Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (September 2013, Part 1)
This week, reviews of Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monaé, The Weeknd, and Neko Case.
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All Art Is Contemporary, Part 3: Florence
FLORENCE, Italy — Is there a more hallucinatory painter than Jacopo Carucci, more popularly known as Jacopo Pontormo?
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All Art Is Contemporary, Part 2: Arezzo
AREZZO, Italy — The organization of space. Its definition can be found under Piero della Francesca, whose frescoes depicting the Legend of the True Cross (1452–1466) are mind-bending excursions into the cumulative force of perspective, line, plane and pattern.
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A Pop-up Photo City on the Brooklyn Waterfront
Situated on the edge of Brooklyn, and overlooking the picturesque bouquet of buildings in lower Manhattan, Photoville is quickly becoming a must-see affair in the photography world.
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Enabling New Platforms for Poetry
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter has often been likened to haiku.
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Fishing for Flotsam in a Polluted River
STONE RIDGE, N. Y. — Michael Asbill, a socially engaged installation and public artist working in the Hudson Valley, has built "RAFT," a shanty-like shipwrecked vessel of last resort made entirely of flood debris foraged from the local banks of the Hudson River watershed.
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The Real Reason(s) Indians Are Obsessed with Switzerland
BERKELEY, Calif. — Alicia Eler’s recent Hyperallergic post “Searching for the Switzerland of India” raises a host of issues regarding the colonial legacies at play in modern India without dissecting any of them.
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Is All the Stuff at Art Fairs the Same-ish?
William Powhida's latest drawing, "A Subjective Classification of Things," is his latest screed against the sameness in an industry that prides itself on being different.
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Inside the Mind of Hans Ulrich Obrist
The celebrity curator may be a phenomenon on the rise, but before Klaus Biesenbach and Paola Antonelli, there was Hans Ulrich Obrist. Obrist, who's currently the co-director of exhibitions and programs and director of international programs at London's Serpentine Gallery, has a list of curatorial ac
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Art Movements
Fernand Léger goes on display at the Met, Andy Warhol Museum may be soon on the LES, Eli Broad offers free admission but no MOCA money, guilty plea in art forging case, America's most famous stamp goes on permanent display, and more...
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Folklore as Conceptual Kitsch
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Sin rodeos traces Betsabeé Romero’s practice and includes new works that reflect upon several artists from the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
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Resting in Pieces: The Scattered Fate of Closed Museums
As interests shift and funding dwindles, it can be hard to keep a museum open. And after a museum ends its run and its building is shuttered, what happens to the collections?