Drinks with performance artists tend to keep you on your toes. You're always wondering if something they say, the way they walk, or the thing they're holding in their left hand might be part of the act: a highly scripted, reactive, and meaningful performance intended for your immediate apprehension and interpretation in…

As the plaintive wail of an ambulance drifted up 2nd Avenue last Friday night, a group of about 30 people at the corner of East 10th Street paused to listen to the siren as it passed by. I had joined a nocturnal urban hunt, an aural field trip through New York City…

I stopped by the Camp for Oppositional Architecture Friday night.  It was a "bar+" night; lectures are held in the space every other day, but nonetheless I wanted to see the space on Front Street in DUMBO and talk to some of the renegades behind An Architektur. I spoke with a German…

Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday - some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.