With the closing of Metropolitan Home magazine last week, the design world lost a champion of modernism. There has been a great deal of breast-beating ever since: What magazines are left to fight the modern fight?
I salute Met Home and I'm sorry to see it go. But those...
Posted August 10, 2009 | 10:30:45 (EST)
A lot of people can't wait for Mad Men next Sunday because they think Jon Hamm is hot. Others just want to see January Jones do her Breck Girl thing again. Poor confused Sal -- will he or won't he? -- that will keep a lot of us going.
...Posted July 17, 2009 | 16:05:28 (EST)
The photographer Julius Shulman died this week at age 98, and I think someone should just say it: Julius Shulman was responsible for the greatest architecture photo ever taken.
Who could possibly photograph the soul of Los Angeles? Shulman did, in 1960. On the surface it's a photo of...
Posted February 8, 2009 | 18:50:40 (EST)
I always shudder when I read the words "If a new study is any guide..." on
the front page of the New York Times.
But there it was Friday morning, fresh from the university press release, now Big Newshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/science/06color.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper:
Researchers in British Columbia have discovered that...
Posted November 16, 2009 | 10:22:01 (EST)