LAST WORDS

George Nelson: Architect | Writer | Designer | Teacher

July 1, 2009 Publishing By Tom Ran

Late last year the Vitra Design Museum hosted an exhibition featuring the life’s work of George Nelson. To coincide with the show a book was published titled George Nelson: Architect | Writer | Designer | Teacher. The catalog features eight essays written by German and American design historians along with numerous photos of Nelson and his body of work covering the various disciplines. As far as we know the book was never officially released in the U.S. though some independent book sellers have it listed on Amazon.

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Agnes Denes

June 30, 2009 New York By Tom Ran

Victory gardens or edible estates have received quite a bit of attention in the last couple of years, with the culminating awareness in food and environmental issues. But back in the 1980’s it wasn’t the hot topic it is today. Artist Agnes Denes challenged urban growth with her defining piece titled Wheatfield A Confrontation. With the help from the Public Art Fund, Denes planted 1.8 acres of wheat in a landfill in downtown Manhattan. The project spanned four months and yielded 1000 pounds of hay, some of which were then fed to the horses that serviced the NYPD. Read more about the project on Green Museum’s website.

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Summer Movie Nights at Ace Palm Springs

June 29, 2009 Film By Tom Ran
Movie Night at Ace Hotel & Swim Club

Photo: Ace Hotel

Maybe the sequel to Transformers isn’t your thing or any of the major blockbusters coming out this season for that matter. Maybe it’s the smaller movies that appeals to you. IFC has teamed up to bring you movie night this summer in the desert with Ace Hotel in Palm Springs starting July 18th. The first movie to be screened in the series is In The Loop, “a biting and hilarious satire of U.S. and British Politics.” The screenings will switch over to Thursday nights in August with a full listing to come.

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EVENTS

June 24 - June 28

ART

No Soul For Sale

X Initiative

June 20 - September 26

FAIRS

Recess: The Lawn Series

Governor's Island

June 9 - December 31

ART

Spencer Finch: The River That Flows Both Ways

The High Line

April 28 - October 25

ART

Roxy Paine: From the Ground Up

The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ James Cohan Gallery

June 10, 3PM - 7PM

FILM & THEATER

Food Inc.

Bell House

March 26 - June 6

ART

Picasso: Mosqueteros

Gagosian Gallery

May 15 - September 20

FILM & THEATER

Rooftop Films

Summer Series

May 14 - June 14

ART

Ernesto Neto: anthropodino

Park Avenue Armory

March 12 - June 19

ART

Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect

Whitney Museum of American Art

December 3 - January 15

RETAIL

Artbook @ Den

September 26 - December 31

ART

Jenny Holzer's For the Guggenheim

Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim

October 1 - December 31

ART

Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts

Mad. Sq. Art presents Tadashi Kawamata
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FEATURES

Life of a Personal Chef

By Maggie Shi
Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Whiskey Prawn Skewers w/Tomato Curry

Photo: Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Melissa Ricketts

It sounds like an idyllic life—cooking inventive meals in private homes, working flexible hours, spending your days shopping at the greenmarket, and getting paid to do it all. Read More

Six Thousand Miles From Home

By Sarah Williams
Clouds blanketing the mountains as it passes through.

Photo: Staff

After a tumultuous flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas and six hours in a van with our new best friends, we arrive at our magnificent base camp—Explora’s Hotel Salto Chico in Chilean Patagonia. The glowing light from the windows is a welcoming site of hospitality here at the edge of the world. Read More

A Delicious Improv

By Maggie Shi
The gathering of the chefs

Photo: Staff

It was a long ride from Manhattan on the A train (running local, naturally) to BedStuy on a cold Saturday afternoon. Exiting at the Utica Avenue stop, in a completely foreign neighborhood, there was one task at hand – to find Stuyvesant Avenue and a certain brownstone. Read More

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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