By Stephen Jacob Smith 3/25 5:42pm

Architectural Mysteries

Courtesy of Eran Chen's Facebook page.

Long Island City Gets Boxy: ODA Rendering of Court Square Building Surfaces

Long Island City architecture, though respectable (The Observer appreciates the relative paucity of façade-ruining PTAC air conditioning grilles in new construction), is not exactly what you’d call edgy.

ODA Architecture would apparently like to change that. Far from the towers on the waterfront, it appears that the New York-based architectural practice is working on a project on Read More

By Andrew Russeth 12/18/12 6:15pm

Film

TK in Pasolini's 'The Canterbury Tales' (1972).

Breakfast With Biesenbach

A veteran New York art dealer recently complained to the Transom that the city’s art world has become much less fun over the past few years, citing as evidence the fact that no one drinks at business lunches anymore. We’d heard this complaint from other art types before. But could there finally be a change on the horizon? Read More