FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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RESULTS FOR "Jeff Koons"

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Olafur Eliasson's BMW H2R (2007)

Photo: BMW

BMW Art Cars - Jeff Koons

For the past 35 years, BMW has been inviting artists to reinterpret the designs of their cars, beginning in 1975 with Alexander Calder. Only 16 artists have been… read more »

Art:21 Season 5

Art:21 debuts its 5th season this fall on PBS. Since 2001 this series has been profiling contemporary artists in their studio and galleries, giving insight into the thought… read more »

Damien Hirst's Other Criteria at the Gagosian shop on Madison Avenue

Photo: Wallpaper Magazine

Gagosian / Other Criteria

Art for the masses? Not quite. Larry Gagosian opened his art store recently on Madison Avenue consisting of limited edition pieces. The objects that fill the store are… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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