Word: manhattanization
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Currin can make an easy target, a balloon just waiting for a pin. In interviews he doesn't hesitate to name himself as the best artist in Manhattan or to theorize in his lofty, jejune way. (One of his latest conclusions is that American painters have never manifested "the will to make a masterpiece"--which would have come as news to Jackson Pollock, to say nothing of the thundering landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.) But whatever his merits as a thinker, as an entrepreneur Currin is doing fine. With his wife Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor whose high forehead and pert...
...North Dakota and others. John Edwards and Joe Lieberman have similar dreams and much more polished campaign styles--but the notion of a four-star antiwar general from the South is catnip to the Democrats. The knee-jerk redoubts of West Los Angeles and the Upper West Side of Manhattan are in mid-swoon...
Michael Maltzan discussed how his final design for the museum incorporated the temporary nature of the museum with the history of the industrial neighborhood outside Manhattan where it is located...
After three years, the economics concentrator is preparing for life after basketball—and Harvard. The bayou girl will hit the big city to spend the next two years as a legal analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Manhattan office, where she’ll be trading in deer for bears and bulls...
...Fella first bounced into Dash's mind when, at age 19, he went to a birthday party for rapper Heavy D at a cousin's Manhattan nightclub. The money and beautiful women hooked him. Two years later, a local DJ introduced Dash to Brooklyn rapper Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter. They teamed up, and Dash took Jay-Z on the road, but record labels weren't interested. Frustrated, Dash kept hustling Jay-Z at clubs in order to raise the money to start his own label, named in homage to the oil barons. He eventually persuaded Priority Records to distribute...