At a bit before seven this evening I found myself standing beneath the pulsating lights and gently inflating and deflating tentacles of a mechanical septopod, while watching slime mold – in extravagant magentas and greens – creep across a television screen. A woman leisurely wandered past the mold toward the hydroponics to my left, and […]
The Hands of Romeo
La Plata, Argentina — The old adage that necessity is the mother of invention is one Guillermo Gomez-Romeo, grill maker and owner of the custom barbeque supply shop Pigue, has taken to heart. In cow-obsessed Argentina, where per capita consumption of beef hovers at 150 lbs per year, the highest in the world, the […]
The Art of the Party
“Chelsea’s become too clean. We need something different.” Solange Umutoni is not talking about the floodlit circus that used to be 27th Street. Nor is she referring to its formerly notorious nightclubs—places like Cain and Bungalow 8—where the most illicit vice is now cigarette-smoking. Ms. Umutoni talking about art. It’s December 4, 2006, and we’re […]