I’m much better at relating to subway cars, because, well, that’s where I get my oneness. That’s why I’m so excited that the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority is getting a new car. In fact, there are two: the R110A designed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (Japan) and the R110B, designed…

Ice hockey is a cruel game. Unlike other international sports involving a projectile of some sort, at no point in a hockey game are you…

Although many artists can be said to contemplate mortality in their work — usually in a veiled, Robert Frost kind of way — a clearheaded few have cut through the allusive haze and made their contemplation plain. Whether natural selection, mercy killing or suicide, intimations of death have gotten artists…

There once was a person named Schorr, Who thought that she’d been here before. So she called up a clerk And without too much work Got a file on the Schorrs of yore. While reading the file in her parlor, She discovered another Schorr, Collier, Whose identity it said could be easily had Through a letter, enclosed with one dollar. She mailed the letter on the twelfth, Put the file away on a shelf, And was greatly relieved

One thing is certain: commentaries on Art are the result of shifts in the economy. – Marcel Broodthaers Imagine it’s 1970 in Chicago, Illinois. It has been rough going lately for the city’s independent record labels — what with the corporate monolith of Motown and the recent buyouts of Chess…

A beautiful thing happened over the summer: Ellsworth Kelly’s Sculpture For A Large Wall came to New York. Originally commissioned in 1957 and installed in the lobby of the Penn Central Transportation Building in Philadelphia, the work was on view at Matthew Marks Gallery for the month of June. Which…

Originally uploaded to Joe Scanlan’s website. In 1994, after several years of studying the history of calendars and their basis in the solar system, I designed a new calendar that was more “in tune” with my personal rhythms. Although it contained the same 365 days, the calendar was divided into…

Originally uploaded to Joe Scanlan’s website. “They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” –Andy Warhol At different times in different parts of the world, there was and is great variety in the number of days in the week: calendars with four- (Central…

First published in frieze (Sept./Oct., 1994): 36–9 It’s common knowledge that recycling has had a very limited effect on the imbalance between the production and consumption of natural resources. The idea that we can save the planet by managing our glass, newspapers and plastics in naïve, not only because those…