JILL SINGER—On Tuesday, a new installation by Anish Kapoor—the London-based, Mumbai-born, Turner Prize–winning artist best known in this country as author of the mirrored bean that hovers above Chicago’s Millenium Park—debuted at the Guggenheim Museum uptown. Called Memory, the 24-ton sculpture is a lopsided ovoid mass, constructed by Dutch shipbuilders from 154 tiles of riveted, Cor-Ten steel.

Last fall, during our trip to the Habitat furniture fair in Valencia, Spain, Jill and I had the honor of having tea with the Valencia-born graphic designer Javier Mariscal—for no less than three hours. While we sipped chamomile in the lobby of the Westin, he regaled us with long, detailed stories from his past: of hedonistic drug use, of summering with Ron Arad’s family, of staying in Spain after the fall of Franco to help rebuild the creative scene, of how he’d always dreamed of being a rock star. The two of us couldn’t get a word in edgewise, but in our minds we declared him the…

It was announced last week that Glenn O’Brien—editorial director and CEO of Interview magazine as well as head honcho at Brant Publications’ Art in America and The Magazine Antiques—was out. Meanwhile, O’Brien’s erstwhile co-editorial director Fabien Baron, fired from Interview earlier this year, is back in. Since his departure, O’Brien has alternately referred to his former employer as “going insane” and totally unable to fulfill its contracts to writers, photographers, and art directors M/M. Now, O’Brien’s being sued.

It’s hard to judge the merits of Modern,…