Art
Falling in Love with a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Go-Go Dancer
During a recent visit to David Zwirner, I was transfixed by the dancer performing on a Gonzalez-Torres sculpture, so I decided to track him down.
Essays
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The Time Edward Albee Almost Bought My Painting
As a clichéd Gen X art student, I was too arrogant for my own good.
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The Spiritual Photographs Khadija Saye Left Behind
Khadija Saye's final photographs before her tragic death reveal misty self-portraits grounded in Gambian spirituality.
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Tehching Hsieh's Art of Passing Time
The artist's exhibition for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale shows how he has attempted to bring art into life.
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The North’s Role in Supplying the South with Confederate Monuments
Confederate monuments would not exist in such large numbers without mass production, which, in the wake of the Civil War, took place more often in the North than in the South.
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The Heroes and Villains of New York's Changing Cityscape
There once was a time when the resistance movements of New York pushed back against the regimenting, state-sponsored programs known as “urban renewal.”
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Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color
The equation of white marble with beauty is not an inherent truth of the universe; it's a dangerous construct that continues to influence white supremacist ideas today.
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Miley Cyrus and Her Minstrel Show
Miley Cyrus does not lend credibility to hip-hop, nor can she take it away.
Art
Behind the Masquerade of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
If asked to choose an opera in the category of “most satisfying,” I would choose Richard Strauss’s brilliant Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose, 1911).
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Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century
Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.
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The Untold Story of Rauschenberg’s Earliest Champion
Among the reigning patriarchs of the New York School, the young Rauschenberg found his greatest and earliest champion in the painter Jack Tworkov.
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Who's Afraid of White Fragility? Edward Albee
The late playwright's estate recently rescinded rights to his most famous play from a director who wanted to cast a black actor in his production.