Arts + Culture

Jessica Helfand|Essays

What's The Story?

And what becomes of all those dead tweets, anyway — all those long-expired, evaporated updates?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Bronx Cheer

To say that I've been disappointed by coverage of the new Yankee Stadium by the design press would be an understatement, as noted in this "rant" column for ID magazine.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Look Both Ways: On the Streets of Philadelphia

Last week I found myself with a couple of hours to kill in Philadelphia and decided to spend them at the art museum.

Mark Lamster|Essays

UnMonumental

While it's true that the events of 9/11 have begotten a good number of ill-conceived memorials, the latest, set for unveiling today at the Yankees' spring training home in Tampa, might just be the least successful, artistically.

Steven Heller|Essays

Japanese Face Masks

In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, you may recall seeing scores of surgical face-mask-wearing passersby navigating their ways through the dense futuristic metropolis that is a cross between Tokyo and LA. It always struck me as odd — yet …

Franz Wright|Poetry

"Visiting the Library in a Strange City"

The words reappear, slowly developing on a vast unknown but precise number of pages  as I enter: the great building empty of visitors except for me, reading the minds of the dead —  moving with …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Access Denied

In putting together the images for Master of Shadows, my publisher placed a permissions request to use a painting from the collection of the Norton Simon Foundation, in Los Angeles, only to be denied.

Kenneth FitzGerald|Essays

I Believe in Design

The Chesapeake Van, March 2009, photo by Kenneth FitzGerald In each of the communities I’ve lived I’ve encountered one of these trucks. It’s always a white van, hand-inscribed by paint or permanent marker with a variety of …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Splendor on the Grass

What makes a great tennis match great? I started asking myself this question while I was putting together a review of A Terrible Splendor, a new book hooked on a 1937 Davis Cup.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

My Facebook, My Self

But as projections of ourselves, one’s Facebook identity, made visible through one’s photo albums, inhabits a public trajectory that goes way beyond who and what we are.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Best of NY: Yours Truly

What I've always known is now established fact, as certified by the weekly record of this great city.

Mark Lamster|Essays

After Peter Paul Rubens (Long After)

Perusing the Christie's website a few days ago, I noticed a print attributed to William Pether "after Peter Paul Rubens."