Somewhere this week I got a phonecall by Georgette Koning, who is one of the best journalists here in The Netherlands. Some of you may know her from her many publications in several magazine through out the years, others may also know her from other things, such as guest-blogging for Diane Pernet or being involved with the Arnhem Mode Biennale.Anyway, we talked about gender, unisex, androgynes, etc. Mostly having the focus on female looks and styles for men. Like handbags, boots with a heel, may

The museum’s Pipilotti Rist show cheekily feminizes a bastion of masculinity. (Photo: Frederick Charles/Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. Installation of Piplotti Rist’s “Pour Your Body Out” Courtesy of the Artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, London ) The deliciously named Swiss miss Pipilotti Rist, who for two decades has been ravishing viewers with her fiesta-colored video visions, has risen to new heights of trippy bliss. Her opulently beautiful 25-by-200

Albany John and I hopped the megabus down to Manhattan for the weekend this past Friday. Right now they are in the process of working out some kinks. Hopefully. We got to the Rensselear train station early and stood in front of surface parking lot B. One of the lot people came out and said that the bus was going to be inside the lot because the city of Rensselear didn't want them picking up people on the side of the road for whatever reason and that Megabus had talked with the train station so t