Marilyn Manson takes on the role of fine artist, a Velazquez parades as basement junk, and Louis Vuitton purses and porn are reconfigured into fine art with varying results. This week in art news: Come as you’re not!
1. Ukranian Billionaire Selects Art-Prize Nominees
Victor Punchuk’s PinchukArtCentre announced the nominees for his Read More
A crossposting from the Observer’s manly mens’ blog, The Cockpit.
Chick-on-chick lit
Our Bodies, Our Shelves
Of all the book galleys that get tossed on our desks on Monday mornings—where the hell do they come from, anyway?— I was probably most stoked about “Same Sex and the City: So Your Prince Charming Is Read More
I’ve always been afraid of Bellevue. As a child, I pictured it as a crumbling castle full of shadows, secret passageways and catastrophes. Embarrassingly enough, even after living in New York for most of my life, I had no idea where the hell it was. Imagining someplace exotic, such as Staten Island or the Bronx, Read More
David Burke Knows How
To Play With His Food
When I was very young, I played a practical joke on a friend who was a food snob, always carrying on about the great meals he’d had in France’s three-star restaurants (where, of course, I had never been). I bought a bag of those oily, Read More
Given what has happened lately in Far East markets, only the most robust Wall Street executives are in the mood for Asian food these days, not to mention caviar. At Match Uptown, the latter comes in a martini glass, spooned onto clear, chilled consommé that looks like Jell-O. Instead of artificial strawberry or raspberry, however, Read More
