“TOMORROW, the seventh annual show of designs created in Brooklyn — Bklyn Designs — will open in Dumbo, drawing renewed attention to this neighborhood of former factories and warehouses, and its vibrant design scene. “Over the last six years, the juried show, which features contemporary furnishings, lighting and accessories designed, and in most cases made, [...]
Archive for May 7th, 2009
Designing Brooklyn: 7th Annual BKLYN DESIGNS Show Opens Tomorrow
Posted in Arts & Crafts, Brooklyn, Business, Design, DUMBO, Museums & Exhibitions, New York City, Urban Affairs on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lies My Presidents Told Me: Andrew Sullivan On Clinton & Dubya
Posted in American West, Bush, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Current Events, Politics, Sex & Gender on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Sullivan on what we remember most about Bill Clinton and George W. Bush . . . and the consequences: “It occurs to me that the two most famous statements of the last two presidents will be ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’ and ‘We do not torture.’ And both were lies [...]
The Unburied: Corpses Having Sex, Coffee Table Book on Cadavers
Posted in Art & Artists, Books, Education, Europe, Health & Medicine, Human Behavior, Museums & Exhibitions, Performing Arts, Photography, Science & Technology, Sex & Gender on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Visual explorations of how the human body works have had us riveted since before Leonardo da Vinci sketched the famous Vitruvian man sometime around 1487. That fascination is the focus of what may be one of the most gruesome coffee table books ever. “Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 contains [...]
