Art
A Race to the Finish Through Bushwick with Beat Nite
Ah, Beat Nite. A time of magical madness, when we run frantically around Bushwick for four hours, trying to see all the art.
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Art
Making Cents of Exchange Rates Bushwick
It's telling that Exchange Rates, last weekend's Bushwick-wide art event, is described on its official website as "an exposition," as opposed to a straightforward exhibition or a sales-driven art fair. The four-day program of pop-up shows, talks, panels, performances, and ambulatory happenings felt
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At Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Two Shows Examine Artists Who Broke Ground in Their Fields
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Affordable Housing Plan Threatens Parisian Street Art Haven
The tiny, two-block-long Rue Dénoyez in Paris's 20th arrondissement has been one of the French capital's foremost street art venues for years, but two subsidized housing projects could spell the end for this plein air gallery.
Art
Evoking the Erotics of the Art Object
The title of Ezra Johnson’s solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, It’s Under the Thingy, is reminiscent of Amy Sillman’s flamboyant one lump or two at the ICA Boston and Bard’s Hessel Museum.
Comics
The Evolution of Imagination
Human imaginations evolved for some very practical reasons.
Art
The Antichrist of Early-20th-Century Photography
Violence, nudity, and the occult collide in the photographs of William Mortensen, an American photographer who gained prominence in the 1930s and '40s but today largely exists as an obscure name in the medium's history.
Art
Anatomist of Influence: Celebrating a Renaissance Physician's Legacy in Art and Technology
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a cadaver lab,” Riva Lehrer, artist and guest curator for Vesalius 500, asked the audience gathered in the New York Academy of Medicine’s Hosack Hall.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Picasso Museum problems, Sweden's font, content moderators, Frank Gehry's f-you, John Constable reconsidered, the endangered bookshops of New York, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Weed
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, High Times Magazine has issued High Times: A 40-Year History of the World’s Most Infamous Magazine, which The New York Times calls "a coffee table book for low, sticky coffee tables."
Music
From Melbourne with Love
Founded by conductor/saxophone whiz Andy Williamson, the Bombay Royale are eleven Australian troublemakers who play their own hammy, modernized style of Bollywood movie music.
Poetry
The Beauty of Christopher Middleton’s Prose
A few years ago, in an essay called “Why I am a Member of the Christopher Middleton Fan Club,” I stated the need for “a selected prose that brings together all the different kinds of writing he has done." Loose Cannons: Selected Prose, which includes an insightful foreword by one of Middleton’s most