Interview with Truth Seeker Nick Zedd
“Revolutionary change usually occurs first in the minds of artists.” An interview with legendary filmmaker and iconoclast Nick Zedd.
Read More...Opening Night of PEN World Voices Festival
The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night to a packed audience with an evening of provocative and stirring talks by world famous authors, including Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky and Sofi Oksanen. Held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the same venue Lincoln gave his famous “right makes might” anti-slavery address, one could sense some of the same momentous urgency in the air.
Read More...‘A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman’
Poets Bill Berskon and Ron Padgett have curated a lovely exhibition of the work of the artist George Schneeman now on view at Poets House in Battery Park. A friend to the curators, as well as many other notable New York City poets, “A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman” showcases 40 years worth of Schneeman’s paintings, collages, prints, and books, made in collaboration with his poet friends, as well as a large number of his portraits of them.
Read More...Music Review: EMA’s ‘The Future’s Void’
On her sophomore album, “The Future’s Void” EMA returns as an oracle from beyond the apocalypse of popular music.
Read More...Ai Weiwei: ‘According to What?’ at the Brooklyn Museum
A survey of the outspoken Chinese artist presents 20 years of his provocative work that blurs the line between art and activism.
Read More...‘Secret Signals’: The Otherworldly Photography of Christina Dallas
Bushwick’s Catland Books holds their first ever art show with haunting, symbol-laden photographs by artist Christina Dallas, AKA “Teen Angel”.
Read More...Art Review: Richard Renaldi’s Creepy and Unaffecting ‘Touching Strangers’
As a New Yorker forced to touch strangers almost anytime I find myself on the subway at rush hour, I find it hard to romanticize the premise behind Richard Renaldi’s “Touching Strangers” exhibition which opened last week at the Aperture Foundation Gallery in Chelsea.
Read More...Unsound Festival Review: Demdike Stare and Michael England’s Haunting ‘Concealed’
It was fitting that the Unsound Festival’s “The Long Tone” concert was held at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn on Friday, as the evening was more akin to a religious experience, a narcotic intoxication, or a sexual awakening, than a mere music show.
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Read More...Brucennial’s Swan Song
This year’s iconoclastic Brucennial is about to come to a close. The show, hosted by the anonymous art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation, provides, with over-saturated walls featuring art solely from female artists, a stark and refreshing contrast to the Whitney Biennial uptown. If you haven’t made it there yet, tomorrow will be your last chance.
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