2011-02-17
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“Artist Yutaka Sone renders highway intersections in white marble, the traditional material of heroic sculpture.” From Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the Harbor Freeway in the New York Times Wheels Blog, from 2008.)
2011-02-02
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A photograph of the installation of Bruce Nauman’s neon sculpture “Life Death, Knows Doesn’t Know.”, part of the Fisher Collection at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from a June 2010 article at the New York Times.
Photograph: Winni Wintermeyer.
2010-08-29
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2010-03-10
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Reaching for Stars When Space Thrilled and Paranoia Ruled - an article in the New York Times on the upcoming book, “Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962.”
There’s some great stuff in the “interactive viewer”, and unlike the Wired ads, which inspire more mirth than admiration, a lot of these are actually beautiful. I’m looking forward to getting a copy of the book.
2009-07-27
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At Border Station in Massena, N.Y., Security Trumps Openness
A photo by Michael Moran of the apparently troublesome border crossing:
“There were security concerns,” said Kelly Ivahnenko, a spokeswoman for the customs agency. “The sign could be a huge target and attract undue attention. Anything that would place our officers at risk we need to avoid.”
2009-04-10
IHT.com Folds In To NYTimes.com, Paper Redesigned For Closer Integration | paidContent.org
I’ve been trying to post a couple of entries on notes.husk.org this morning, and (as often happens) getting distracted. One thing that came up was a link to an Alice Rawsthorn piece in the IHT, but when visiting it, I got this unhelpful message.
It turns out, as the paidConnent story makes clear, that the New York Times, which owns the International Herald-Tribune, has just closed the site and rebranded it as its own. I could live with that (although the IHT design was much cleaner), but killing over five years of archives (including popular stories like these) is pretty unforgivable in my book.
To be charitable, I’ll hope this is a temporary issue, and that soon the archives will be back. If they’re not, though, I’ll be pretty upset with the Gray Lady.
