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5 Reasons The 'Broad City' Women Are The Stoner Heroines You've Been Waiting For
If you haven't watched "Broad City" yet, do not read this post. Better yet, you should drop what you're doing, run to your nearest Hulu-ready laptop and stream the first four episodes. Now. Centered on...
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Rear Window
Should artists be called on to solve murders? In the classic romantic conception, the artist is an outsider, a wounded soul whose recompense is the pleasure of creation. While others live their lives,...
View ArticleSix Diverse Creators Taking on the Arts
I recently attended an exhibition called Black Dress: Ten Contemporary Fashion Designers, a showcase displaying the work of ten current black fashion designers from New York. During the following...
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What Is It About Roberto Paradise?
Photo by Adal Maldonado "Why write about a dealer when you can write about the artists?" Asked me someone I bumped into at the opening of the Whitney Biennial in New York, when I told him I was there...
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Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion and Design
Adriana Kertzer is a multifaceted author who earned an M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons, The New School For Design, a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Brown...
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Count to 9
Have you ever been knocked sideways by a performance of a work that you know really well? In fact, so well, that you have approached past performances more as duty rather than a pleasure. It happened...
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Want To Get Your Very Own Oscar Murillo for $1,000?
(All images courtesy of The Mistake Room) Artist Oscar Murillo was already a bit of an art world darling, but then this happened, thus thrusting the British based artist even further into the...
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If All Movies Were Made in the Mid-Century, These Would Be the Posters
I would SO go to more movies if the posters looked like these! Imagine every film existed in some time-suspended mid-century wonderland; the posters might look a lot like these exquisite remakes from...
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Jennifer Vanderpool: Family Stories in Ukraine
In Jennifer Vanderpool's world, history has a way of repeating itself. That is to say, the past has a way of making itself known in her life and in her art. That is not only her own past, such as...
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Toygodd Attends The Crawling Dead Custom Autopsy Baby Show
I once again traveled south to TAG (Toy Art Gallery) this time to see The Crawling Dead Custom Autopsy Baby show. Coming from the mind of Jeremi Rimel, the creator of Miscreation Toys' Autopsy Baby....
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On the Sunny Lower East Side
Even the "unmarked," alleyway entrance to Freemans felt sunny... SIX OF US gathered at Freemans, on New York's Lower East Side, for a cozy Sunday brunch of rustic-style skillet eggs, seasonal...
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Scorching Medea in San Francisco: 2,400 Years Old, Timelessly Potent
Photos by Lance Huntley As the chorus watches, Medea (Leontyne Mbele-Mbong) pleads with Kreon (Dwight Dean Mahabir) to spare her from banishment. To paraphrase William Congreve's most enduring and...
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Abandoned Graffiti-Covered New Jersey : NSFW
With New York's hallowed graffiti hotspot 5 Pointz buffed and freshly hit up with GILF! and BAMN's yellow gentrification tape installation, we've been thinking about the disappearing quantity of ratty...
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What is this, Inception? City Landscapes with Only the Building Facades
Imagine opening a small door on an imposing building, only to find bright rolling fields of grass on the other side. Like a movie set with its tricks revealed, French photographer Zacharie...
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Blood, Guts and Puppet Sex: 'Hand to God' Opens Off-Broadway
Steven Boyer, Tyrone, and Geneva Carr in Hand to God at MCC Theater. (Photo by Joan Marcus) A demon-possessed puppet takes over a Southern Sunday school classroom in the scarily hilarious Hand to God,...
View ArticleSXSW 2014: Doing Things Differently, Doing Things the Same
I'm heading to Austin for SXSW again. This year I vow to make up for past mistakes, avoid running around, to eat sitting down, skip anything with a line and see every band on my list. My list includes...
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Det. Sonny Grosso, Wise Guys and Tales From The Godfather
Former NYPD detective Sonny Grosso I have four members of my family who are "on the job" as law enforcement officers. I have tremendous respect for their public service. And, one of the NYPD's most...
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Signs of the Reconstruction: TRAC2014
Throughout decades of wondering, wishing, and hoping that the direction of art would change, that we would begin to see work that touched us on a human level, that a sense of integrity would emerge, we...
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Living Traces of Wales at Folk Alliance 2014
Calan. Used by permission of Calan. Take your pick: Welsh music is either the poor stepchild of the Celtic world, or its best-kept secret. It's less mainstream than the Irish and Scottish scenes, and...
View ArticleWanted: James Gadson's Drums
Are you the thief? Probably not. But, maybe, you know a guy who knows a guy who took James Gadson's drums. Or, maybe, you bought the drums...unaware that they were stolen -- stolen from a legend. "They...
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