Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (April 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Young Money, Kid Cudi, Iggy Azalea, and Nancy Ajram.
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Art
For Peter Dreher, Every Day Is a Good Day
Peter Dreher was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1932, the same year as his fellow countryman, Gerhard Richter. Like Richter, Dreher was an adolescent by the war’s end, an inheritor of an unwanted legacy, which haunts his work to this day. At the same time, Dreher might be seen as the antithesis of Ri
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson and I met on a late winter day when the chill was starting to melt, and talked over omelettes at the window of the Red Cat in Chelsea. It was early on a weekday, the restaurant felt quietly elegant, the light outdoors mellowed by cloud cover. As Halvorson noted, even the potatoes
Art
Sex as Renewable Resource: The Philosophical View
Here’s an attention-grabber to whip out next time you’re at a party with a bunch of New School grad students: Riddle: What do Catholic priests and Patrick Bateman have in common?
Books
One Hell at a Time: Matt Freedman’s Cancer Chronicles
To be honest, Relatively Indolent but Relentless, Matt Freedman’s artist’s book recounting his 35-day incarceration on Planet Cancer, got me at the dedication: “For Radiant Jude.”
Art
Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology
Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in collaborations with professional archaeologists to create digital records of archive collections.
Art
Breaking the Ground Between Art and Architecture
In recent years, the connections between architecture, art, and design have, in many cases, become inextricably bound to another in a kind of symbiotic relationship. For some observers, architecture appears relevant to the twenty-first century only when it emulates an abstract sculptural presence.
News
Art Movements
Major arrest in Glafira Rosales forgery case, Brutalist icon Prentice Hospital is no more, Diego Rivera's Detroit mural named a National Historic Landmark, "stolen" Banksy work going to auction, Rachel Whiteread designs new London Tube map, and more from the week in art news.
Art
Robert Capa's Color Film
Famed for his iconic black-and-white images from war’s torn edge — humane, harrowing snapshots of the Spanish Civil War and World War II — Robert Capa also carried on an enduring exchange in color film. Beginning in earnest in 1941 and continuing until his tragic death 13 years later, Capa shot thou
Books
Unnerving Portraits Stage Close Contact Between Strangers
From 2007 to 2013, New York–based photographer Richard Renaldi approached strangers across the United States and asked them to pose together, close, as if they were friends or lovers.
Community
A View from the Easel
Studios in Australia, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Art
Thunderbirds and Underwater Panthers in an Overlooked American Indian Art History
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York is holding the first major survey of art by Anishinaabe artists in the Great Lakes region, with over a hundred works from artists both contemporary and ancient, all linked by the 10,000-year history of human settlement in the area.