National Endowment for the Arts

Fall Arts Guide: The Return of the Real

Philip-Lorca diCorcia on turning the ultimate photographic trick

Former New York Arts Club President Agrees to Pay Nearly $1M for Using the Club as a Personal Checking Account

At a time when the National Endowment for the Arts has had so much downward pressure on its fundingthat Kickstarter has become a better source of funding for creative projects, people grifting our local cultural institutions should piss us the hell off. Yesterday, the New York state attorney general ... More >>

You Don't Need Feet to Dance Gushes Sincerity, Begs Some Editing

The Ten Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

See also: Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die

Piss Christ Is Back In New York

Good news, "art" lovers: "Piss Christ" is back in the Big Apple.The controversial Andres Serrano work is just a photo of a crucifix soaking in the "artist's" urine. Somehow, it's considered "art" and will be showcased at the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery starting Thursday.

Mitt Romney Thinks He Can Just "Get Rid" Of Planned Parenthood (Which He Can't) -- And New York Dems Are Pissed!

​Former Massachusetts governor/wannabe GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's currently catching some heat from the left over comments he made about his desire to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood -- something he has no authority to do, even if he is elected president.One of those worked up over R ... More >>

Education Supplement: A CUNY Professor Proposes a Bailout for Starving Arts Students

Up-against-the-wall MFAS

Frank Foster, R.I.P.

via Jazz Legacy Films​ Saxophonist, flautist, composer, arranger and educator Frank Foster died on Tuesday in his Chesapeake, Va., home. Born in Cincinnati on September 21, 1928, Foster's early jazz career was primarily in the Midwest, where he played tenor and soprano saxophone as a studen ... More >>

Should the United States Return the Southwest to Mexico?

And why don't more Mexicans go to museums?

GOOD LAY

Tim Miller's gay agenda

Life, Death, and Rebirth at the CareFusion and Vision Jazz Festivals

The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen

Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

American Literacy: Still Dead

Presumably, I wasn't the only young writer yesterday to get a call from not just his mother but also his grandmother to the effect that American literacy had been saved, and thus I had a future, right? Etc. Mokoto Rich's piece in yesterday's New York Times reported on a new study from the National ... More >>

Chatting With Jimmy Cobb, Kind of Blue's Last Surviving Player

Remembering the greatest jazz album of all time, 50 years on

Letters

Time Trip with Douglas Dunn & Dancers

The 70s are over; long may they live

The Big Clean-Up

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

Canon Fodder

Revisiting choreography of the 'American Century'

Gay, According to Genet

BAM series takes literal approach in honoring French rebel

'Operation Homecoming'

The Bohemian Diaspora

Morning Report 10/17/05
GOP Gets Bolder. Prepare to Be Crushed

The New Apprenticeship

Learning the real-world lessons of the jazz musician's life in a university setting

Trisha Brown's Dance With Electrons Arrives at Lincoln Center

Decline and Fall and Fall and Fall

In our minds and in our cars: Technology killed the 'literary' reader—again

Ain't It Cool?

Lit prof Alan Liu: 'I went to sleep one day a cultural critic and woke the next metamorphosed into a data processor'

Gore-cake

Abu Ghraib and the Berg Beheading: To look or not to look

The Ideology Police

Targeting Middle East studies, zealots' 'homeland security' creates campus insecurity

Deft in Venice

What Does It Mean to Represent the U.S. at the Biennale?

Superman Enters the Culture Wars

Denied Funds by the NEA, a Black Artist Crawls On

Where Are the Women?

Profiles in Outrage

The Money Trap

This Moral Coil

The Karen Finley Makeover

A Persecuted Performance Artist Gets Past Her Suffering

Dig Boy Dig

Jazz at Lincoln Center Breaks New Ground, but Where Are the Women?

Thinner at Eight

Scary Move

When Both Parties Team Up to Target Hollywood, Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid!

The Way We Were

Showtime Exhumes the Mapplethorpe Trial

Poetic Injustice: A Gravedigga Fights for Life

The Critical Condition of Health Coverage in the Music Industry

Running Scared

The Bad Apple Defense and Other Symptoms of Spinelessness in the Art World

The Land of Less

Reeling from a major funding drought, vanguard performing artists downsize their dreams

Your Money and Your Life

A jones for dance can break the bank

Silence of the Lambs

A 17-Year-Old Lesbian Brings Her Censored Play to New York

Follow the Money

Dance in a Global Economy

Southern Exposure

Culture Crackdown

The mayor unveils a new weapon for the war on arts funding

Hunger Artist

The Timely Resurrection of David Wojnarowicz

Rule of Jaw

Ron Athey’s Artful Crown of Thorns