Separated at Birth?

by | Aug 13, 2008 | History, Odds and Ends

Jane Kamensky’s The Exchange Artist: A Tale ofHigh-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse may be a Boston book, but it contains a few fun nuggets relevant to what we do here, too. First, Kamensky frames the story — a microhistory of...

DUMBO: Art Under the Bridge

by | Oct 1, 2007 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized

Last weekend, the DUMBO Arts Council sponsored its eleventh annual arts festival, which I’ve attended for several years running. I plan to write at length about a couple NY-related projects I came across, one of which really has me excited, but for now I wanted...