours or so after the sn...