Have you ever thumbed through a Lonely Planet travel guide? Almost everyone has, they’re the largest publisher of guide books in the world. In 2013, billionaire Brad Kelley shelled out a reported $80 million for the Australian based company and, to the surprise of many, put a 25-year-old named Daniel READ MORE >
Poet Laureate, Baron Wormser, has just released his long-awaited new novel, Teach Us That Peace. With wit, empathy and honesty Wormser captures the power and fragility of the human spirit in 1963 when racial harmony was becoming more than an American dream. He says, “The question in all my work READ MORE >
Our CEO and chief life enthusiast, Joe Sequenzia, came across the art of Andres Amador and we wanted to spread the word. Amador is an artist who likes to work large. How large? 100,000 square feet large! The San Francisco based artist creates giant designs on beautiful sandy beaches. These READ MORE >
Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has scrounged through historic crime scene photos in the archives of the New York Daily News and has perfectly blended them with contemporary images from those same locations today. The juxtaposition of historic/modern and grisly/ordinary makes for some interesting images. Real fallen gangsters, fluke plane READ MORE >
The Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY. Initiated in 1974 with Roy R. Neuberger’s donation of 108 works of art, the permanent collection has grown to encompass over 6000 works of un-compromised quality examples of modern and contemporary art by the likes of Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Willem READ MORE >
Now through September 5, why not head to the Guggenheim and enjoy color like you’re never seen it before. John Turrell, a leading member of the light and space generation of artists has taken over Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous atrium and has flooded it with light. Well, not exactly Wright’s READ MORE >
The biggest attraction in NYC this summer is the rain! More specifically, the “Rain Room” at the MOMA. The contemporary art group, Random International, has created a digital installation that gives visitors the chance to experience how it might feel to control the rain. In ‘Rain Room’, the sound of READ MORE >
As designers and visual communicators, we owe much to the brilliance of modern masters like Milton Glaser. Best known for the I ♥ NY logo, his Bob Dylan poster and the co-founded New York Magazine, Glaser was more than a founder of modern graphic design, he’s a brilliant theorist and READ MORE >
Moss! Yes, Michael Moss, the design visionary behind the Moss store in SoHo has applied his world famous eye to the Philip Johnson Glass House museum by way of organizing and selecting merchandise for the Glass House Design Store. For those who haven’t visited, the Glass House is the former private READ MORE >
For seven weeks this spring, nine 20-foot-tall, human-shaped stone figures by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone, will transform Rockefeller Center to another time. The work, Human Nature, will be free to the public and is on view April 23 through June 7, 2013. The giant figures are a stark READ MORE >