Michele Siegel appears in the following:
Pico Iyer's Fascination with Graham Greene
Friday, March 02, 2012
Graham Greene wrote more than two dozen novels between the 1920s and the 1980s — downbeat bestsellers set in sketchy places. Writer Pico Iyer has felt an almost mystical connection ...
360 Field Trip: Postcard From the Edge
Monday, February 06, 2012
This month, light and space is oddly, magically graspable at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, New York. Doug Wheeler's SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 is an experience that is near-impossible...
Eve Beglarian's Huck Finn Adventure
Friday, February 03, 2012
In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River. The sounds and stories she gathered from the trip inspired her new collection of composition...
How Well Do You Know The Boss?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Bruce Springsteen's album Wrecking Ball comes out March 6. A recent press announcement supplied a track list of eleven hardscrabble-titled songs. We've come up with our own list of te...
Back to School: Teacher Redesign
Friday, January 20, 2012
Teachers deserve better than the old-fashioned visual junk they're often stuck with—apples, ABCs, one-room schoolhouses with bells on top. A top-notch graphic designer fixed all that.
Redesigning Teachers: Inside the Design Studio
Friday, January 13, 2012
To rebrand educators for the 21st century, Studio 360 selected Hyperakt, a New York design firm that’s done projects for UNICEF and GOOD magazine, among others. At a recent brainstorm...
Big in 2012: Our Predictions
Friday, January 06, 2012
Kurt Andersen notes that we're in an age of flux and paralysis at the same time. In entertainment, we yearn for authenticity — but ten million of us watch the Kardashians every week...
Teachers: No More Apple Crapple
Friday, December 09, 2011
For our next redesign project, Studio 360 is giving schoolteachers a makeover. Turns out a lot of teachers hate the treacly, old-fashioned visual imagery that gets dumped on them (A...
Kate Winslet
Friday, December 09, 2011
Kate Winslet was just 21 when she starred in the mega-blockbuster Titanic (1997). She's been in high demand ever since.
Newt Gingrich: The Candidate as Novelist
Friday, December 09, 2011
It seems like every Republican presidential campaign right now is doubling as a book tour (Michele Bachmann’s Core of Conviction: My Story, Ron Paul’s Liberty Defined, Rick Perry’s Fe...
2011: Dud Year for Movies?
Friday, December 02, 2011
This year saw a record number of sequels, reboots, and spin-offs: of the ten highest grossing movies, only one, Bridesmaids, was entirely original. Kurt Andersen talks with Sharon Wax...
Taming the Internet's Wild West
Friday, November 18, 2011
For as long as there's been a World Wide Web, there's been a giant unresolved issue with what’s on it: those millions of songs, videos, TV and movie clips we enjoy for free — somebo...
American Icons: The House of Mirth
Friday, November 11, 2011
Lily is a smart single woman, a beauty in demand on the party circuit. But Lily is nearing thirty, and struggling to manage money, friendships, and romance. In The House of Mirth, E...
A Great Moment for 20th Century Photography
Monday, November 07, 2011
Right now 20th century photography geeks are experiencing something of a perfect storm. From a new coffee table book, to a major museum exhibition, to images just made available on Wikimedia Commons ...
Private Space Gone Public at Wall Street
Friday, October 14, 2011
Kurt Andersen and Michael Kimmelman head to Lower Manhattan to check out the transformation of Zuccotti Park, the plaza at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Kimmelman is t...
About Face
Friday, October 07, 2011
There are thousands of closed–circuit surveillance cameras in New York City. One of them belongs to the artist Wafaa Bilal. Last year, Bilal had a tiny camera surgically embedded in t...
Finding the Future in a 2,000 Year Old Poem
Friday, September 30, 2011
An epic poem written more than 2,000 years ago by a Roman named Lucretius may be one of Western culture's most profound examples of art anticipating scientific discovery and modern thought. The poem is called "On the Nature of Things", and it presents all kinds of radical ...
Street Art Storms Russia
Friday, September 30, 2011
This week, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev announced that Vladimir Putin would be United Russia's candidate next year, all but assuring him the presidency — possibly until 2024. M...
Wesley Stace Becomes John Wesley Harding
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wesley is a talented man. His third novel (under his given name, Wesley Stace) came out this year, a crime story called Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer. Under the stage name...
Museum Cancels Exhibit of Palestinian Kids’ Art
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is back on the front pages this week. The Palestinian Authority is seeking admission as a member state to the United Nations and emotions are runnin...
