MONROWE, Issue no. 3
Ad-Age: Jil Sander
Ask anyone in fashion what makes a major campaign different today from what it was twenty years ago, and the first word they usually say is, “time.”...
MONROWE, Issue no. 2
Ad-Age: Mario Valentino
In the beginning, there was only one Valentino. Not Valentino of the startling but stylish screaming red cocktail dress. But Mario Valentino, the son of a Neapolitan cobbler who made elegant bespoke shoes for Italy’s King. Both had shrewdly...
MADISON / 1999
Case Study
Quietly muting the excitement of my first trip to Europe—as a ten-year-old from southern California— was an overwhelming sense of guilt: I was certain that when the US was not starting wars in Asia, assassinating third world leaders or inventing subtle new forms of racial injustice, we were exporting the bland, post-national bad taste of shopping malls, supermarkets, fast food franchises, & hotel chains. And I personally felt responsible. . .
MADISON / 2001
David Lynch
Conversation with David Lynch isn’t always easy. And promoting films is something he’s dreaded his whole professional life. For him, words are at best a clumsy starting point, and a poor substitute for telepathy. But gradually, over the course of a day in Madison, Wisconsin, we did make progress.
MADISON / 2000 (Awarded 33rd ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence In Music Journalism)
Packaged Goods: Britney Spears
The other day I went to the movies with Lou Reed. As usual, he showed up in a taxi just before the feature was scheduled to start, which was just as I was starting to get annoyed enough to go in without him (besides feeling cold, and vaguely nervous and damp), since it was raining...
New York City Ballet / 2016-17
The Ballet
It is now after midnight in Paris. Peter Lindbergh the photographer and I have been talking for much of the day. He is home. I am in New York. We’ve discussed his early interest in becoming a conceptual artist (and making “big” paintings before that). Silent German cinema. . .
European Travel & Life / 1986
Bulgaria
Thirty-one hours by train east of Venice, Sofia beckoned—even if the owner of Harry’s Bar warned me the night before I left, “No one returns from Bulgaria.”
THE TIMES (London) / 1999
Dennis Hopper
No question about it—the weekend out at Julian Schnabel’s place in Montauk was a fine one. Then came the call from Italy late Sunday night asking Hopper to be a last minute substitute for Peter Bogdanovich as president of the jury at the 49th Venice Film Festival.
MONROWE, Issue no. 3
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Over the past forty years, contemporary art–and the ways we think about photography–has changed dramatically, due largely to artists like Sugimoto. . .
Harper's Magazine / 2002
BROWSING FOR GOLD: ADVENTURES IN THE RARE BOOK TRADE
Fame, once suggested Balzac, is the sun of the dead. But without the living to freshen the dead's clothing, tend the furnace, and adjust its complicated mechanisms, fame eventually sputters out. . .
OTHER PROJECTS / 2013
NAMING A JAPANESE VODKA and TELLING ITS BRAND STORY
Suntory decided to create a vodka distilled from rice for the U.S. market. . .
OTHER PROJECTS / 2022
musicinthebarns IS/ARE
An innovative contemporary classic music collective decided it was time to begin its conquest of New York . . .
OTHER PROJECTS / 2023
bandcamp!
By fits and starts over the past decade or so—mainly in partnership with the supernally talented Mike Rathke (Lou Reed’s long time guitarist and producer)— I’ve managed to record a couple of dozen songs, that I’ve begun to release on bandcamp. . .