The four screens of Josh Melnick’s solo show at Art in General appear still, or almost still. His tightly framed portraits of train travelers slowly scan from cheek to cheek. A flash from a subway light behind a head seems everlasting. A blink seems momentous. And in this slowed realm we are invited to stare [...]
The performance group Lewis Forever has just begun their residency at the New Museum for the month of June, and the group, comprised of four siblings, is having their first happening tonight at the New Museum at 7pm.
This weekend, put on your power suit and head to LMCC open studios on Broadway and Water street. The 9-month residency is nearing its end, so the studios are brimming with the energy and artwork of the 21 visual artists and 8 writers accepted this year. It’s a pretty good mix of New York talent [...]
The piano zaps me faster than a microwave. It makes my heart melt instantly. Sunday night was one of those blissful New York spring evenings on the rooftop at Gavin Brown Enterprise. Hosted by the lovely Evas Arche und der Feminist, it was a light crowd, cheap drinks and elegant minimalist sculptures by Peter Kortmann. [...]
If you’re thinking, “that dude looks like he’s from the eighties,” it’s because the man you are watching perform is — but the song he is singing is not. Caroline Polachek, the lead singer of Chairlift, edited and re-shot the newest music video by fellow Brooklyn band Violens using purely vintage footage of George Michael. [...]
Here is the funeral song to the age of simplicity. White ghosts of ages past. White newspapers, stacked, on a front porch, the black ink smudging our fingertips. And the silver, no longer, of the silver screen. Here, today, is technicolor two thousand and nine. And as we wish away the romance of yesteryear, [...]
The SXSW blur of daytime drinking, sunburned shoulders and a renewed love for agave plants has finally come to an end. The highlight of the week was last night’s Viva Radio party at Club Deville, with Brooklyn bands Iran and Violens, as well as Warlocks, Ponytail and others. The neon lights against a backdrop [...]
There exists an undeniable link between the systems found in macrocosms and how they are mimicked, so handsomely, in microcosms. In his most recent exhibition, “Of Dark Matter and Gray Substance,” on view at Marion Scharmann gallery in Berlin, German artist Eno Henze has sought out a system to illustrate this symmetry and render the [...]
Behind closed doors, what nightly rituals are woman performing in
order to preserve and renew their fresh glowing faces? Are they being dunked in vats of butter? Being dabbled and plucked with needles and creams? And who is the informer whispering to girls as they reach maturation just what rubs and dips and lotions and potions [...]
American realist painter Andrew Wyeth passed away Friday morning. The youngest son of artist N.C. Wyeth’s five children, Andrew was a loner whose melancholic landscapes and portraits provoked a radical separation in his following. In 1977, he was nominated as the most underrated, and overrated, artists of his century. Such a division in popularity is [...]
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