Performance
In Rock Opera, Courtney Love Attains Nirvana
Courtney Love's rock opera duet with Todd Almond packed a small black box at the Here Art Center.
Reviews
Books
The Writings of a Passionate Painter
Pick up a survey of modern art, start scanning the 1930s, and you may come across a paragraph or two on the French painter Jean Hélion (1904–1987).
Art
A Miniature City Built on Unstable Coffee Grounds
Gabriela Salazar has built a small metropolis in a basement in Bushwick.
Art
The Designs of Dissent
LONDON — Two inflatable cobblestones, outsized and dully metallic, hang from the ceiling. It’s implicit: these are material agents of anarchy, the airborne heralds of revolution.
Performance
From Glitch Parties to Participatory Skipping, a Delirious Dance
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.
Books
An Out-of-Focus Look at Post-Photography
Tacking "post" onto a word is one of those art world tricks that's routinely wielded to great rhetorical effect, but has little denotative meaning. In much the same way, Robert Shore’s book featuring the term, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, jumps off the shelves with its punchy title bu
Art
Gillian Wearing's Masked Confessions
LOS ANGELES — In Gillian Wearing’s work, the artist serves as a conduit for other peoples' confessions while concealing her own subjectivity. In this exhibition, everyone becomes a stranger — both the visitors to the gallery and the people involved in making the work.
Performance
Hymns for a Poisoned World at the Prototype Festival
The third season of the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival opened ominously last week, with 31 young women dressed in black singing against the evil that can come with group control.
Art
Time Traveling with Jayson Musson and Dave Chappelle
"Maybe all you needed was a little hip-hop pizzazz," says Jamel (James III) in the first episode of artist Jayson Musson's new time travel comedy series, The Adventures of Jamel.
Art
The Embrace of a Tie-Dyed Utopia
There are hurdles to cross before getting to the rewards of Alan Shields: In Motion, in its last week at the Parrish Art Museum, and even then some may be eluded; those found, however, are sweet and sustaining.
Art
The Merits of Old Masters' B-Sides, at the Frick
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant mom
Art
In New Orleans, an Exhibition Shines on the Surface
NEW ORLEANS — Gather enough bling in one gallery and the concentration of visual stimuli will overwhelm the need for a clear or convincing curatorial framework.