ReThink Review: Reaching for the Moon - Of Parks and Poetry
For a long time, many have criticized the dearth of good leading female roles in movies. If Meryl Streep made a movie in a given year you could reliably expect her to win the Best Actress Oscar (often...
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Painstakingly Preserving Israel's Past, One Photo at a Time
Israel is too often caricatured, distorted, turned into a polemic. But for millions, it is home, the setting of their childhood, of first kisses, family picnics, tough break ups, fond memories of all...
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John Escreet's Sabotage and Celebration: A Work to Celebrate
John Escreet is a 29-year-old pianist originally hailing from Doncaster, England, who has resided stateside since 2006. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music with the pianists Kenny Baron and...
View ArticleGünter Grass: Facebook Is S***
"Someone who has 500 friends, has no friends." An interview with the Nobel Prize winning author Günter Grass on why he dislikes Facebook, computers and the internet. Writer Günter Grass on why he...
View ArticleGregory Euclide on the ImageBlog
WHEN I NOTICED THE TETHERING EDGE OF NATURE AS BARRIER AND DENSITY AS FUTURE CATEGORIES: RELIEF YEAR: 2013 DIMENSIONS: 48 X 48 X 2 MEDIA: ACRYLIC, SUMI, PAPER, METAL WIRE
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David Wiseman: Design Miami/ (VIDEO)
Having created installations for the likes of Christian Dior in New York and the West Hollywood Library, Wiseman has blossomed into a darling of the design world. This week, his lattice-inspired...
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A Drawing A Day For One Year: метаморфоза Week 7
This is Week 7 of my daily drawing series, метаморфоза (Metamorphosis.) I hope you enjoy it. метаморфоза is a daily drawing project, a visual trajectory, generated through free association. Its themes,...
View ArticleHonoring Nelson Mandela Through Film
Nelson Mandela, who rallied his country to end apartheid, became the country's first black president, and won the Nobel Peace Prize, died yesterday. The man lived nearly a century, yet his death came...
View ArticleAll Hail Godney: Understanding The Deification Of The Untouchable Britney Spears
On Thursday, Vulture's Jody Rosen skewered not just Britney Spears' new album, "Britney Jean," but Britney Spears herself, calling the 32-year-old "antimatter in a belly shirt" and postulating that she...
View ArticleCSI's Most Awesome Tool, Now Available at a Museum Near You
Crime involving art is nothing new. Most of us heard about the multimillion dollar Rotterdam Art Heist. For those who haven't, Romanian filmmaker Tudor Giurgiu has announced plans to turn it into a...
View ArticleInterview with Okwui Enwezor, Director of the 56th Venice Biennale
Interview with Okwui Enwezor, Director of the 56th Venice Biennale On Wednesday, December 4, the Press Office of the Venice Biennale announced the appointment of the Nigerian-born curator and scholar...
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"TOMORROW": Elmgreen & Dragset Build Their Latest Walk-through Fiction, at...
Why do artist duos so often operate with a sardonic sense of humor, in various shades of black? Think of the caustic wit that inflects the work of the Chapman Brothers, Fischli/Weiss, Gilbert &...
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Marthe Ramm Fortun's Inverted Sky
Marthe Ramm Fortun discusses her performance, Inverted Sky, a site specific project at Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. Inverted Sky is a Performa Project co-presented with MTA Arts for...
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The Writing on the Wall
In 1973, democratically elected, socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was ousted from office in a CIA-backed coup d'état. Led by Augusto Pinochet with the support of all military branches,...
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A Love Beyond
Iranian Musician Anis Oveis Risks Everything for Music Outside in the night air, a security guard keeps watch for authorities. Inside, a beautiful young woman fidgets with her scarf, making sure her...
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Israeli Pop Legend Danny Sanderson Has a Date With LA
Danny Sanderson's Dec. 8 show at American Jewish University's Gindi Auditorium will feature a career retrospective. Photo by Yoav Etiel If you've been to Israel in the last 40 years or heard Israeli...
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Beyond the Walls of Art Basel Miami Beach
The chaos of Art Basel Miami Beach is bigger than ever before, with even more satellite fairs, special projects, artist talks and museum openings. As if the fairs themselves weren’t enough to keep you...
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Stage Door: Waiting For Godot, No Man's Land
"There is no lack of void," Estragon/Didi explains to a cruel world. While his laments strike both a humorous and disturbing chord, the current Broadway revival at the Cort Theater of Waiting For...
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Proust's Popcorn: The Oriental Landmark Theater
PROLOGUE Last week I was in Milwaukee to attend production meetings at the Skylight Music Theater for my latest show. It was my first visit to my hometown in nearly a decade. A late night stroll down...
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