But megalomania can be a useful counterbalance to our own equivocal and cautious age. Judd, whose work looks better as time goes by, remind...

robert irwin at pace (east 57th st, extended til 7/13/2012): a small show worth seeing. also the first retrospective i've seen feat...

the grass is indeed greener when there are no sides.

surf evolution , a retrospective of art brewer 's surf photography, is on show until the end of june at SVA (e 23rd st, between 3rd an...

a tablet and a laptop are two conceptually separate things which will probably have to evolve separately as long as keyboards are our primar...

from now on, posts related to food (like these ) and drink (like these ) will be on hydration is our highest priority . i'll start by ha...

from kay van vree  (found thanks to jenny white ).

is the atlantic mackerel  (also the boston mackerel). being low on the food chain and a habitué of cold waters, it is both rich in flavour a...

the unrecorded experience is the unremembered experience. and if a good beverage is drunk, the experience should be remembered. hence,  hy...

I'm not trying to make a photograph, I'm trying to capture the essence, the impression of something. Some subjects I come back to o...

sep kamvar , whose appointment to the media lab i found mystifying, has some important things to say and says them nicely .

The thing I like most about rediscovering Led Zeppelin — and listening to the Chemical Brothers and The Bends — is that they can no longer ...

this is saipancakes , and there is much, much more. [thx sabeel]

makeş ıt eaşy to wrıte amüsınğ emaıls, but where ıs the apoströphe?

Tenses are important: abstract : This ethnography of nine internationally renowned avant-garde culinary groups in the US and Europe shows...

or, rather, TeX . or, actually,  LaTeX . what does someone who doesn't write equations need latex for? the awful truth is: i switched to...

Artists need to be in there from the start, making the argument for quality. The key to this thing is, for example, if you give an engineer...

i'm reading, as i do every year, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees , which is both a biography of robert irwin and an...

my photographs have been influenced by those of ben sherrill .

garry kasparov, considering the slowdown in technological development *, writes that People have a sense that we should receive benefits f...

design is not about making things pretty, nor is it all about problem-solving (though some people think so). design is problem-finding fi...

a box of macarons from pierre hermé landed, unexpectedly, in my hands last night.* macarons are a bubble which has not yet popped. a few ye...

A prescription for a grand cuisine: Take a vigorous people, give them an empire, let them get accustomed to the spoils, and then take it al...

[thx tali]

and here we are, once more riding on the squeaky vinyl seats of the acela "express," mid-way between new york and boston. there...

robert kinmont, 1969.

i passed through san francisco this week on my way back east, causing two days of nearly continuous mild drizzle across much of the bay area...

after finishing late at stella! the night before, jake took one for the team and was in the line at 9am for the first seating at galatoi...