Richard Serra

Outrageousness: Now Too Big to Fail

Shock and duh.

A Closer Look at Tres Carnes' Texas-Style BBQ

Brisket taco drenched with toppings Many people have been comparing the Flatiron's new Tres Carnes to the fast-casual model of Chipotle, with its assembly-line and infinitely customizable tacos and burritos. But a more astute comparison lies eight blocks South, at Dos Toros, which has brought in Me ... More >>

SOTC March Madness: Philip Glass (4) And The Fugs (13) Have It Out Downtown

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Best in Show: 'Richard Serra Drawing' at the Met Museum

Plus: Almagul Menlibayeva at Priska C. Juschka; 'Drawing and its Double' at the Drawing Center

'En Garde II: omg' at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts; '112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970-1974)' at David Zwirner

Plus 'callum innes | colm toibin: water | colour' at Sean Kelly

Zach Baron's Top 10 Albums of 2010

Guess who? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Alright, let's do this, before I change my mind. With apologies to The-Dream, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo, Kylesa, Swans, Zola Jesus, Marnie Stern, and all other vestiges of my punk rock past, and especially you Nicki Minaj, who missed both of my lists this year. ... More >>

Sneak Peek at 42nd Street's Gay Urban Resort

Big, lavish complex planned—hotel, dance club, spa. Y'all come!

Hell's Kitchen Ex-Homeless Shelter Blossoms Into Gay Hotel Extravaganza

​Just when you think New York has everything, an idea morphs into reality that makes people wonder, "What the hell took so long?" This, my friends, is the definition of one of those ideas. At 510 West 42nd Street, appropriately sandwiched between Chelsea and the Theater District, a hotel calle ... More >>

The Cremaster Cycle at IFC

Matthew Barney exposes his films again

Sunn O))) Leaks Monoliths & Dimensions, For A Few Hours Anyway

"Let's challenge ourselves to not create a track that is not 25 amplifiers and cabinets turned up to 10. Let's create something that breathes, that has space and silences." The advance listening sessions for Monoliths & Dimensions, the new Sunn O))) album (and 7th in ten years), couldn't have fal ... More >>

Alejandro Almanza Pereda at Magnan Projects; Cindy Bernard's 'Silent Key'; Sam Messenger's 'Straightedge'

Alejandro Almanza Pereda at Magnan Projects

Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet

James Nares's Downtown Empire Strikes Back

'70s avant-garde filmmaker-cum-painter returns to the moving image

Paul Chan: A Light in April

Consensus pick projects his influence at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Conceptualist Lawrence Weiner's Whitney Retrospective

Reveals the limitations of a vaunted conceptualist

The Big Sleep

In Wake Up!, Karen Finley channels Laura Bush and Terri Schiavo

Happiness Is Existential Ennui

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Silent But Deadly

Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?

From Pop to Poop

Lights on, lights off-—Turner-winning conceptualist Martin Creed gets a major U.S. retrospective

The Incredible Hulk

Awe and threat at the Museum of Modern Art's vast Richard Serra retrospective

Deadpan Handling

Performance art and the rise of contemporary photography

Ugly Americana

Like A Rock

Pop rocks: The clever, idiosyncratic debut of an artist who happens to make paintings

Knot's Landing

A 35-year survey by a sculptor who eloquently explores the messy, dark side of matter

Art

Blinded by the Light

Reassessing Keith Sonnier, a homegrown Arte Povera artist who brightened up the '70s

Desolation Row

Kafka on 24th Street: Gregor Schneider turns a white cube in Chelsea into a black hole

The Artist Who Fell to Earth

Gnawing on Antoni's sculpture/performance piece, from riveting event to inert object

I, Narcissist

Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

World of Interiors

In the House With Do-Ho Suh

Elephant Man

Douglas Gordon Lands on 'Animal Planet'

Cults of Personality

Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

Off the Wall

An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

Swept Away

On Still Being Smitten With Matthew Barney

Good on Paper

Circles of Light

Jack Goldstein Returns to New York

Going to Extremes

Ten Years After

The Art World Now and Then

Figure One

Panic Attack

Navigating the Venice Biennale’s Sprawling Interzone

Dust to Dust

Primal Screen

420 rip

The Life and Death of Soho’s Gallery Cornerstone

Circus Maximus

Where The Boys Are

Bronx Tales

Double, Double

Mr. Wizard