Last Friday, I decided on the spur of the moment that The Daily Heller post was going to be a reprise of an earlier published notice on Steven Brower’s last book, Roy Kuhlman: The Reluctant… Read More »The Daily Heller: It Was Great Working With You, Steven Brower
Physical media always presents an opportunity for exploration. The boundaries of printed material are meant to be pushed, and I’m always eager to see artists of all kinds doing just that. French composer and pianist… Read More »Pianist Sofiane Pamart Creates Immersive Visual Worlds for His Albums and Score Books
Wiedemann Lampe’s rebrand of London’s Gunnersbury Park and Museum finally answers an awkward question: is it one place or two? Ask most Londoners what’s inside Gunnersbury Park, and you’ll get a shrug, a mention of… Read More »For 100 years no-one noticed it, but this rebrand finally gives Gunnersbury Museum a reason to be found
A 37-foot data sculpture appeared inside New York’s Oculus for two days only, turning stock market noise into something you could actually watch happen. Ask most people what a fund manager does all day, and… Read More »People don’t know what a fund manager does, so T. Rowe Price built a giant art installation to explain it
In 2016, the United States National Weather Service made an announcement: “LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS WILL STOP YELLING AT YOU.” The announcement only makes sense if you accept… Read More »How ALL CAPS Lost Its Voice
I’ve been catching up on my summer beach reading—mostly novels that take place in Berlin during the 1920s–early ’30s Weimar Republic before the deluge (Philip Kerr’s “Bernie Gunther” Weimar/Nazi detective series and Volker Kutscher’s noir… Read More »The Daily Heller: When Berlin Was Too Depressing for Words