White Man’s Medicine: Requip

Entomologia: Insect Art

ENTOMOLOGIA – A Group Show of Insect Art
February 26th – April 4th, 2010

Opening: Friday, February 26; 7:00 – 10:00
Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 3-6; Saturdays and Sundays 12-6

Bon Chon Chicken

Bon Chon’s little gifts of spicy dopeness are back! This fine purveyor of Korean chicken wings (you can choose drumsticks or wings!) has popped up in Little Korea (38th btw 7th & 8th).

You choose between spicy and soy garlic, or mix it up. They’re fried to order and are about as efficient as drunken CVS employees, but perhaps a little competition from Kyochon will inspire some well needed fine tuning in getting those wings out to hungry fat people.

Jay Electronica – The Exhibit Series

Jumping into the game at 30-plus with guest spots from Nas, tours with Mos Def and accolades from Diddy. Jay Electronica may be more an urban legend than a rapper and the freshest thing since sliced bread. Talented with a back-story to match.

Definitive Jux 1999-2010

Pay your respects and download this elegy (gratis) to the avant garde of post-apocalyptic hip hop.

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa vs. F.L. Wright’s Mile High Illinois

Just sayin.

Macondo – A Tour Through Gabriel García Márquez’s Mythical World

Colombia immediately captured Mr. Ferry’s imagination. The quality of “macondiano,” taking its name from the fictitious town of Macondo in the writings of Mr. García Márquez, was present everywhere: inexplicable, surprising, “it couldn’t be, it shouldn’t be, but it actually is,” as Mr. Ferry described it.

When Mr. Ferry received an assignment to photograph “Macondo” for French Geo magazine, he knew to visit Aracataca, where Mr. García Márquez was born and which served as the model for Macondo in “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” But a local journalist, Carlos Marín, said the best place to capture the essence of Macondo was Sucre, Sucre — the town of Sucre in the department of Sucre. Mr. García Márquez lived there as a youth and drew inspiration from the town for “Chronicle of a Death Foretold.”

Mr. Ferry spent three weeks photographing Sucre and surrounding towns. He captured unlikely moments in a place long forgotten. And though he teaches courses in the photographic essay, he takes little personal credit for the images.

Visual Thesaurus

Between Bing, the iPad and Google’s Visual Search, there has been a push for a more tactile and visual interface for computers. When can we toss the keyboard and mouse? The Visual Thesaurus, another step forward, intersects at the crossroads between design and function.

Brooklyn Trolley System

Why are these elegant beasts wasting away on the Red Hook piers? Apparently, Bob Diamond, the urban spelunker behind the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (a Must See!), was planning on resurrecting the Brooklyn Trolley under the rubric the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association.  Sadly, his grand scheme has lost steam.

Greenberg

Noah Baumbach’s latest endeavor.