Talk To Me: Flarf vs Conceptual Writing
There is still an American Avant-Garde in poetry!As part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Whitney Museum, poet Kenneth Goldsmith organized a panel of eight poets associated with...
View ArticleI Wanna Wake Up In a Museum That Never Sleeps
There are a lot of places that you could find yourself in New York City at one o'clock in the morning. A museum isn't generally one of them.But there I was on Wednesday night (or was it Thursday...
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Gig Alerts: High Places
High Places"Can't Feel Nothing (HP Remix)"Playing FRIDAY at: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave., U.E.S.)Get: Tickets FREE (with museum admission) | DirectionsMary Pearson and Rob Barber...
View ArticleNo Cover: Toro Y Moi
Glo-fi tunesmith Toro Y Moi plugged-in for The Whitney Live concert series on July 2. You can stream the entire set right here.Before You Press PlayHometown: Columbia, South CarolinaThe Facts: Toro Y...
View ArticleElliott Sharp and Dither Want Audience Participation, in Chalk
The ever-provocative guitarist/saxophonist/composer Elliott Sharp teams up with the New York-based Dither guitar quartet to perform at the Whitney Museum on Friday night August 13 at 7 p.m. They will...
View ArticleDatebook: Aug. 12, 2010
A summer group show in Chelsea lampoons our obsession with youth, torture memos inspire an installation at The Whitney, artists play with metal building blocks in SoHo, and a Weimar-era painter gets a...
View ArticleElliott Sharp and Dither Quartet
Elliott Sharp and Dither performing Graffiti Composition by Christian Marclay:On Friday, August 13, Q2 asked New York's community of adventurous music lovers to react to -- and document via Q2's...
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Gig Alert: DJ /rupture
Matty G, DJ /rupture and Lloop"Layin in Bed/Overture Watermelon City" (feat. Elizabeth Alexander)Playing FRIDAY at: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave., U.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Free with...
View ArticleDatebook: Sep. 2, 2010
Road trip pictures at the Whitney, propaganda at MoMA, and a monochrome wall of commissioned graffiti in downtown Manhattan. This week's Datebook is a guide to Labor Day weekend artsiness.Lee...
View ArticleChristian Marclay: Festival
On Sunday, September 19 at 2 p.m., Cued Up on Q2 launches its Fall Season with performances from the Whitney Museum's Christian Marclay: Festival, a retrospective for the iconoclastic turntablist,...
View ArticleThis Week: Must See Arts in the City
Edward Hopper at the Whitney, ghostly silhouettes in Chelsea, and dance at the Judson Memorial Church. Here's WNYC's guide to what's happening now.Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, at the...
View ArticleAt the Whitney: It's a Small World
A pair of men's briefs barely bigger than a silver dollar. Racks of suits barely two feet tall. Vitrines full of thousands of handmade ceramics—none of them bigger than a thimble.In a wonderfully...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
An exhibit that explores the art of painting and identity at the Whitney, extraordinary pre-Columbian tunics at the Met, quirky illustrations at the Jewish Museum and a temporary installation at an...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The Whitney Museum takes a trip back to the early 20th century, Willem de Kooning's figures go on view at Pace, a British street art gets a solo in Brooklyn and an unheralded African-American landscape...
View ArticleMuseums on the Move
New York Times cultural reporter Robin Pogrebin discusses the plans for MOMA to take over the midtown Folk Art Museum space and for the Met to take over the Whitney's Madison Ave building.
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Hacked video games and remixed Internet videos at the Whitney, topless human-animal dancers at Jonathan Levine, a look at life in Cuba at Marlborough and some '60s comix psychedelia at Andrew Edlin....
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The New York photographs of an important Chinese artist and critic, the caricatures and paintings of a German-American polymath and lots and lots of mosh pits -- not to mention a 600-lb. squid. It's...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Dancing on ladders in the Meatpacking District, more than half a century of urban redevelopment at MoMA, European artists showing naughty bits on the Lower East Side and architectural sculpture meets...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
David Smith cubes and art works that explore the boundary between the real and the imagined at the Whitney, psychedelic paintings that incorporate the human figure at Dodge Gallery, Edward Sorel's...
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Sherrie Levine's 'Mayhem': A Retrospective of The Original Fake at The Whitney
What is "original" and "unoriginal" art? Does an art object only qualify as authentic if it’s made by the human hand? Does the context in which one sees an image change its meaning? Why is a photograph...
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