untitled (silver fish) 2008 I pass this and the many other rich, Chinese open-market landscapes of dried meat, fish and vegetables to be found on Chrystie Street virtually every time I'm in the ar...

curb cut Smart yellow line Smart I spotted these two Smarts on the same block of West 21st Street this past Tuesday. They were both parked on the north side of the street, the front end of each...

Mary Heilmann The First Vent 1972 acrylic with bronze powder on canvas 20" x 32" I found a lot of treasures in the "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" show when it made its stop at at PS1 last...

Roland Freisler presided over the show trials of another regime I've been buried among memoirs and histories of Nazi Germany lately so the news of today's verdict by an illegitimate, burlesque* co...

but I'm not looking for this kind of excitement I know there have been few postings here lately, but there's no particular reason other than the lethargy or discomfort of a warm and humid urban su...

another uniformed thug, saving our streets for cars Around 9:30 on Friday night, a bicyclist pedaling down Seventh Avenue veered to the left, trying to avoid hitting a police officer who was in t...

Are we going to be taken for another ride? This NYTimes headline and story is of a kind once available only inside The Onion, "America's finest news source", but my benighted countrymen have been...

artists and curators, barkers and rubes hanging out on 27th Street yesterday afternoon the purgatory section of Jacques Louis Ramon Vidal's sideshow/funhouse "The Gamble of Life", Color Wheel p...

It's Mulberry time, but it seems that today mostly only birds know about the delights available for the taking on these beautiful trees native to the Northeast. My first delicious Mulberry experi...

waiting for dinner The larger of these four heirloom tomatoes were just too weird to pass up at the Norwich Meadows Farm stand at the Union Square Greenmarket yesterday. At least half of them wil...