Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (December 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Eminem, Haim, Dean Wareham, and Queens of the Stone Age.
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Art
After All These Years: Richard Van Buren’s Work of the ’70s
You never know when a work of art might become part of your DNA, the visceral memory of which you carry around with you, even if you seldom have occasion to think about it.
Music
Yoko Ono’s New Music and New Writings: It’s Her Universe, and Welcome to It!
Today, Ono is no longer, as Lennon quipped in the late 1960s, “the world's most famous unknown artist”; at the time, he added: “everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.”
Art
Self-Portraits in a Complex Mirror: The Photographs of Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier spent some forty years working as a nanny in Chicago. When she died in 2009 at the age of eighty-three, she left behind well over a hundred thousand photographic negatives, evidence of decades spent wandering the streets of her hometown, as well as others cities and locales around the w
Art
Paintings in the Interzone: More from the Corridors of MoMA
Last year I wrote an article called “What You Might Be Missing at MoMA,” which discussed the paintings exiled to the corridors of the Museum of Modern Art’s fourth and fifth floors.
Opinion
The Renaissance Lied to You Because Angels Don't Have Wings
Angels do not have wings, says a leading Catholic Church "angeologist." Cue gasps.
Performance
The Unremarkable Death of Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, as you may have heard, is dead. She has died at the age of 67 and is being celebrated at the Park Avenue Armory with a production by pioneering theater director Robert Wilson, called The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. She is also starring in the show, quite alive, alongside Wi
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Cariou v. Prince Isn't Over: Orgs Rep'ing 45,000 Creatives File Brief in Support of Cariou
Contrary to what we thought, the art law blog Clancco has found out that the infamous Cariou v. Prince copyright case is far from over. The organizations involved in this new "friend of the court" brief represent roughly 45,000 members and 100 companies in the fields of photography, the graphic arts
Art
Making Art in the Midwest
CHICAGO — The Midwest is no place for haters, slackers, and anyone who can't admit that they secretly love hot dogs and regularly daydream about living on a farm, or at least somewhere in the woods.
Opinion
Solid Gold: Serpentine's Julia Peyton-Jones Tells Us How to Spend It
In case you thought that serpentine was just a name, not a sensibility, Julia Peyton-Jones, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, has some stiff correctives for you.
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Lines for Kusama's Infinity Room Devolve Into Mobs Outside David Zwirner
Chaos has broken out in front of David Zwirner gallery on West 19th Street, where people have been lining up to see Yayoi Kusama's “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,” part of her exhibition that closes tomorrow, since 7 o'clock this morning. A long line has turned i
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Art Movements
London theater ceiling collapse, spacecraft coming to the New Museum, rare Van Gogh painting on display, a winner in the Picasso auction, and more recent art news.