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Our March feature on the surprising boom underway in New York’s luxury hotel industry drew an enthusiastic response from several readers, including Bill Foley, a senior copywriter for McCullough Creative, an advertising agency located in Dubuque, Iowa. “When did that magazine beneath my tray table get so cool?” he writes. “I HEMISPHERES THREE PERFECT DAYS: AUSTIN loved reading about Ace, the Jane, the Standard and all the other hip new hotels that have been NEW YORK’S NEW LUXURY HOTEL BOOM (ONE LUCKY WRITER TRIES THEM ALL) STYLE SPECIAL CYNTHIA ROWLEY, ROBERTO CAVALLI sprouting up in New York recently. Next time AND LONDON’S TOP FASHION SCHOOL I’m in town, I’ll make a beeline for that loft in the Ace.” The hotel’s big selling point? The inclusion of an acoustic guitar in some rooms. “It’s quite a perk,” says Foley. Let’s hope the guests in the next room agree.

Meanwhile, our feature on conceptual artist Gabriel Orozco brought plaudits from the art world. Olga Viso, director of the highly regarded Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, writes that she A STAR ALLIANCE MEMBER

was “heartened to fi nd Aaron Gell’s well-written profi le of artist Gabriel Orozco [‘Crazy Tourist,’ December 2009] in the pages of Hemispheres. How great to have an in-depth piece on a conceptual artist reach a wider audience. Kudos to you and your staff for featuring this artist, whose work is both challenging and elusive. Mr. Gell thoughtfully captured Orozco’s ability to see everyday objects in a new way.”

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KEVIN GRAY Profi ling inventor Dean Kamen (“The Creator,” page 76), Gray says, inspired him to try to invent “a robot child who would love me unconditionally.” A contributor to Details, New York and Newsweek, Gray relaxes by playing music with friends. “My ultimate vacation is a recording studio in Brooklyn where I go to make believe I still rock.”

YUI NATSUYAGI The photographer of this month’s Hero (“Instruments of Change,” page 33) is at work on a project detailing her culture shock on moving back to Japan after 20 years in the U.S. “After being away for such a long time,” the Puffi n Grant recipient says, “I am looking at everything through my ‘foreign’ eyes, fascinated and shocked.”

ALAN LIGHT The former editor in chief of Vibe and Spin magazines is currently the director of programming for Live from the Artists Den, a public television concert series. While Light is a huge fan of crooner Rufus Wainwright, whom he profi les on page 46, he says, “my favorite song is whatever my sevenyear-old son is playing on his guitar.”

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