And while the city government is combating large-scale clutter overhead, it may soon sell legal ad space on pavement sheds and waste bins. Jordan Seiler, a local artist who tracks such developments on his website, decided he’d had enough. On a recent ...
On a barge in New York's Hudson River, Jessica Gallucci wanders around Fountain, the Armory's younger, messier but more vital satellite fair. She finds a wonderful zoo of street art at glee-inducing prices, and a delicious sausage sandwich ...
Senator Dianne Feinstein is leading an investigation into the crowd-management snafu on inauguration day that resulted in thousands of ticket holders being shut out from the Capitol grounds before the ceremony. Recently the following e-mail discussion ...
SWEARING OFF THE BOTTLE | September 18th 2008 "Christopher's perfumes are not for everyone", writes Jessica Gallucci about Christopher Brosius, the man behind CB I Hate Perfume. But you might consider a dab of "Wet Pavement" or "In the Library" behind ...
Our guide to what's on around the world, compiled by Jessica Gallucci and Ariel Ramchandani The annual Bregenz Festival returns this month, offering a smattering of opera, theatre and cinema, with the Austrian countryside as its breathtaking backdrop ( ...
There are times when eating at the Fat Duck in Bray is reminiscent of the Regret Rien, in Mike Leigh's comedy, "Life is Sweet". The link between one of the most acclaimed restaurants in the world and a failing fictional bistro might be hard to spot, ...
There's green travel, and there's travel that's positively herbaceous. When you stay at a hay hotel, you sleep on piles of dried grass. They have sprung up in converted barns in Germany and elsewhere in the Lederhosen belt--Switzerland, Austria, ...
The saga of Alfred Shands and his ten original illustrations to Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, itself borders on the fairy-tale. Happily in this case, the story ends not with a stern moral admonition but with the happy news that, sometimes, ...
Jeff Koons is a big baby. The 53-year-old American artist is entranced by balloons, toy rabbits and big-eared puppy dogs. For nearly two decades he has used these images to create outsized, over-the-top kitsch sculptures finished to magnificent, shiny ...
The auction houses were trying their best to put on a jolly face. But three solid days of sales of Russian Modernist and 19th-century painting, as well as sculpture and jewellery, showed unequivocally that the Russian-art market has undergone a ...
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