Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (May 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of tUnE-yArDs, Lykke Li, Pharrel Williams, and Rick Ross.
Music
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (April 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Young Money, Kid Cudi, Iggy Azalea, and Nancy Ajram.
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (April 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Karmin, Perfect Pussy, Sunkil Moon, and Todd Terje.
Art
One-Handed Instrument Competition Removes Barriers to Music
If you want to play an orchestral instrument and have a disability restricting play to one hand, there are currently no options. A competition underway organized by the One-Handed Musical Instrument Trust (OHMI) with Ars Electronica is striving to improve opportunities for those excluded from music.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (March 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Toni Braxton & Babyface, Foster the People, Schoolboy Q, and Real Estate.
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (March 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Beck, 2NE1, Eric Church, and St Vincent.
Art
Studio of Composer Charles Ives Preserved in Manhattan
Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have been reconstructed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights. The replica of the studio he used in the final 40 years of his life even has a light box mimicking the Redding, Connecticut, view
Art
A Rap Epic for the Enigmatic Toynbee Tiles
Tiles embedded in busy intersections around North and South America have been appearing for two decades. No one knows who their creator is, but the Toynbee tiles, as they're called, have been the subject of a 2011 documentary and extensive archiving and mapping of their locations. Now the cryptic ph
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Yeezus Christ Superstar
When Kanye West first released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010, his celebrity had reached its peak, or so we all thought. No album that year dominated as absolutely — critically, commercially, artistically, musically, culturally. Not only did it go platinum, but hip-hop intellectuals loved
Performance
Trading Stage for Warehouse, a New Organization Brings Opera to Brooklyn
The L train was out of order and the night was freezing, but that didn't stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini's La Bohème, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera.
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The Dense, Dark Tones of an Organ Mystic
Experimental musician Charlemagne Palestine performed last Thursday at Plymouth Church, presenting a vibrant evening of deep organ drones.
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Justin Bieber, Ideal Lover
The most remarkable moment of the Justin Bieber concert I saw July 20 at Boston's TD Garden occurred before the singer even showed up.