"Orientalism... is a complex idea, made up of history and scenery, suffused with imagination... We frame to ourselves a deep azure sky,...

Recently I went up the the CooperHewitt to see the Rococo show . What I like about that museum is their usually adventurous curatorial take ...

I was surprised by the impassioned-- dare I say a wee bit hysterical-- tone of the Ourousoff piece in the Times earlier last week. It was ...

distracted. busy. can't wrap my head around a coherent post. soon. Image: a glimpse from a long ago 42nd street--the inside of this barb...

Thanks to Mr. Trigg at Side Effects I guess I'm "it." 1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book t...

I'm surprised I hadn't thought about this before: word aversion (also called " the moist panties phenomenon .") My friend...

Maybe I've become too attuned to 'New New Realism' in photography, fashion and otherwise? The flashlit anti-glamour of Juergen T...

February 8th marks the observance of Harikuyo , Japan's Festival of Broken Needles . A celebration thought to be several hundred years o...

I came across my copy of The City (originally published in 1925) by Frans Masereel. I've had it for years and just recently was moved t...

I recently finished This Republic of Suffering , the new book by Drew Gilpin Faust, about this country's relentless confrontations with ...

A "Talk of the Town" in this past week's New Yorker recounts how Art Garfunkel has kept an index of the 1023 or so books he ...

Somehow I felt like we'd been building toward a Henry Fuseli moment. The Owen Wilson wrist-slashing documentation (where are the scars?)...

Robert Warner 's ephemera collage art show at Pavel Zoubok gallery. A wonderful display of vintage what-not and obscure commercial flots...