Hypergraph Fortress A concrete giant tied down on top of a blanketed cabinet of has-been and lest-we-remember. Deliberately blinded. Senses heightened through loss of others. Located far from eye, far from heart. Invisible through the trees, exposed to icy winds, bitten by frost. Mutilated and crippled, limbs removed. The limits of reduction pushed to extremes. [...]
Category Archives: Art
Roses are Red
March 9, 2011 – 10:18 am
Just as the weather starts to warm up a little, I am reminded of all of the things I love about Spring. New York City in the springtime is truly an amazing place, as everybody crawls out from their respective rocks they have been hiding under the whole winter and greets the world with happy [...]
Let Me Entertain You
February 15, 2011 – 10:00 am
The very famous, very cute porn star Sasha Grey, who has worked with mainstream director Steven Soderbergh and appeared on Entourage, is publishing a book of her personal photographs called Neu Sex. Grey is well known for giving frank interviews answering all sorts of crazy questions, so a book of behind-the-scenes images seems natural. At [...]
Dirty Baby Trialogue
November 1, 2010 – 11:53 am
When you mate sounds, poems and pretty pictures, the result is Dirty Baby, a new release by Delmonico Books/Prestel . The publication is more of a multi-media sensory explosion than a book. The collaboration brings together sixty-six paintings from artist Ed Ruscha’s rarely seen bodies of work incorporating censor strips, sounds from composer and Wilco [...]
Exit/Entrance
September 17, 2010 – 6:08 am
“There are lives going on all around us,” remarks Younger Helen, the unknowing sage of Aidan Mathews’s Exit/Entrance. Like little spheres, lives go orbiting about their separate, solo courses. Although they do bump into each other on occasion, they are hasty to forget one simple truth: we are not alone. Take, for example, an apartment [...]
Absolution
September 13, 2010 – 10:02 am
Jesus was a man of words. “He said he would save the world,” laments the main character of the play Absoultion. He promised. Believers say he sacrificed his life for the sins of his people—but was he a man of action? Where was Jesus when Father McClennan raped 7-year-old Nathan O’Lone? Nathan didn’t see him. [...]
