News & Politics • Home In Today’s Transom: Uptown, Midtown, and Upper Midtown Come and get your hot permanent links to the sexy items of this week’s column: Sign Up For Our Daily By Observer Staff • 03/01/06 10:14am Come and get your hot permanent links to the sexy items of this week’s column: Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter Sign Up Thank you for signing up! By clicking submit, you agree to our <a href="http://observermedia.com/terms">terms of service</a> and acknowledge we may use your information to send you emails, product samples, and promotions on this website and other properties. You can opt out anytime. See all of our newsletters Harlem preservationist Michael Henry Adams turned 50, but is still ready to storm Gracie Mansion or anywhere else. Yesterday, critics crawled through the Whitney Biennial. For many of them, its as if they were speaking a separate language: Blah Blah Artspeak. Wynton Marsalis sure is popular. You know who was at the Asia Society’s 50th-anniversary benefit? Really very quite wealthy people. But how are they on Asia-related foreign policy?