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Andy Warhol's Piss Paintings Aren't Exactly Number One Andy Warhol's Piss Paintings Aren't Exactly Number One
By Christian Viveros-Fauné

The figure of Andy Warhol, like Jesus, has come to mean many different things to lots of people. An empty screen onto which generations of arty folks project their own… More >>

<i>Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party</i> Queries U.S. History Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party Queries U.S. History
By Michael Feingold

In addition to Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party (Acorn Theater, closing September 5), which might be said to deal with contemporary gay interpretations of history, this past month I… More >>

Fall Guide: Matthew Vincent Explains How It All Went So Freakin' Wrong Fall Guide: Matthew Vincent Explains How It All Went So Freakin' Wrong
By James Hannaham

We—malcontents, I mean—often find the modern world infuriatingly flawed without knowing quite where to direct our anger. So thank God for Matthew Vincent's snappy rants (though Vincent says he's "agnostic… More >>

Fall Guide: Ken Swift Gets the Upscale Treatment Fall Guide: Ken Swift Gets the Upscale Treatment
By Brian Seibert

The first time that Ken Swift was quoted in The Village Voice, it was 1981, and he was 14 years old. The article was about breakdancing, the first anywhere on… More >>

Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan
By Alexis Soloski

The war in Iraq has inspired dozens of plays. Recently, Broadway’s American Idiot made the campaign positively hummable. And yet the conflict in Afghanistan has barely motivated a one-act. This fall,… More >>

Colin Quinn Speeds Through the History of Humankind Colin Quinn Speeds Through the History of Humankind
By Alexis Soloski

Rome wasn't built in a day, but comedian Colin Quinn covers that mighty empire's decline and fall in just seconds, an efficiency that might make Edward Gibbon wonder why he… More >>

Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime
By Robert Shuster

An empty asphalt parking lot rates pretty high on the ugly scale, so it would seem rather improbable that a painter had chosen just such a spot—in the city of… More >>

'Summer Group Show' at David Nolan; Anne Ryan at the Met 'Summer Group Show' at David Nolan; Anne Ryan at the Met
By Robert Shuster

Slick, digitized graphics clutter our days with such meaningless insistence that even a short visit with the rudiments of picture-making—line and mass—gives pleasures that feel almost revelatory. Viewing this elegant,… More >>

With Teresa Deevy's <i>Wife to James Whelan</i>, A Deaf Playwright Gets a Fair Hearing With Teresa Deevy's Wife to James Whelan, A Deaf Playwright Gets a Fair Hearing
By Michael Feingold

Irish, female, and hearing-impaired from the age of 20 (Ménière's disease), the playwright Teresa Deevy (1894–1963) has everything that could lure a theater into an act of literary rediscovery. What… More >>

Albee on Albee Albee on Albee
By Alexis Soloski

In 1960, Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, a one-act play written as a 30th birthday present to himself, opened at the Provincetown Playhouse. In an accompanying essay, he noted, "Careers… More >>


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