David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Only in New York: Is it art or humor on E 86th Street in Manhattan, flowers and traffic cones?
Only in New York, on 86th Street in Manhattan, was it art or some playful good humor? Here’s the scene on East 86th Street in Manhattan.
My Ioan Popoiu Masterpiece
My new Ioan Popoiu masterpiece, a painting alive with brushstrokes emphasizing color over all else rests on the floor. Powerful paintings are a challenge. Where to hang them that won’t wash out everything else? Let’s update. Reporting by David Stone…
XY Chelsea Manning, Inside Story Of A Remarkable Transition
About Inside XY Chelsea Manning, a conversation with YRB’s senior editor Jonn Nubian at the Tribeca Film Festival
When Gucci Goes Ugly, Up Against The Wall In New York City
Gucci goes ugly, an in your face blast, two crazy looking women painted on a walls in Soho. A mural decorated an otherwise undistinguished wall over a car lot. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small An ugly esthetic…
Roy Eaton: A black man’s journey to the top of the advertising industry
A story worth telling: Roy Eaton, the Jackie Robinson of Advertising… “If you were white, I’d hire you immediately,” Roy Eaton was told during his first interview for an advertising job with Young & Rubicam. Years later, the Advertising Hall…
Waiting for the Light, New York City Heat
Waiting for the Light is street photograph. It captures the gritty realism of urban alienation on a hot summer afternoon.
Jackie Robinson of Advertising at 89
“I just turned 89,” Jackie Robinson of Advertising, Roy Eaton told me. I ran into him this morning on Roosevelt Island in New York City, the community we both call home. Then, he told me about his upcoming gigs at…
Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis
Birth of the Cool released anew: YRB’s Jonn Nubian talks to the next Miles Davis generation Before Kind of Blue, the best jazz album of all time, the Miles David Nonet released Birth of the Cool. That groundbreaking album gets…
Kadir Nelson turned to sculpture in Major Taylor tribute
Kadir Nelson turned to sculpture in a tribute to Major Taylor. We learn about it in his talk with YRB Magazine‘s Jonn Nubian… by David Stone for Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Nelson’s best known for paintings that become New…
FIGMENT NYC 2019 scenes
FIGMENT NYC 2019 scenes from the first day in Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor