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MoMath No Problems: North America’s Only Math Museum Now Open in Madison Square
Through these doors lie all the answers. (Kit Dillon) For North American math museums, like so much, in the beginning there was nothing. Then, for a moment, there was one. A good start, but it didn’t...
View ArticleConfirmed: Muppet Investors Got a Little Bit Screwed in Facebook IPO
In the aftermath of Facebook’s ill-fated initial public offering, it was hard to blame Joe Facebook-fan for feeling like he’d gotten screwed. Not only had the share price failed to pop, it had...
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That’s Capital: Hedge Funder Dan Benton Buys $39 M. Penthouse at 730 Park
It's a move upstairs for the Bentons. Psst... do you want to hear a secret? The whisper listing at 730 Park Avenue, a 12-room duplex penthouse with Central Park views, has sold to hedge fund titan...
View ArticleHow Dan Quayle Helped Make Adam Lanza’s Assault Rifle
Cerberus Capital Management L.P., the private equity firm that owns the company which made Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s assault rifle has extensive political connections. The company’s senior executive...
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You Don’t Know Jack: Brit Actor Sam Riley Talks Taking on Kerouac in On the Road
Mr. Riley (Photo: Emily Anne Epstein) Filming didn’t get off to a great start for On the Road star Sam Riley, who plays narrator Sal Paradise in the adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic. As the movie...
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Richard Holbrooke and Kati Marton’s Beresford Spread Sells for a Deeply...
Holbrooke and Marton. Kati Marton had already moved on from the spacious four-bedroom, four-bath co-op that she and the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke once shared at the Beresford. Now she's finally...
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Deconstructing Larry: Defections and Lawsuits Chip Gagosian’s Enamel
Illustration by Amy Melson Tom Wolfe’s new novel, the Miami-set Back to Blood, has not been particularly well-received by book critics, but at the balmy, prosecco-soaked doorbuster sale and...
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Cartoon Blues: The Life of The New Yorker’s Favorite Depressive Is Drawn Out...
Saul Steinberg. (Photo by Gjon Mill/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Saul Steinberg was the best-loved nonwriter in the history of The New Yorker. He did cartoons, fake maps, trick diplomas and...
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Parks and Wreck: The Fight for Pier 40 and the Myth of Public Parks
Sink or swim. (David Shankbone) When Sandy swept into the town almost two months ago, Hudson River Park—as its name might suggest—was among the places inundated by the swelling sea under more than a...
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The Big Balls Are Back: 2012 Brings Good News for New York Charities
The Central Park Conservancy fundraiser this summer. Last month, more than 700 tuxedoed and ball-gowned revelers gathered in the Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life for the annual...
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How Negotiating With Gun Advocates Just Gives Them More Ammunition
“What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention! First of all, when you’ve a gun— Everybody pays attention.” —Stephen Sondheim, Assassins Last year I had the opportunity to review Candice...
View ArticleReport: M.T.A Chairman Joe Lhota to Step Down to Make Mayoral Bid
The head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joe Lhota, looks like he’s serious about his rumored campaign for mayor in 2013. According to multiple New York Times sources “with direct...
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Things Fall Apart: Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan and Melissa James Gibson’s...
Van Patten and Strong in 'The Great God Pan.' (Courtesy Joan Marcus) It would be an overstatement to say that Amy Herzog has written the ideal contemporary American drama. But whatever the ideal is, it...
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The Best Theater of the Year
'Death of a Salesman.' If 2012 wasn’t the year the musical finally died—like the novel, the newspaper industry and Fidel Castro, the art form will forever be on the verge of death—it was certainly a...
View ArticleRichard Serra to Exhibit Major New Sculptures at Gagosian Next Fall,...
Amidst talk of artists leaving the Gagosian Gallery, news of any artists who show with Gagosian doing exhibitions elsewhere is likely to be closely scrutinized, and potentially misunderstood. Gallerist...
View ArticleBarclays Center: From Eminent Domain to Deron Williams
“It was intended to be iconic,” MaryAnne Gilmartin said of the Barclays Center’s façade of undulating rusted steel just three months after the wildly controversial arena opened its doors. But while the...
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The New York Times‘s Danny Hakim is Going to London
Albany bureau chief Danny Hakim will leave the state capital for London, where he will take over as the European economic correspondent. "After two plum assignments – in Detroit and Albany – Danny...
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Lights, Cameras, Williamsburg! New Multiplex Opens for Mainstream Movie...
The Williamsburg Cinema. Looks like James Bond will be trading his vodka martinis for PBRs and Gandalf his pipe-weed for, well, regular weed, because the stars of the silver screen are coming to...
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What do The Matrix, Dirty Harry, and Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests...
Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests, 1922Given up yet? No, it's not all three films' were described by Rex Reed as "a genre-bending tour de force." These movies, along with 22 others, were just...
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What’s Old Is New Again: A Video Tour of the Future New York Public Library
In addition to unveiling its new designs by British Pritzker Prize winner Lord Norman Foster (quite the busy NYC architect these days), the New York Public Library also posted a YouTube video of what...
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