Michaela Konrad is an Austrian artist living and working in both Vienna, Austria and Santa Cruz, Tenerife. She does paintings, drawings, and comics that are...

(clockwise) Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg From the very beginning of his mad, ecstatic, always-experimenting career, Robert Rauschenberg was looking at photographs. His hungry eye...

This week, as we launch our latest Showdown, it got us in the competitive spirit. We thought that we’d give our interpretation to the age-old competition: Rock, Paper,...

My Autumn began trapped in Vermont after Hurricane Irene cracked the only bridge between my family’s annual summer rental and the roads back to Manhattan. Returning to Europe...

After what Walt Whitman called “the huge first Nothing” of annihilation, with the psychic convulsions of a demonic force still redounding in the acrid air, the...

This week we were inspired by all things fashion, form and figures. With Fashion Week in full swing in NYC and Paris, London and Milan's fashion...

As you already know, we’ve decided to do things a little differently. For this Showdown we are going back to our roots, to one of the most rudimentary...

This week, as everyone is bombarded with Back-to-School messages, we were reminded of a more evocative education, the education of Benjamin Braddock (aka Dustin Hoffman) by Mrs. Robinson...