Clay Felker, the prolific magazine editor and founder of New York Magazine, died today, July 1, 2008, at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even …
Eliasson talks about The New York City Waterfalls project, how the placement of the falls reflects NYC as a whole, and more about the construction and conceptualization of the project. …
Thirteen/WNET’s REEL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL kicks off the summer with independent films and videos by New Yorkers and about New York.
The New York City Department of Health announced an initiative to administer HIV tests to the estimated 250,000 untested 18- to 64-year-olds in The Bronx over the next three years.
This morning, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson opened the spigot on his public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.”
The walrus whose self-gratification rituals made him the New York Aquarium’s most famous resident passed away earlier this week.
What does a life-size paper doll of Barack Obama look like? You can see for yourself at the “Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election” exhibit that …
The talk in art circles may be about China these days, but the northern European scene isn’t doing too bad for itself either. Just this summer in New York, there’s “From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art” at Scandinavia House, “Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland” at P.S. 1, and of course, Denmark’s Olafur Eliasson is staging the huge New York City Waterfalls.
On June 26, the Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Starting with the Universe” opens. See clips and read more about this engineering visionary.
