Rotterdam
Is Electro the New Rock and Roll?
The Real Fate of the Stolen Monet, Picasso, and Matisse
Abstract Expressionism's Most Traditional Artist
The Abstract Imperfect
de Kooning: A Retrospective Museum of Modern Art READ MORE >>
Opening Pandora’s Box
Momentum Grows For A Shipping Tax--But Will It Work?
Here's one of the slightly-under-the-radar stories at Copenhagen: The Wall Street Journal has a piece about how any eventual climate agreement will likely include a modest tax on "bunker fuel," the low-grade oil that ships use for fuel. Much like airlines, the shipping industry was exempt from the original Kyoto Protocol, but since shipping now accounts for 3 percent to 5 percent of the world's carbon emissions, that won't last. READ MORE >>
Portents
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West By Christopher Caldwell (Doubleday, 422 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Sarah Williams Goldhagen on Architecture: Extra-Large
A FRIEND RECENTLY TOLD me that his most important pedagogical tool as an architect is this maxim: the architect's primary ethical responsibility is to be the guardian of the public realm, in contrast to the myriad others who currently configure our built landscape— clients, politicians, contractors, developers, and NIMBY-driven "community action" committees. READ MORE >>
Quiet Time
In the short story "Silver Blaze," Sherlock Holmes draws Inspector Gregory's attention to "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time," insists the confused Inspector. "That," Holmes responds, "was the curious incident." READ MORE >>
