Swapping his Prada loafers for some Adidas, our very own Fashion Advertising Manager, Andy Innocenti, is training for his first marathon ever! Andy has joined forces with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team In Training program to honor all those who are or have battled blood cancer. With each dollar raised, a cure is closer to being discovered. Andy will be running 26.2 miles on January 11th in Disney World and would love your support!! For more information, or to donate to this worthy cause, click here.

Scene from Shadows in Paradise

"Nothing could touch me less than your affection." Many filmmakers would shy away from such a line in a film, for fear that the characters would be unlikable. But the characters in Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, recently packaged as Part 12 of Criterion's Eclipse Series, are neither likable nor detestable....read more.

Free Danger is a multi-media artist collective based in Brooklyn. They run a record label which put out the Valerie music collective's first release in America...read more

If you're in Boston on Saturday, Lumen Eclipse will hosting their first ever LE:60, a Lumiere-inspired very short film festival...read more

Olafur. If you live in or have been anywhere near the Tri-State Area this summer, chances are you know just which Olafur we're talking about. The Icelandic artist set several major projects and exhibitions in New York City this past summer....read more

Intellectual street-fashion brand WeAretheSuperlativeConspiracy (WeSC) will be celebrating their Fall/Winter 08 line with a launch party to be held at Bloomingdale's on September 18th....read more.

Teshigawara Saburo «Fragments of Time» 2008, photo: Bengt Wanselius

The 79 day Triennale features paintings, videos, photography, installations, sculptures and performances from an excellent group of international and Japanese artists including Matthew Barney, Yoko Ono, Rodney Graham, Miranda July, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ei Arakawa and Terence Koh.....read more.

Karen Walker

We spent a most soggy Saturday wandering to Fashion shows this past weekend, drying off just enough to slip in and see some excellent shows....read more.

Fig 1. The importance of public space quality

Decades ago, the United States – with New York as its beacon – represented to the rest of world the future in all of its endless possibilities.  These days, however, New Yorkers seem to be obsessed with regaining their city's less gentrified past. ...read more