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March 6, 2013Before the Sartorialist,
there was Monet
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November 28, 2012Voice Choices
November 21, 2012The hippie era: not as
free as we thought
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March 21, 2012Theater
February 29, 2012F. Murray Abraham embodies Brecht's complex, compromising hero at CSC
Blogs
December 3, 2011via Heritage AuctionsWe may finally have the answer to the eternal question posed by struggling algebra students everywhere: "When will I use this in real life?" The above image is from Heritage Auctions, and what appears to be a scribbled-in math quiz is actually the work of Apollo 13 Missio ... More >>
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November 30, 2011Voice Choices
November 9, 2011Voice Choices
June 15, 2011Blogs
April 17, 2011
The above is a charming moment from the Tennessee House of Representatives floor. Republican (obviously) state representative Frank Nicely argues that Albert Einstein would have wanted creationism to be taught alongside evolution in public schools, because "Albert Einstein said that a little knowl ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011Not Enterprise, as it is preparing to go into space.Last month we reported on the different museums and institutions vying to display America's retired space shuttles. The Wall Street Journal reports that NASA is going to announce this afternoon that New York will soon be home to one of those ... More >>
Art
March 9, 2011The badass and the 30-year hallucination
Theater
February 2, 2011Ira Hauptman tries to follow up Brecht
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January 19, 2011Voice Choices
December 8, 2010Voice Choices
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October 6, 2010Look back at the best female pop artists
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February 2, 2010Film
January 19, 2010Blogs
December 23, 2009Above is the letter Jim Morrison sent artist Thomas E. Breitenbach in response to Breitenbach's earlier offer to paint a record cover for the Doors. Morrison's concept, in part: "Try doing a triptych. The left panel depicting a radiant moon-lit beach and an endless stream of young naked coupl ... More >>
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December 22, 2009Voice Choices
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November 3, 2009Blogs
October 21, 2009In the last three weeks or so, the publishing world has bestowed upon us no less than three books dedicated exclusively or in large part to the cultural history of food and dining in New York. William Grimes's Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, David Sax's Save the Deli, and Andre ... More >>
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June 25, 2009About a year and a half ago, a pitch fell into my lap from Steven Wells, the infamous NME writer who'd been highly praised and enthusiastically recommended by a determined string of collegial forwards. ("Crazy, brilliant Brit," went one such thumbs-up.) Wells wanted to write a column for this blog j ... More >>
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May 13, 2009Blogs
April 30, 2009All images courtesy Brooklyn MuseumGustave Caillebotte, Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres, 1877
French Impressionism has a remarkable and, it seems, endlessly renewable currency in contemporary museum culture. The recent show of Van Gogh nocturnes at MoMA spawned an agitated, gelatinous daily mob of fan ... More >>
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March 4, 2009Thank heaven for little girls
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January 28, 2009Art
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September 23, 2008Voice Choices
September 23, 2008Film
August 12, 2008Art
January 15, 2008Germans, Spaniards, and Russians invade expanded galleries at the Metropolitan Museum
Art
September 4, 2007Three new artists and the black diaspora
Film
August 28, 2007Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind
Theater
May 22, 2007"Cocksure" behavior leads to trouble for all in Phallacy
Art
October 24, 2006Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney
Art
January 3, 2006A line drawn in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values
Art
June 21, 2005Discerning the difference between the good and the great, the talented and the tremendous
Art
March 30, 2004Art and agitation: Parmigianino as the inventor of a new kind of art-for-art's-sake beauty
Art
February 18, 2003Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art
Art
February 19, 2002Art
May 30, 2000Film
February 8, 2000News
January 26, 1999NYC Life
January 19, 1999The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit
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