Star Wars Modern

Viral ad campaign by Lego didn't do much to comfort those put of by Lego Friends. I got in a bit of a dust up on twitter this week,...

Dr Strangelove (1964)   From time to time, as tensions rise in one part of the world of another, someone will bring up the idea repl...

A year or so ago, right around the time of the Armory art fair, I began to think of the international art fairs in a new way,  rather th...

Ed Winkleman (looking for leadership?); William Powhida, Turning in Circles (2014) detail "Truth emerges more readily from error ...

Putin on the Ritz via Dru    Watching the ceremony this week, I looked at all the people - almost every nation of the world represented...

Daniel Libeskind, “Leakage,” from Micromegas Drawing Series , (1979)  “I hate my job.” Cory wasn’t talking to anyone, not that anyone ...

Luke Wilson in  Idiocracy  (2006)  Last Monday I was getting on the elevator with my neighbor (an older artist), her daughter (a ballet...

Greg Borenstein and I recorded a series of podcasts for our 2H2K collaboration. You can listen to the first three here: 2H2K Podcast ...

Eastern State Penitentiary  (1829-1971) via Wikipedia [This is the fifth short story in a series,   the 1st story is  here , the 2nd is ...

Lumpenproletariat according to Akira Kurosawa and The Economist    Years ago I went with a group of mostly french friends to see a perf...

Alfredo Brillembourg presenting Torre David  at this year's CTsummit Last week I wrote a post for ArtFCity titled "A Look at ...

Sears launches Zombie Shopping Department. via Laughing Squid I was interviewed about  The Political Economy of Zombies  today and was ...