Art
Art
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Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia
Post-post-punk art crews buckle up for disenchantment
By Martha Schwendener
There's a kind of utopian/dystopian strain running through South Soho right now. I use those terms sparingly, since Thomas More, 16th-century... More >>
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Brian Conley: 'Miniature War in Iraq . . . and Now Afghanistan'
Plus Jessica Jackson Hutchins at Derek Eller and CRG's Lyle Asthon Harris exhibition
By Alan Gilbert
At the same time a number of Chelsea galleries closed their doors due to contractions in the art market and larger economy, Williamsburg's Pierogi... More >>
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Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial
Bye-bye bling! The new realists win out this year
By Christian Viveros-Fauné
The Whitney Biennial could not have come at a worse time. Rarely has the nation—never mind the art world—lolled around in such a... More >>
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'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan; Ryan Wallace's 'Glean'; 'Hotwire Comics #3'
By Robert Shuster
Judy Chicago's artful Red Flag—the infamous photograph of her hand removing a saturated tampon—remains as fierce a declaration of... More >>
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Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins; Superflex's 'Flooded McDonald's'; Iannis Xenakis at Drawing Center
By Robert Shuster
If you left one of Louise Nevelson's ominous sculptures in a forest for several years, you might end up with something resembling Leonardo Drew's... More >>
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Tino Sehgal and Gelitin Offer Up Children, Penises, and Whiskey
Challenging the 'object' at the Guggenheim and Greene Naftali
By Martha Schwendener
Let's talk about the art world's paradoxical discomfort with objects. I say "paradoxical" because that's what artists historically did: make... More >>
From the Print Edition
Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia
By Martha Schwendener
There's a kind of utopian/dystopian strain running through South Soho right now. I use those terms sparingly, since Thomas More, 16th-century author of Utopia, didn't mean what we think of… More >>
The Scottsboro Boys and Neighbors Display Racial Caricatures, Rain Serves Up Family Puzzles
By Michael Feingold
In theater, the story you tell and the way you tell it need to be, to some extent, the same thing. A disparity between style and substance can have its… More >>
Lyon Opera Ballet’s Postmodern Whirlwind Blows in From France
By Deborah Jowitt
People coming to see the Lyon Opera Ballet without foreknowledge might well be startled. The name sounds like a hangover from an earlier century, but during the 25 years it… More >>
Hit-Or-Miss Potty Mouth Insights in The Soup Show
By Eric Grode
If Anna Deavere Smith, Lydia Davis, and Margaret Cho were to take over as guest bloggers at Jezebel, their results might resemble The Soup Show, a hit-or-miss blend of potty-mouthed… More >>
Playing Politics In Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers and Lenin's Embalmers
By Alexis Soloski
Karl Marx famously claimed that world-historic facts appear twice—"the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx knew plenty about history, but little about theater. Human events are… More >>
By James Hannaham
IF YOUSE WANT A REAL SENSE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SIT THROUGH THE AMORALISTS' HAPPY IN THE POORHOUSE, IMAGINE THAT I AM UP IN YOUR FACE, SHRIEKING THIS REVIEW… More >>
By Christopher Grobe
How could a play featuring a golden, ruby-studded nasal prosthesis ultimately be so humorless? Rudolf II, which chronicles the long slow demise of a bipolar, polyamorous Holy Roman Emperor, may… More >>
A memorial for playwright H.M. "Harry" Koutoukas will be held on Sunday March 28, at 2 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South. Koutoukas, a veteran of New… More >>
Brian Conley: 'Miniature War in Iraq . . . and Now Afghanistan'
By Alan Gilbert
At the same time a number of Chelsea galleries closed their doors due to contractions in the art market and larger economy, Williamsburg's Pierogi was adding a second location. Dubbed… More >>
Paul Taylor, The Beloved Renegade
By Deborah Jowitt
Paul Taylor's turning 80 this year, but more impressive is the fact that in the 56 years since he started a company, he has choreographed more than 130 works. Eighteen… More >>
