Art
The Experimental Eclecticism of Ed Moses
His daring embrace of an anti-style approach opened up new potential for abstract painting.
Review
Books
Reader’s Diary: George Seferis's ‘Six Nights on the Acropolis’
George Seferis's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
Art
The Beauty of Absent Bodies
Whoever thought that Carl Andre’s joyless, hug-the-floor sculpture was the logical culmination of Brancusi got it wrong. This kind of thinking strikes me as macho, competitive, and prescriptive.
Art
Kenji Fujita's Vernacular of Accumulation
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our “rhizome”-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
Performance
Downtown Tyrant: Romeo Castellucci's Julius Caesar in New York
Long a darling of the European festival circuit, Romeo Castellucci and his Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have since the 1980s presented a visually driven, philosophical theater, often with classical references and the provocative presence of animals and the animality of humans.
Art
What We Are Asked to See
We may choose to partake of the comfort that Sarah McEneaney’s scenes of domestic tranquility have to offer. Or we may choose to probe deeper.
Art
The Eternal Returns of Richard Pousette-Dart
In a socially boisterous art world inspired by Existentialism, jazz, and booze, Richard Pousette-Dart preferred introversion, secular spiritualism, and depth psychology.
Art
Hand-Colored Photos of Religion in Meiji-Era Japan
A small exhibition at Resobox gallery in Queens offers a glimpse of spiritual activity from the past.
Film
Dancing Rodin’s Sensual Poses
PARIS — Dance that pushes sensual and temporal boundaries and sculpture that pushes formal boundaries share a solid connection while simultaneously remaining, in many respects, in distinct opposition.
Art
The Fleeting Pleasure of Frieze Masters, Where Old Treasures Go to Change Hands
Originally conceived as an offshoot of the uber-fashionable Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Masters has become a major draw in itself.
Performance
An Epic Sanskrit Poem, Distilled and Defanged for the Stage
When the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater (then the BAM Majestic Theater) opened in 1987, lauded director Peter Brook staged his production of Jean-Claude Carrière’s Le Mahabharata, itself based on the gargantuan Indian epic.
Art
A Good Girl Gone Bad Sketches Her Korean American Experience
In the age of social media, most have at least dabbled in public self-documentation of their personal lives, though few dare to be as openly unflattering — and deeply revealing — as Kyung Me.