Ascent of A PyrAmid

A Breuklyn-Centric investigation on foot, and by traipsing through time and space, to discover aesthetics, in and out of the context of convention. Evidence of well-heeled, leisurely tracks across the urban landscape. In other words: Stroll. Idle. Gaze. With street smarts.

CINDY SHERMAN? NO SILLY!

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This fall, Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History will showcase a fascinating fragment of its collection of forty-thousand ...

SELF-AGGRANDIZING, YES, YET SIMPLY SPECTACULAR

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Suzy Solidor (1900 – 1983) was the French singer and actress whose greatest achievement was the décor of her nightclub La Vie Parisie...

For the Social X-Ray

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Even though Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli’s stark black crepe Skeleton Dress was created for the Italian designer’s February 193...

Box 272 Interior, Harry Burton, Gelatin silver print circa 1927

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Photo documentation from the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. And, I think, one of the loveliest photographs ever made.

"LA DI DA" LILLIPUTIAN'S LOUNGE

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About one hundred years ago, New York's swanky socialite spinster Stettheimer sisters began the decoration of a dynamic, yet dim...

ICE DREAM

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Caspar David Friedrich’s’ ‘Das Eismeer' (The Ice Sea) 1823/4 Monica Bonvicini’s 'Hun Ligger' (She Lies), 1997 I know what you’r...
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CHARLES G. BEYER
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