Performance
To Hades and Back, with a Wailing Jazz Score
Hadestown combines and retells two classical myths — that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of Persephone — through a sizzling New Orleans jazz score by Anaïs Mitchell.
Reviews
Art
An Artist Colors Over Our September 11 Wounds
The Life of Forms exhibition, now on view at Mary Boone gallery is a relatively standard summer show smorgasbord, but one artist who stands out to me is Doug Ashford.
Art
Rachel Whiteread's Concrete Cabin Awaits Discovery in the Governors Island Hills
British artist Rachel Whiteread and curator Tom Eccles discussed both the Unabomber and Henry David Thoreau's Walden in considering the form and isolation of the American cabin.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Kevin Young's ‘Jelly Roll’
So many poets out there.
Art
Better Days
In 1987, Joe Becker, Lee Collins, and Mark began investigating the possibilities of generating a Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) that would, among other things, enable a computer to encode, transmit, and translate one language into another.
Art
Fault Line
The first paragraph of Lev Manovich’s groundbreaking essay, “Database as Symbolic Form” (1999) came to mind about three minutes after I began pouring over the weird, wacky, wild and wooly stuff displayed under glass in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at the Hessel Museum of Art.
Books
Knowing Better: Brian Blanchfield's Essay Collection 'Proxies'
The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute.
Art
In Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The roots of art brut, as a field of research, may go back a century or more, effectively (if perhaps unwittingly) tracing the evolution of this unusual art genre in parallel with but separate from that of modern art.
Art
Contemplating Perfection and Imperfection at Dia:Beacon
A visit last weekend to Dia:Beacon, the vast repository of Minimalist art on the east bank of the Hudson River, brought home once more the complexities and contradictions of a movement whose goal was to be as plain as the nose on your face.
Art
Sin Like It’s the 16th Century in a Game that Remixes Renaissance Art
Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady's ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own image.
Books
A Compendium of Tiny Architecture, from Humorous to Humanitarian
Skyscrapers in Dubai, Zaha Hadid-designed stadiums, and Damien Hirst's private accommodations are impressive for their sheer size, but bigger isn't always better.
Art
In Ireland, a Biennial Examines the Vestiges of Empire
LIMERICK, Ireland — Still (the) Barbarians is the bold title for this year’s EVA International Biennial in Limerick.