Deitch Studios in Long Island City has resurrected one of Keith Haring’s most prolific series of paintings: The Ten Commandments. The installation was originally painted for Haring’s first solo museum show in Bordeaux in 1985, but this will be the first time the commandments have shown in the U.S. Haring’s interpretations of the commandments are [...]
Author Archives: Natalie Rodgers
Moon and Moon in Seven Acts
September 26, 2008 – 2:32 pm
Difficult to describe, Moon and Moon’s debut album VII Acts of an IronKing — out Nov. 1 on La Société Expéditionnaire records — is an operatic mix of spoken word and story-telling not to be overlooked. The sounds are chilling and epic, and the cast includes Stephonik Youth and seven-year-old Olivia Galarza, who narrates. Lead [...]
The Awesomeness of Tim and Eric
September 19, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, are two of the most progressive comedians to ever sing and dance on TV in a hamburger costume. Their long periods of uncomfortable silence, video glitching, super-surrealism, emotionlessness — and some of the best homemade costumes/props of all time — are [...]
Jonathan Meese at The Journal
September 13, 2008 – 4:07 pm
Zeitgeist in Brooklyn! I have long been obsessed with art that ever-so-slightly borders on the perverse. There is a thin line to walk in contemporary art when it comes to absurdity, and German artist Jonathan Meese walks that line. All you have to do to experience a cultural exorcism is get yourself to Williamsburg: He [...]
Wren and Alia Raza’s “Another 3 Women” @ NY Fashion Week
September 12, 2008 – 8:50 pm
Director Alia Raza, who has previously worked with Chloë Sevigny, Kim Gordon and Devendra Banhart, collaborated with Wren designer Melissa Coker to create a three-channel video installation for the Wren Spring ’09 presentation. The video, titled “Another 3 Women,” stars Karen Elson, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Sarah Sophie Flicker. Raza combined the dialogue from Robert Altman’s [...]
