Saw this copy-heavy flyer on the subway today. Pullquote: It was not a good time for the arts. We barely worked at all, and could not obtain a commission to present our songs during the five-day festival of Minerva. The atmosphere was grim and deteriorating daily. An occasional lyrical collaborator of ours, primarily a writer [...]
Posts on New York
Better Living Through Wikipedia
25 Apr 2007
Because Wikipedia never stops enlightening me, and because Citizendium (the “elitist, anti net-cultural counter-project to Wikipedia,” as summed up by Florian Cramer) never stops boring me, I thought I’d post an annotated list of recent Wikipedia contrails. None of the following items can be found on Citizendium, and I’m not about to apply for the [...]
Award Tour
19 Apr 2007
Work, travel and ironing have been consuming potential updates to this site but the 92nd Street Y summer season is now live. Go buy yourself an art class. I’m also pleased to report that the New York Society of Association Executives just awarded us with the 2007 Cyberspace Award for 92Y.org in the donor category. [...]
History Blogging is the New Twitter
22 Mar 2007
We’re on a history kick at the 92nd Street Y today. It’s all because of Shorpy.
Unusual New York Public Library Collections
19 Mar 2007
Research Room panorama. Full version. The New York Public Library as we know it today began with the merging of three private collections, those of James Lenox, John Jacob Astor and Samuel J. Tilden (hence the library’s official name: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). Since then many other fabulously wealthy [...]
New York Magazine Hardcore
05 Dec 2006
It’s been too long since a New York magazine cover story got this kind of reaction. Video clips from a classic 1986 episode of Donahue: Where’s Peter Blauner now, you ask? Busy. UPDATE: If you want to read the original article, here’s the PDF. UPDATE 2: Peter Blauner offers his take on the article and [...]
Providence’s DIY Wunderground
10 Oct 2006
Providence types may be interested in this set of shoddy cameraphone pics I just uploaded to Flickr. They were surreptitiously taken at the RISD Museum’s blow-out exhibition, WUNDERGROUND: Providence, 1995 to the present. New York-based Providence types may be interested in the fact that tonight, October 10, Gary Panter and Matt Groening will be riffing [...]
