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Banksy of Brooklyn

Jeffrey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:58:14 +0000

For four seasons running, the city's greatest art crawl has been the New York subway system, courtesy of an anonymous razor-witted and -wielding graffito who calls himself Poster Boy. His flair for remixing subway advertisements into strident polemics on late capitalism has drawn an enthusiastic following. But that gig may be up. Police arrested him this week--outing him as 27-year-old Henry Matyjewicz (though this identity is still up for question)--making it a fitting time for a retrospective of his work.

Out Out, Damn Blind Spot

Jeffrey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:38:24 +0000

The Roswell incident notwithstanding, cold fusion was the 20th century’s original “I want to believe” moment.

In a few short weeks in May, 1989, the two…

U. Tube

Jeffrey — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:12:46 +0000

Reserve another laurel for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual: online celebrity.

Forget Charlie Rose –…

SnagFilms: Best Thing for Documentaries Since Netflix

Jeffrey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:39:13 +0000

Last week’s splashy entry into the online video arena of SnagFilms, a widget platform for watching and sharing documentary films that’s being headed up by…

Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy

Jeffrey — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:48:09 +0000

At last March’s Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, a summit that’s been described as “Davos for the digerati,” the calm-voiced software architect…

The Tao of Screen

Jeffrey — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:26:12 +0000

If your computer desktop is anything like mine—and, brother, it is—you’ve paved over every spare pixel in an iconistan of clutter. Desktop design originated in…

The Starving Artist’s Revenge

Jeffrey — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:02:22 +0000

That first solo exhibit, magazine contract or book advance—for creative types, there’s nothing so thrilling as the promise of artistic breakthrough. Ask friends in publishing,…

Music is Cure and Curse

Jeffrey — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:05:13 +0000

Who is the most important person in your local hospital? Seek – or, rather, listen – and ye shall find, according to Oliver Sacks.

Leading a…

Q&A with Lewis Lapham

Jeffrey — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:15:02 +0000

Machiavelli predicted the Blackwater debacle. The Qing dynasty’s homeland security experts knew Great Walls make for great neighbors. Riding the rails was safer in Joseph…

Literary Death Match

Jeffrey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:47:43 +0000

"Judging you is like egging a convent," observed New Yorker editor Ben Greenman of one contestant, shortly before the flinging commenced at last night's Literary Death Match at The Kitchen.