Note waterfront Gehry-cluster.
She’s called Dusseldorf! And we’re lucky to have the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia as our sister city.
Soon, a newly-minted New York-Dusseldorf marketing partnership will mean ads on bus shelters and on the Staten Island Ferry. We’re doing some shit over there, too. It’ll be easy since all of the Read More
“If you had told me we would have had this many people for a friggin’ mortgage company opening–give me a break,” said Donald Trump, speaking to several hundred people crammed into a lower level space at Trump Tower.
It’s not typical that an 11 a.m. mortgage company launch could turn into Read More
So it’s not really on the beat, but I can’t help noting, with Belarus in the headlines for the first time in years, that its dictator had impeccable timing last time he rigged an election.
I was covering the Eastern European country, known as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” back in September 2001. The autocrat, Read More
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. America isn’t working out? There’s always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show ’em!
I see her as trendy, imitative. Try this, try that—dance is a smorgasbord, a salad bar, so stick a Read More
“Bergman said the worst thing would be to die on a sunny day,” said Woody Allen on Dec. 1, 2005.
It was his 70th birthday, and he was hanging over the back of a large-armed chair that he’d swiveled around, face in hand, simultaneously concerned father and pliant child. He says he doesn’t Read More
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. America isn’t working out? There’s always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show ’em!
I see her as trendy, imitative. Try this, try that—dance is a smorgasbord, a salad bar, so stick a little of Read More
In April 2004, gallery owner Barbara Gladstone signed a contract at Richard Meier’s latest residential project, 165 Charles Street, as reported a few months later by New York magazine. Well, the deal finally closed earlier this month for $4.75 million, according to deed transfer records. (Ms. Gladstone is in Europe and Read More
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City, by Anonymous. Metropolitan, 261 pages, $23.
It’s no surprise that the mass rape of German women by triumphant Red Army soldiers at the end of World War II doesn’t feature prominently in Moscow’s annual Victory Day parades. The Soviet Union overcame more obstacles than perhaps Read More
Until I Find You: A Novel, by John Irving. Random House, 824
pages, $27.95
Until I Find You, John Irving’s massive new novel, is of
a type that you often hear referred to as “sprawling”—which, when you think
about it, just means “extremely long and somewhat disorganized.”
Except,
in Read More
Until I Find You: A Novel, by John Irving. Random House, 824 pages, $27.95
Until I Find You, John Irving’s massive new novel, is of a type that you often hear referred to as “sprawling”-which, when you think about it, just means “extremely long and somewhat disorganized.”
Except, in this case, calling it “John Read More
