‘Secret Signals’: The Otherworldly Photography of Christina Dallas

Filed Under: ArtApril 15, 2014 by Coral Silverman

Christina Dallas "Portrait of the Royal Family"

Bushwick’s Catland Books holds their first ever art show with haunting, symbol-laden photographs by artist Christina Dallas, AKA “Teen Angel”.

Art Review: Richard Renaldi’s Creepy and Unaffecting ‘Touching Strangers’

Filed Under: ArtApril 11, 2014 by Coral Silverman

Sonia, Zach, Raekwon, and Antonio, 2011, Tampa, FL from Touching Strangers (Aperture, May 2014) © Richard Renaldi

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.

HAMBURGER EYES Show and After Party-Friday, April 4

Filed Under: EventsApril 3, 2014 by Culture Crux

The San Francisco based photo magazine HAMBURGER EYES will mount a black and white photo exhibition at MUDDGUTS gallery in Brooklyn this Friday.

Mondays this April, The Hum, Manhattan Inn

Hypnocraft presents a Monday night residency dedicated to creating new music and video art, featuring first time collaborations across various genres with some of New York’s best musicians and video artists.

Music Review: Modest Mouse’s “Strangers to Ourselves”

Modest Mouse’s long-awaited sixth studio album interweaves the crudity of their early recordings and the polish of their recent work into a powerfully eccentric opus.

Music Review: of Montreal’s “Aureate Gloom”

Recorded in a span of three weeks after the divorce of its front man, Of Montreals’ thirteenth album safely stays within their previously charted sonic territory while often sliding into conceptual schizophrenia.

Battle of the Boroughs: Brooklyn-March 6 in The Greene Space

WNYC and WQXR’s Battle of Boroughs pits bands from each of the city’s boroughs against each other for a chance to compete in the final Ultimate Battle. One of our favorite Brooklyn bands, Teletextile will be one of the acts representing the fair county of Kings in the Battle’s Brooklyn edition.

Music Review: Father John Misty’s “I Love You, Honeybear”

Father John Misty’s sophomore release is a startling investigation into the possibility of love enduring in our contemporary, inhospitable social climate.