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One hallmark of parametric design is the lightning-fast, almost organic flexibility it lends architecture—which was formerly, perhaps, the least adaptable of the arts. What happens when someone builds a design as changeable as the weather? Visitors...
Letter From Greenwich: What We Talk About When We Talk A...
Forget it,” a Greenwich friend predicted, when I told him I was seeking local points of view for an article I was writing about a Connecticut statute known as 8-30g. “No one will talk to you.” His remark made me laugh. The statute in questio...
Punch It Up
Need a new workout, or just looking for an awesome way to tire out the kids? Greg Loomis, the Wellness Manager at the YMCA, is building on the success of his popular cardio boxing classes with offerings for kids, teens and adults.
Dark and Disrespectful
You’ve probably seen them too, while flipping through bins at the library sale or the Salvation Army: album covers that have been altered in some way. For one reason or another, there are a lot of them out there: whether it’s a singer’s face, o...
Body in Peril: The Photographs of Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge is not particularly known for making album covers; his photographs appear on only a handful. Then again, that handful includes more than its share of brilliant gems. His portrait of Andrew W.K. for the cover of I Get Wet -- an iconic ima...
Troubled Times: The Role of Design in Fascist Italy
Bertrand Russell famously argued that propaganda is better at fostering hate than love, but a group of three interrelated exhibitions on Italian art and design between the world wars, currently on view at the Wolfsonian-Florida International Universi...