20 years after the Berlin wall, The New Museum exhibited more than 50 artists from both the East and West last October 2011. The art was a profound commentary on Communist society. Here’s the interview I conducted with the shows curator for The Standard Culture site. Read more »

We love Oscar de la Renta… and Oscar de la Renta loves Spain. We were called upon Nowness to film Oscar de la Renta and Andre Leon Tally discuss the paintings of Joaquín Sorolla alongside an exhibit of exquisite top designers, all conceived by De la Renta and curated by Leon Talley. Read more »

This December, my co-Director Crystal Moselle and I, experienced one of our favorite gigs, speaking to the prominent British architect, Lord Norman Foster, about his reconstruction of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car. It all took place at Art Basel 2011 in Miami Beach. Read more »

“I write today with the great excitement of introducing our recent project in Afghanistan with you” writes Jon Rose, Founder of Waves for Water, who we mentioned last year for his water project in Haiti. Jon is an ex-pro surfer turned humanitarian, and boy does he have fun following his passion. Read more »

Recently, me and my co-director Crystal Moselle were called up by Nowness to create a filmic interpretation of a novel just released by a mutual colleague Christopher Bollen, the Editor for Interview magazine. Read more »

As some of you may know, one of my beloved clients is The Standard Hotel, simply because their lifestyle is such a ripe mix of culture, arts, fashion, and now this week, sports. Read more »

On the eve of Fashion Week at The Standard New York, Designers Jeffrey and Robert (known as Costello Tagliapietra) are preparing for their big Fashion Show this week. One of us Standardites swung through their room to check up on their activities and make sure they were all fine and happy. Read more »

Lyle Owerko is what you would call an archivist. Without intending to create The Boombox Project, the photographer began amassing a vast collection years ago for his own passion– saving ghetto-blasters from thrift stores or random “hand-me-downs”, just for the sake of preserving a piece of Hip Hop history. Read more »

It’s not every day our minds get blown by an original concept. In this case, the social experiment is entitled The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC). Read more »

Sometimes, I’m shocked at the wisdom that the Walt Disney Production imparted early in it’s career. Here’s a 1943 animation called Chicken Little, which is an interesting tale posed about stirring the masses through fear-mongering. Dare I say, it’s highly political. Read more »