Art
Playing with Time on a Gilded Age Piano
George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City's Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
Music
Music
Vince Staples, Fierce Minimalist
Vince Staples’s Summertime ‘06 is the hardest album to hit the rap game in a decade, maybe more.
Music
David Bowie, Prettiest Star
David Bowie was a legendary art hero, a hot tramp and an honorary young American and a true somebody person. He was a gifted actor who injected every role he played with flamboyant electricity, and he was always playing a role.
Music
Harsh Ambient Arca
Arca is a pseudonym for Alejandro Ghersi, a Venezuelan DJ/producer based in New York. He specializes in eerie, glitchy, electronic instrumentals that confound ordinary electronica categories.
Books
Heavy Metal Headbangers Frozen in Time
With hair flying and faces contorted in expressions between joy and agony, the heavy metal fans captured by Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn are a frenzy of movement in saturated color.
Music
The Portrait of Karen Carpenter
The Carpenters’ Christmas Portrait is, far and away, without a doubt, quite simply the greatest Christmas album ever recorded.
Music
Carly Rae Jepsen, Antipersona
Carly Rae Jepsen is the emptiest pop diva to have released an album this year, and that’s not an insult.
Music
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bach but Were Afraid to Ask Marina Abramović
We are too distracted, too stressed out to listen to music properly. That’s the idea behind Goldberg, the music concert/installation/participatory performance art piece currently at the Park Avenue Armory.
Music
Grimes, Self-Conscious Art Angel
Put on the new Grimes album and prepare for 50 minutes of squeal.
Performance
Dancing Around the Issue of Surveillance
Audiences entering the black box space of BAM Fisher in Brooklyn for More up a Tree found a transparent room containing a man sprawled on his back, and a woman nervously pacing.
Music
Beach House Lullaby
The latest two albums from Beach House, 'Depression Cherry' and 'Thank Your Lucky Stars,' were released this year less than two months apart, and good luck trying to distinguish one from the other.
Music
Long Road Outta Compton
Dr. Dre has been coasting on myth for so long that the success of his new album comes as a genuine surprise.