Matthew Bedard
Diego Alonso
In February, Spain’s El Bulli, the planet’s best restaurant (evidenced by several years atop the cream of prestigious lists) announced a planned 2011 closure. Catalan Chef Ferran Adrià is finishing a chapter on his molecular artistry. Regarding continued business at El Bulli, Adrià told The Wall Street Journal, “At that bestial place [where he was losing half a million...
PAUL MARLOW
Music for us is part of the air we breathe, but when we are listening to music for the show, it is as though we are hearing songs for the first time, with jaded ears. Every song has history and a load of references and associations. All music comes with some baggage. We like to add our clothes to that baggage. Music is in play as inspiration from...
Janice Stuckey
Alisha Amirkhanian
Just as he illuminated the upturn of the mouth in A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books, 2004), Angus Trumble yet again exhaustively explores the aesthetics and function of a body part—in this case the finger (along with the finger’s humble home, the hand)—in his newest work, the punnily-titled The Finger: A Handbook, due out in MAY from Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
Stephen Brower
In January of this year, the film world lost a giant with the passing of Éric Rohmer, one of the most important directors of the French New Wave. Rohmer, fortunately, lived to the age of 89, having left us some fifty-one films. Wrestling with every subject imaginable over the course of that protean filmography (the last I saw was 2004’s World War II espionage yarn Triple...
Maxwell Williams
For the curious spectator of contemporary art’s more fringe subdivisions, art on the Internet is a conundrum at best. It confuses an already confusing, and very difficult to talk about, section of society: the art world. Major artists have their own personal web pages, something amateurs can claim equal footing with. Companies have popped up for the sole purpose building...
Long Nguyen
Hardly a day’s gone by without the news of a fashion company announcing some new web initiatives, iPhone or Android applications, and other online projects. Fashion houses are now racing at light speed to catch up with the Internet revolution by establishing e-commerce, editorial websites, Twitters, Facebooks, YouTubes et al. Five years ago, Prada initiated the entry into...
