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By Foster Kamer 5/14 3:17pm

Marc Jacobs vs. The Street Artist, Round 3: The Mannequins Get Involved

On the night of the Met Ball, the Marc Jacobs boutique in SoHo was vandalized by a French street artist named Kidult, just like Supreme, Louis Vuitton, and Hermes had done to them. The next morning, Marc Jacobs made light of it by turning it into a canny social media (and thus: marketing) joke. After that, Marc Jacobs and Company decided to turn it into a $689 T-Shirt, and moreover, turn an indictment of capitalism into an indictment of street art.

Needless to say, Kidult is pissed. Read More

2/23/11 12:55am

Art

Barking at Big Money: Tom Otterness Now Takes Shots at Capitalism, Not Dogs

The press release for “The Times Square Show” promised “THE BIGGEST MACHINE ON EARTH,” “ART POLITICS PERFORMANCE + FILM,” “Exotic Events!” and “More Than You Bargained For.” It was June 1980, and the art collective CoLab—about 50 artists, among them Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Charles and John Ahearn—had taken over a derelict four-story building at Read More

By Mike Taylor 12/20/10 6:26pm

Studies

Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard to Kill

This is from a New York Times article on Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist who has applied his theorizing to further our understanding of how cities work. Although the entire article is compelling, in the final section Mr. West offers a theory about the life span of the corporation:

But it turns out that Read More

By Mike Taylor 9/20/10 9:06pm

Billionaire Charity Skeptic Praises Bank Bailout

In a rant of ever-increasing craziness, Charlie Munger, the 86-year-old Berkshire Hathaway billionaire who squirms at the thought of charitable giving, says everyday Joes should be grateful for the 2008 government bank bailouts.

Bloomberg reports that Munger, speaking at the University of Michigan last week, said that people who’re suffering in the current Read More

By Steve Cohen 6/12/09 5:31pm

Green Business and Sustainability Management Have Finally Arrived

The $800 billion federal stimulus package is only slowly starting to kick in, and we see the President pushing to accelerate job creation over the summer. The good news is that a recent study of green jobs by the Pew Charitable Trusts indicates that the Administration’s focus on sustainability is sound economics- and the government Read More

By Tom Acitelli 3/18/08 5:14pm

Robert Toll Channels Adam Smith, Gordon Gekko

Tomorrow’s Observer will have an extensive interview with luxury home mogul Robert Toll, whose eponymous firm is building in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Here’s Mr. Toll on the housing crisis: The reason capitalism works is that one of the basic instincts of human nature is greed; everybody wants to get bigger, better, more, you know? Read More

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Marc Jacobs vs. The Street Artist, Round 3: The Mannequins Get Involved

Barking at Big Money: Tom Otterness Now Takes Shots at Capitalism, Not Dogs

Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard to Kill

Billionaire Charity Skeptic Praises Bank Bailout

Green Business and Sustainability Management Have Finally Arrived

Robert Toll Channels Adam Smith, Gordon Gekko

Across the Wire

Bill Clinton, Media Critic

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So Now We're Blaming JPMorgan's $2.3 Billion Trading Loss on Biology

Rachel Lee Hovnanian Serves Up 'Mud Pie' at Leila Heller Gallery

Mayoral Candidate/Media Person Tom Allon Doesn't Want to be Boris Johnson Or Berlusconi On His Birthday