Opinion
Weekend Words: Property
This week the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit despite criticism from anti-gentrification activists.
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Books
A Superior Notebook: Richard Hell’s ‘Massive Pissed Love’
When Richard Hell’s I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp was published two years ago, it got a lot of favorable notice, but I never really thought the book — an account of the writer’s life up to about 1984 — was properly understood.
Art
The Necessary Insolence of Peter Saul
Peter Saul has an uncanny ability to seamlessly combine the hilarious and the hideous to great effect. In the middle of chortling at one of his wacky, indecorous paintings, you are apt to suddenly notice an odd and even disturbing detail.
Performance
Performa 15: Diversity, Latex Fetish Wear, and Puppets (Plus the Renaissance)
Performa 15, the New York performance biennial, in this edition looks to the Renaissance as its "historical research anchor," as the festival's promotional materials put it, though in practice, the historical tie is often so vague as to be meaningless.
Music
Beach House Lullaby
The latest two albums from Beach House, 'Depression Cherry' and 'Thank Your Lucky Stars,' were released this year less than two months apart, and good luck trying to distinguish one from the other.
Art
An Early Thanksgiving: The Wagner Gift to the Whitney
Opening in the shadow of the Paris attacks, the exhibition Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner represents — as Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said in his remarks at the press preview — “a celebration of what matters in life.”
In Brief
Dio Mio! Thieves Steal Artworks by Tintoretto, Rubens, Bellini and Others in Italian Museum Heist
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, thieves have stolen 17 valuable artworks from a museum.
In Brief
The Louvre Is Empty
One week after terrorists killed 129 people in Paris, the French capital remains quiet, including its museums.
In Brief
Exact Location of Vermeer's "The Little Street" Discovered
Researchers in Amsterdam have pinpointed the long-debated location depicted in Vermeer's painting "The Little Street" using sources from 17th-century records to Google Maps, the Rijksmuseum has announced.
Film
The Refined Sloppiness of a No Wave Cinema Gem
Eric Mitchell once described his 1978 No Wave film Kidnapped as “a 1960s underground movie happening today.”
Art
Sketches from a Carnivalesque Weekend of Brooklyn Performance Art
A different kind of paean to the carnivalesque transpires in New York City, outside RoseLee Goldberg’s curatorial reach.
Art
Made in Cuba but Exhibited in LA
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — As US–Cuba relations begin to thaw, a pop-up art show continues the decades-long work of cultural diplomacy by Cuban artists.