Category Archives: The Arts

There She Goes

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Lauren Cerand

In which Lauren Cerand compares the sublime opacity of an image to an auto-reply. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Arab Strap, beauty, Black and White and Things, Joseph Cornell, New Orleans, Robert Frank, Sagredo Bedroom, Setting for a Fairy Tale, The Americans | 2 Comments

The Stealth Fight Against Stupidity

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Janet Steen

In which Janet Steen dares to be smart — and shows us how. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Fence, Gene Hackman, Geoff Dyer, Georges Perec, Glee, Howard Zinn, Jennifer Egan, Noam Chomsky, Paul Auster, Susan Sontag, Terry Gross, The Literary Review, The Lowbrow Reader, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker | 15 Comments

Notes From Bovina: Hayhenge

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat judges hay-bale art with New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl and waxes rhapsodic about a place named Bovina. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Bovina New York, Farming Bovina, hayhenge, Jean Kormos, Mr ED, Peter Schjeldahl, steve burnett, Walter R Brooks | Leave a comment

Acid House, The Police Protest and The Politics of Dancing: Jeremy Deller’s London

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In London, police policed police. Not a mile away, the artist Jeremy Deller was, appropriately, having a career mini-retrospective. Jennifer Kabat was there. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | 28 Comments

Strip it Down

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Janet Steen

In which Janet Steen wants to kiss your simple declarative sentence. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Bob Dylan, Czeslaw Milosz John Barth, David Berman, Denis Johnson, Jonathan franzen, Madison Smartt Bell, minimalism, New York Observer, Tao Lin, Volvo 240 | Comments Off

Ennial Fever

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Jennifer Kabat visits the Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial — which happen at the same time — and tries to figure out what’s up with art today. A lot, it seems. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Amalia Pica, Danh Vo, Dawn Kasper, Deloitte & Touche, Forrest Bess, Hassan Khan, Jose Antonio Vega Macotella, Peter Schjeldahl, Pilvi Takala, Pratchaya Phinthong, Rayyane Tabet, The New Museum Triennial, The Whitney Biennial | Comments Off

Thomas Kinkade, Conceptual Genius. For Real.

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat likens Thomas Kinkade to Hirst, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Jeff Koons. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Deitch, Larry Gagosian, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Susan Orlean, Takashi Murakami, Thomas Cole, Thomas Kinkade | Comments Off