Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the fallout from the Charlie Hebdo massacre dominated the news, while artist Tania Bruguera talks about her detention in Cuba, questions are raised about John Elderfield's conflict of interest, and more.
Weekend
Opinion
Weekend Words: Police
This week, it came to light that the tensions between the New York City police force and Mayor Bill de Blasio may be resulting in fewer arrest and virtually no tickets.
Poetry
Nicholas Moore, Touched by Poetic Genius
Twenty-five years ago, Anthony Rudolf said it best in his “Preface” to the second edition of Nicholas Moore’s Spleen (1990): “The neglect of Nicholas Moore, a complex, many-sided, mysterious and disturbing poet is, well, a complex, many-sided, mysterious and disturbing phenomenon.”
Opinion
Weekend Words: Extra
It's been an extra-chilly week in New York, just the time for an Extra Edition of Weekend Words.
Art
The Problem of the Overlooked Female Artist: An Argument for Enlivening a Stale Model of Discussion
Very recently I was told that a certain art magazine editor, who had deleted the feminist critique from a review I had written, “can only take so much feminism.”
Art
Donna Sharrett’s Art of History, Remembrance and Time
Donna Sharrett’s work is both emblematic of its time and difficult to classify.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, photographing the oldest trees on earth, considering Cuban freedom, gay tours of the Vatican, the art world's patron "Satan," death of the artist (again), making the internet more global, autotuning John Cage, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Fifteen
All best wishes for 2015.
Books
Anselm Berrigan’s Ambivalence about Words
I am going to start with a “Note for poems” that Anselm Berrigan wrote about his most recent book, Pregrets.
Books
Language Lessons: The Poetry of Bob Brown
In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, hinting at the wealth of visual poems the man had created and describing his writing, based mostly on
Art
“George,” the Maciunas Film: An Emerging Portrait of an Influential Enigma
The Lithuanian-born, New York-based American artist, graphic designer, architect, urban-housing activist, and art-culture-and-society visionary George Maciunas (1931–1978) is best remembered as the conceiver and self-appointed leader of Fluxus.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, New York's creative soul, social media sell-out, KFC in Japan, bad architecture, dressing the same around the world, web 3.0, and more.