Richard Artschwager, Whose Multifarious Work Defied Categorization, Dies at 89
Richard Artschwager, who crafted a protean and enigmatic body of work over the course of more than half a century, has died. He was 89. David Nolan Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, which both presented...
View ArticleSorry Dolan: Experts Doubt Vatican Would Pick an American Pope
Cardinal Timothy Dolan may have some fans in his native New York, but it doesn’t seem likely that he will be tapped to replace outgoing Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his surprising abdication...
View ArticleIf You Want to Win Your Girlfriend Back, Don’t Write Her an App Named ‘Shipoopi’
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, which means heartbroken people everywhere are hanging black trashbags on their windows in an attempt to mute the light, drinking screw-cap wine and binge watching The...
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Speaker Quinn Vows to Keep Park Slope and Carroll Gardens from Becoming...
Christine Quinn's headline plan is for the city to borrow money to build 40,000 new middle-income apartments over the next decade. In her 2013 State of the City speech, City Council Speaker and...
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Zach Galifianakis Gets Oscar-Excited With Nominees in Between Two Ferns (Video)
Christoph Waltz on Between Two FernsWe're sure that Seth MacFarlane will do a serviceable job hosting the 85th Academy Awards in two weeks, but come on. Wouldn't you much rather watch comedian Zach...
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Who Needs Clothes in a Human Forest? Moncler Takes Fashion Week on a Trip to...
Moncler's Human Forest (Video)Moncler, the foremost design label for premier puffy coats and Fashion Week presentations involving people sculptures, held its exhibition in New York's Gotham Hall...
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Billionaire Restauranteur Tilman J. Fertitta Buys $19.5 M. Tribeca Crash Pad
From Texas to Tribeca. (Landry's) Tilman J. Fertitta made a whale-sized fortune selling shrimp at tourist-oriented chains like Bubba Gump. Now the Texas billionaire and Landry's Restaurants CEO has...
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Gatsbaby Tabber Benedict’s New York Post Drama Just Got a Little More Personal
Tabber takes aim (Getty Images)Last week, The New York Post came out with an incendiary item about the high-flying socialite (and New York Observer Gatsbaby) Tabber Benedict, who had allegedly thrown...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo Says Iowa Isn’t on His Mind
Environmental advocates just rolled out a full-page ad that will debut tomorrow taking Governor Andrew Cuomo to task over New York’s stance on the controversial natural gas drilling procedure known as...
View ArticleOn the Market: Tom Cruise Selling Condo; Residential Brokerages Are Hiring;...
Around Manhattan, spectacular condos are sitting empty. [NYT] Residential real estate firms gear up for a great year, hire lots of new brokers. [Crain's] Pink Pony rides into the sunset: another East...
View Article5 Ways You Can Still Get Around the New York Times Paywall
You may have heard the devastating news that The New York Times has finally plugged the famous paywall loophole that allowed users to access more than their monthly allotment of articles. Once you used...
View ArticleOn the Market: Poconos Are the New Bushwick; Lehman Brothers Selling 237...
Greepoint ferry pier is still a construction site two years after opening. [DNAinfo] Lehman brokers to sell office tower at 237 Park Avenue for more than $800 million. [WSJ] Brill building sold for...
View ArticleRiver House Lightens Up About the Whole ‘Never Speak Our Name’ Thing
In the world of Manhattan co-ops, River House is the dowager queen: beautiful, powerful and regal, but not as beautiful, powerful or regal as she once was. For years, she has clung to her hidebound...
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Someone Told Me It’s All Happening at 166 Perry Street: Paul Simon Ponders...
166 Perry Street, where Paul Simon was spotted checking out a first-floor condo. When you're down and out, when you're on the street, when evening falls so hard—buy a $4 million one-bedroom condo in...
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The Anti-Defamation League Defends John Galliano Against The New York Post
The cover of today's New York Post takes designer John Galliano, fresh from his "apology for anti-Semitic remarks" tour, to task for his outfit, which the Post deems a mockery of the garb worn by the...
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To Do Wednesday: Bedroom Set
Betony Vernon. Bookmarc, one of designer Marc Jacobs’s gazillion Bleecker Street boutiques, is hosting an author signing with jeweler and sexual provocateur Betony Vernon, who is flying in from Paris...
View ArticleShirley Huntley Keeps the Guilty Pleas Coming
Former State Senator Shirley Huntley, who has already plead guilty to federal embezzlement charges, decided to settle her affairs this morning by pleading guilty to separate state-based charges of...
View ArticleThe Real World: Google Fiber
Good things come to those areas blessed with Google Fiber, and so it is with Kansas City. Last summer, GOOG the Beneficent gifted the metropolitan area with its own brand of ultra high-speed Internet....
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Mike Daisey Announces a New Show About Lying
Looks like Jonah Lehrer isn't the only fabulist making some money by talking about his journalistic fall from grace. Monologist Mike Daisey, who came under fire last year when This American Life...
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Real New Yorkers Like Limestone: 135 East 79th Street Draws a Local Crowd
135 East 79th Street. Limestone and classicism have enjoyed something of a revival in new New York construction over the past few years, perhaps spurred by Robert A.M. Stern's runaway success, 15...
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