We read the New Yorker‘s 10,000-word Bloomberg piece over lunch (as Slate says, so you don’t have to). No news in it, though Anthony seems to be trying to convince us otherwise.
But this struck us as an interesting observation (italics added):
“[Bloomberg] pointed to another, less obvious sign that the city was Read More
Lost in the soap-opera story line of New York Philharmonic’s near-divorce from Lincoln Center-its announcement earlier this year that it would decamp for Carnegie Hall, and its subsequent prodigal-son return earlier this month-was news of the center’s first major donation to its rebuilding efforts, a $16 million grant from the Alice Tully Foundation. The money Read More
The Hearst Magazine Building, the stunted Art Deco skyscraper that for 72 years has squatted at the corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, is finally going to be completed by one of architecture’s foremost modernists.
Executives at the Hearst Corporation, which has its corporate headquarters in the six-story building at 959 Eighth Avenue, have Read More
Nothing is more ominous in the museum world today than announcements of grandiose bureaucratic ambitions for expansion, restructuring and–the worst malediction of all–some overreaching Strategic Plan in capital letters. For current fashions in museology all tend to subordinate esthetic distinctions to a variety of extra-artistic imperatives–political, social, commercial, administrative or some unholy combination of all Read More
