Faber & Faber

There are many forms of collective creation, and they run a whole spectrum, from merely coloring in someone else’s existing drawing to the actual creation of a thing from scratch. Often this spectrum of distinctions are lost in the rush...

I recently read an article about a group of Swedish neuroscientists: Björn van der Hoort, Arvid Guterstam and Professor H. Henrik Ehrsson, who conducted an experiment called, “Being Barbie.” Their findings explain how our perception of our bodies determines our...

Ryan and Trevor Oakes at the Cue Foundation On Oct. 22, I went to an event at the Cue foundation on 25th St. that featured Lawrence Weschler interviewing identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes. Weschler interviewed Ryan and Trevor about...

I was recently asked to do a conversation/talk with Janette Sadik-Kahn, our commissioner of transportation, at the AIA New York Center for Architecture Center (American Institute of Architects). Since I imagined there might be some architects or designers in the...

Last week I was in Lido, adjacent to Venice, where the annual Venice Film Festival is held. I had been invited to be on the jury and, naively thinking it would be a kind of summer holiday —Venice and movies?...

Bernardo and I arrived Sunday night and were met by Scott Muller, who works for the Clinton Foundation here. They’re involved in projects that combat global warming. Part of that effort involves advocating for more efficient and sustainable transportation (that’s...

Went to Bar Pitti last night with Malu and Will, and at some point one of them asked, regarding the many waiters running in and out, “Do you have to speak Italian (or be Italian?) to work here?” I replied,...

There have been a lot of huge demonstrations in Santiago recently. Most of them are focused on education—the government wants to begin charging for public secondary school and universities. Public education, higher education in particular, is often very cheap in...

Pretty amazing! Not only is she not a big pop artist, she's Afro-Peruvian—so even further out of the mainstream. When Luaka Bop began putting out her records, she was pretty much unknown, even in Peru. Here's an article from Peru...

LeeAnn, from my office, returned to NY from Sao Paulo—having helped in Brazil (and having helped coordinate this whole thing from NY). Planes have been cancelled getting in and out of Buenos Aires recently, as the Chilean volcano, Puyehue, erupted...