Performance
Exploring Pain at the COIL Festival
Performance Space 122’s COIL Festival is one of a number of imaginative theater festivals to descend on New York City each winter.
Reviews
Art
Sculptures of Light and Illusion
SAN FRANCISCO — In Stereo, an exhibition of new works by Bay Area-artist Chris Fraser at Highlight Gallery, plays with the ways our eyes perceive space.
Art
Rediscovering the 1950s Art Scene of San Francisco
Back in the 1950s in the Bay Area, the center for creatives a little off the trail in experimental art was a Victorian house packed to its wooden walls with books. As the home of Jess and Robert Duncan, a couple where within their own relationship there was a constant collaboration between visual ar
Art
Imagined Books and Phantom Islands: Making Art from Cultural Castoffs
In the early days of motion pictures, when movies were shot in film, editors would physically review footage, handling, cutting, and taping together different sections. Innumerable snippets ended up on the cutting-room floor, discarded, never to be seen again. New York–based Polish artist Agnieszka
Art
Import, Export, Art, and Asia
SAN FRANCISCO — Import/Export, currently on show at the Asia Art Museum, looks at Asia's impact on our everyday lives.
Art
Hans Hofmann's Purple Modernism
In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. So it's exciting to watch Hans Hofmann play with purple and give it center stage in a pair of works on view right now at Ameringer McEnery Yohe.
Art
Big and Bold in Albany
ALBANY, New York — The Albany Institute of History and Art, which has just renovated its largest gallery, is marking the occasion with Big and Bold, a showcase of large-scale contemporary works from its permanent collection
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (January 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Shinee, Disclosure, Boards of Canada, Chvrches, and the Pet Shop Boys.
Art
Single Point Perspective: Dead Man Rising
Viewing the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY show currently at the Brooklyn Museum offers a test of emotional restraint as well as the inclination to aestheticize. If the number of images is daunting, the sum of human pain on display registers as a body blow.
Art
Undiscovered Territory: Will Horwitt's Objects in Space
In 1965, when Will Horwitt was 31, the world was opening up for him. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in sculpture, followed three years later by a Tiffany Purchase Grant. His work was beginning to attract the attention of heavyweight collectors and eventually it found its way into such major public c
Performance
Miguel Gutierrez's "myendlesslove" at Abrons Arts Center
Miguel Gutierrez’s “myendlesslove” is, as its title suggests, about love — but not just love in a classic, romantic sense. That is there, but in 50 minutes, Gutierrez also touches on love making (aka sex), love of self, and love of youth. He pulls all these themes out of a multi-faceted, if somewhat
Art
A Painter in His 80s, but Still in His Prime
Larry Poons’s recent paintings at Danese/Corey not only show him producing significant work as he approaches his eighties, but, unlike others of his age, Poons has refused to step gracefully behind his younger colleagues. He continues to work vigorously, and he has instinctively kept pace with paint