As summer heats up, our thoughts return to garbage--specifically New York City's garbage. As I've mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use. To reiterate--in New York City we collect the garbage that residents place on the curb and Read More
LAURIE: Dear Josh: I have been alone in Barcelona for about eight hours, the last three of which were spent sleeping in my little hotel room. It's 8:30 P.M. and the sun is still fairly high in the sky, thanks to the absence of daylight savings time. My room overlooks a paved and red-painted Read More
Barcelona's urban landscape is putting New York to shame. In recent years, the Spanish city has restored the public use of a beach, built a highway to connect the town center with the outskirts, converted a power plant and, well, just made themselves look sexier. The urban renewal initative has even attracted a number of Read More
The Mies Barcelona chair.
A good friend just moved to New York from Washington, D.C. Her office has put her up in a one-bedroom in midtown, and she’s started apartment hunting in her slivers of free time—enlisting me, as someone who has endured this process half-a-dozen times over, to help. A few days after she got here, she phoned Read More
Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portrayal of the upper class, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Based on the title alone, Charlie, a pessimistic know-it-all, feels that he went to see the film under false pretenses. He simply can’t “imagine a less fair or convincing portrait.” Nick, the group’s Read More
Outside Looking In. Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen Offer A Sneak Preview of 40 Bond The velvet rope was lowered yesterday for some architecture writers to nosh on Nobu cod at the sales office for the much hyped 40 Bond. Today, developers Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen, the stylish duo profiled last month Read More
Barça 18 One Star 225 Park Avenue South (at 18th Street) 212-533-2500 Dress: All sorts Lighting: Low Noise Level: High Wine List: Mostly Spanish, around 150 bottles Credit Cards: All major Price Range: Main courses, $18 to $28 Lunch: Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, Read More
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One Star 225 Park Avenue South (at 18th Street) 212-533-2500 Dress: All sorts Lighting: Low Noise Level: High Wine List: Mostly Spanish, around 150 bottles Credit Cards: All major Price Range: Main courses, $18 to $28 Lunch: Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dinner: Sunday Read MoreThere was a time when it could rightly have been said of the Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) what W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy, "In Memory of Sigmund Freud": "if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd, / to us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of Read More
It's been more than 20 years since, inspired by a door in Barcelona, Julian Schnabel smashed a set of crockery and glued the pieces to a canvas, creating a group of paintings that became as integral to the 1980's as Jackson Pollock's drip paintings were to the 1950's. From April 22 to June 5, a Read More
The word is out all over the Hamptons: Gypsy Boy is back in town.
A short notice in Dan's Papers proclaimed the existence of a rare Picasso oil painting from 1898, supposedly discovered at a Barcelona flea market and now on sale at the Vered Gallery in East Hampton for $900,000. Johnny Cossa, a 24-year-old assistant Read More