I heard a story that Frieze Director Amanda Sharp found Randall’s Island on Google Earth – the perfect location to introduce New York to the art wonderland she created with Matthew Slotover almost a decade ago in London. It was a clever move to have visitors leave the main island by ferry or school buses to [...]
Category Archives: Reviews
The Wild & The Innocent
April 11, 2012 – 8:00 am
When photographer Jordan Sullivan returned to New York City after spending 12 months in “middle-of-nowhere Texas,” working construction in the land of ranches and wide-open places, the urban setting proffered a profound jolt, placing him on a new path of artistic investigation. “I wanted to explore our relationship with nature at a time when I [...]
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
January 2, 2012 – 11:38 am
Tintin is a god to me. Surely this imaginary globetrotter seems real to most of us. He is also the most beloved of all comic-book heros worldwide – except in America, where he is inevitably confused with the dog, Rin Tin Tin - as well as the first literary boho “backpacker.” Too, Tintin’s second book, Tintin [...]
Jim Hodges at Gladstone Gallery
December 12, 2011 – 1:03 pm
The pieces in Jim Hodges’ show at Gladstone Gallery cast transient beams of light onto the walls and into your eyes. Each work considers and consists of bits of color and reflective materials (chips of mirrors, washes of metallic and spills of shine). Mirror Ball, on view at Gladstone’s 24 St. space, is the piece [...]
Torpedoed and Revived on Theater Row
November 21, 2011 – 5:44 pm
burn·ing adjective 1. aflame; on fire. 2. intense; passionate: a burning desire. noun the state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. Both the characters and the actors in Thomas Bradshaw’s newest, and most nuanced play to date, Burning, are aptly on fire. These people respond heatedly to [...]
WhaiWhai: The Pegleg
September 28, 2011 – 11:04 am
When I was in grade school, New York City was heralded as the world’s “melting pot,” an anthropomorphic melding of cultures. Today, word is that teachers have moved onto a “salad” analogy, arguing that while the various human ingredients harmoniously mix and mingle, they retain their separate identities. Whichever school you subscribe to, one of [...]
Beckoned In By Glenn Ligon’s Negro Sunshine
May 16, 2011 – 1:02 pm
Surface contains and carries valuable information in art. Glenn Ligon’s mid-career retrospective, titled America, is on exhibition another three weeks at the Whitney, and allows for an expanded view of his art practice through evaluation of his surfaces. The exhibition’s stark order and his works predominant absence of color heighten the surface’s importance in its contribution to the [...]
Whatever You Guess It’s Not
May 12, 2011 – 11:08 am
Angela Aux is really a man, the title of his new album (recently released on Red Can Records) is Whatever You Guess It’s Not, and the press info provided reads that the identity of the 27-year-old singer/songwriter/producer/younameit is pretty mysterious and that the album deals with the feeling of being lost in a forest of signs. All [...]
Thoughts on Mos Def’s “The Ecstatic”
May 14, 2010 – 12:03 pm
It’s been almost a year since Mos Def released his latest solo album “The Ecstatic” – a year in which a lot of other records have hit the market. Twelve months in which many new artists have appeared on the scene. 365 days in which the music industry has gone further down the drain. But unlike [...]
bobrauschenbergamerica
May 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm
The beginning of bobrauschenbergamerica opens with a giant American flag set and a cast of nine characters moving around, coming and going, re-arranging props, roller skating by flirtatiously, making eyes at one another, climbing in boxes and bath tubs- all preparing you for the ruckus ahead. I was struck by a voice-over that seemed to represent [...]
