Art Review
The Morgan Museum’s Kafka Show Is … Kafkaesque
In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach.
Franz Kafka
Art
Happy Public Domain Day! Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Is Copyright Free
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photojournalism, Jamini Roy's stylized portraiture, and M. C. Escher's print works have also become accessible to all.
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Happy Public Domain Day! Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Is Copyright Free
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photojournalism, Jamini Roy's stylized portraiture, and M. C. Escher's print works have also become accessible to all.
Art
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Love Songs of Franz Kafka
How did a sharply dressed insurance agent with a desultory love life, who preferred brothels to relationships, who held crappy middle management jobs before retiring early due to poor health, become, as his one-time lover Milena Jesenská puts it, a “clairvoyant” storyteller, let alone one with a sti
Performance
Transforming the Beauty of Ballet into Something Kafkaesque
The story of a man who wakes up transformed into a hideous insect isn't exactly the showpiece you would imagine for a lithe principal of London's Royal Ballet, but in The Metamorphosis dancer Edward Watson takes all the refined control of each muscle and transforms his body from grace into an image
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Single Point Perspective: Kafka's Object and Its Objectives
There is a rather large and forbidding object currently on display on the second floor of the New Museum. More than 9 ½ feet tall and 6 ½ feet wide, it is made up of two sections: an upper level composed of three cabinet doors, one of which is open to expose a set of gearwheels, and a mattress with
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Underpaid Labor at the Art Show
My friend was trying to convince me the other day that $20 was not an unreasonable amount for a museum to ask visitors to pay. We were standing in the lobby of the Whitney shortly after the Biennial had opened, and maybe I was having none of it simply because I was feeling snarky while remembering p
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Ungeziefer: Kafka at the Whitney Biennial
I'm trying to sleep at the Whitney. I rest on a white pillow, a white bath towel covering me. On my head I wear a plastic grocery store bag, the handles tied under my chin, two rubber bands on either side of my head cinching the plastic into a pair of ears. I'm supposed to be a mouse.