Robert Silvers was our greatest editor
Robert Silvers died this week but his New York Review of Books brought me years of pleasure
New York City Illustrated, 1910
A century on, a tourist souvenir reveals the architectural wonders of a city long lost
The Jeff Koons show at the Whitney is a failure
This exhibit will not change any minds about Koons so what was the point of mounting it?
At the Hermès party in New York
I capture how Hermès sees the world but last night New York was invited into the world of Hermès
Hilton Als on Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin
Hilton Als met Amiri Baraka only once: at the James Baldwin tribute I directed at Lincoln Center
A historic find on the Bowery
A friend may have found the 18th C Bull’s Head Tavern under a construction site on the Bowery
Shooting an elephant at MoMA
Douglas Gordon’s “Play Dead; Real Time” is terrific, even the way MoMA has installed it
Why James Turrell is perfect for the Guggenheim
Turrell turns Wright’s building — already a work of art — into a new and different work of art
HOW and NOSM mural on the Deitch wall
The Basque street artists brave the New York blackout to paint their wicked new mural
East Berlin, New York
The hurricane brought scarcity and darkness to downtown Manhattan while the north wallowed in light
On viewing the Tatzu Nishi Columbus Circle project
Tatzu Nishi inverts Surrealism and makes you see a public landmark as if for the first time
What I saw at the (Occupy May Day) revolution today
The point of today’s large rally: “Memo to the 1%, this is so not over”
Graffiti history written on your sneakers
A new store on Lafayette in New York brings back 1970s graffiti artists for custom work
Kony2012, the final indignity
What if you throw a party for one hundred million people and no one comes?
Retna graf going up on the Deitch wall
It’s slow work but the graffiti artist Retna is dancing on the sidewalk along Houston St
The New York Times opens up its photo morgue
The coolest thing? The backs of the prints. The most surprising? The site is on Tumblr
Unseen Robert Frank photos at the New York Times
Promoting the New York Times on the eve of Robert Frank’s landmark book, ‘The Americans’
Weegee: self-promotion is his business
An exhibit at the ICP shows Weegee’s New York was gritty in the most unreal possible way
What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!
Typography and world conquest
This exhibition shows the moment colonial expansion brought the Gutenberg revolution to the world
There’s a soixante-huitard feel to these Occupy protests
Will Zuccotti Park be the Blvd Saint-Michel of our era? These posters suggest a similar spirit
Gavin Russom plays Le Poisson Rouge
He designs and builds his own synthesizers and you can see what he’s up to this Wednesday
On the Carsten Höller exhibit at the New Museum
There’s too little to experience for an exhibit called ‘Experience’ but the slide is exhilarating
Where were you on September 11th?
Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment