Stop and Frisk

Local

It is a strange moment in New York City’s history. While media outlets across the nation ruminate about a post-racial America, it seems abundantly clear that racial profiling by the NYPD continues to occur on a regular basis.

Another Friend

Fiction

I prefer English gardens to French gardens. It’s not that order and harmony are distasteful to me; nor is it that the imitation of nature delights me. It’s simply that I like not knowing exactly where I am.

Dispatches from Denver

Express

When Obama spoke of the debacle of the last eight years of American politics and said "We're better than this," people knew he meant them.

Echoes of a Bygone 'Burg: TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Gerard Smith

Music

"You always have this weird thing in the back of your head when you start sculpting something; you want it to flow at least as well as this thing you've read," says TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe.

Tribute to Bruce Conner (1933-2008)

Art

Bruce was innovative in a wide range of mediums, including filmmaking, drawing, photography, and sculpture. He possessed an impeccable logic that he would follow through on, no matter the consequences.

The People Have Spoken

It has been a summer of striking contrasts. Banks collapsing, inflation skyrocketing, and New Orleans threatened again—yet record audiences for the glittering spectacles in Beijing and Denver.

John O'Connor with Eve Aschheim

Art

On the occasion of the artist’s new exhibit, Flannel Tongue, which will be on view at Pierogi 2000 from Sept. 6 to Oct. 6, 2008, the painter Eve Aschheim talked with John O’Connor in his apartment/studio in Queens about his life and work.

Joan Snyder with Phong Bui

Art

Rail publisher Phong Bui recently visited the painter Joan Snyder in her Park Slope home and studio in order to discuss her work.

The People Have Spoken

Editor's Message

It has been a summer of striking contrasts. Banks collapsing, inflation skyrocketing, and New Orleans threatened again—yet record audiences for the glittering spectacles in Beijing and Denver.