Mayor Bloomberg is presenting his penultimate State of the City address at this hour. His prepared remarks, which we’ve excerpted below, include more regarding livable streets than we’ve seen since 2008, and the most any mayor has said about bike polic... »
Laurie Hawkinson shares student work and discusses the meanings of 'speculation', collaborations between architecture and real estate students, and the return of big ideas. »
2011 Governors Island Resident Brad Farwell is featured in Artcards and discusses his current work-in-progress series Die Transfer Process at the Final Open Studios in Building 110 on Governors Island last December. About Die Transfer Process Using a c... »
We're taking a break from the holiday rush to share a few non-seasonal stories that have intrigued us over the past few weeks. This edition of our Notable News roundup features articles about schools, changes to Governors Island and a new Laurie Berkne... »
TV show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist contestant, Sarah Kabot, will join the Swing Space program on Governors Island in 2012. Check out what Sarah Kabot has to say about “Work of Art”. Pleas check out her interview at realitywanted.com. »
Current International Artist-in-residence, Srey Bandaul, presents Memory of Smoke– a solo exhibition at Topaz Arts through January 15, 2012. Memory of Smokeis a new series of works on paper by Cambodian artist Bandaul Srey. Developing a technique of ap... »
Last year at this time, I did a podcast on Mark Twain in New York and featured this map of notable places Twain worked, lectured, lived and played. Today is the author's birthday -- he was born 176 years ago -- so I thought I'd reprint the map in case ... »
Last year, a not-entirely outrageous proposal by urban theorist and Columbia professor Vishaan Chakrabarti was put forward to use landfill to connect Governors Island to Lower Manhattan, creating an entirely new Battery Park City South of sorts. Compar... »
