Author Archives: Felix

There’s a lot of garbage written about Apple, but the cover story of the latest issue of Fast Company seems pretty fair, if unoriginal. (Innovation on its own doesn’t make money: who’d’a thunk?) The bit which piqued my interest was … Continue reading →

The design for the Freedom Tower – the big signature building which is to rise at the northwest corner of the World Trade Center site – was unveiled with great pomp today. Grand speeches were given by George Pataki, Michael … Continue reading →

Anthony Tommasini is on holiday; in his place yesterday (the "critic’s notebook" feature on the front page of the New York Times arts section), the Metropolitan Opera ran a 2,000-word fundraising drive under his byline. Or maybe he wrote it … Continue reading →

Firstly, many apologies for not updating this blog in a little while. I would use the excuse that I was in Uruguay for most of the time, but that would be disingenuous, since I had (a) laptop; (b) internet connection … Continue reading →

When I posted an entry on 2 Columbus Circle last month, I said that "The lack of windows gives it the feel of a prison: you imagine yourself stuck inside, unable to look out. It is an exercise in claustrophobia, … Continue reading →

It’s the battle of the ArtsJournal bloggers! Taking a perfectly good Boston Globe editorial as their jumping-off point, Terry Teachout and Greg Sandow came to different conclusions about what National Public Radio (NPR) can and should do with its $200 … Continue reading →

If you’ve picked up a reasonably highbrow magazine recently, chances are that you’ve seen a feature on Diane Arbus. She’s all over the news because a major retrospective, Diane Arbus Revelations, opened at SFMOMA on October 25. It would be … Continue reading →

Terry Teachout chimed in yesterday on one of those low-level debates which never seems to get resolved one way or the other: whether it’s a good or a bad thing to applaud an orchestra between the movements of a concerto … Continue reading →

Sunday is clearly the day for long-windedness in the New York Times. The paper leads with a 9,500-word investigation of the Lackawanna terror case (don’t ask me), complete with a 1,300-word kicker. And on the op-ed page, we’re subjected to … Continue reading →

Publishing on the internet has never been as easy as the technoütopians would have it. (This week, I’ve decided to maximise my use of the diaeresis: see this MemeFirst entry if you want to know why.) And after fiddling around … Continue reading →

DVD is a great medium: there’s a virtually limitless list of films available, they look much better than they do on VHS, and you can do things like freeze-frame much more effectively. But until now, the market has been dominated … Continue reading →

Who will stick up for PowerPoint? It’s always been the subject of low-level grumblings, and Lance Knobel points out that the World Economic Forum, in Davos (usually), has long had a "deep-rooted aversion" to allowing it into presentations. But ever … Continue reading →

I promise – promise – that this will be absolutely, positively, my last WTC post. This week, anyway. My piece yesterday was in response to some good questions which were asked back in January and which I felt I could … Continue reading →

Back from a long weekend, there’s lots of fabulous new stuff I want to blog about, but first I want to get the last of the WTC stuff off my chest. My last post, on the design revisions, got a … Continue reading →