By Foster Kamer 5/31/12 1:29pm

THE HIPPING POINT

rockaway beach

Rockaway Beach: The Page Six Bureau (and What It Means For You)

Rockaway Beach: A well-established Hipster Hamptons of sorts for the last few years, a place many thought would hit fever-pitch sometime this summer, the moment when—like Williamsburg and Bushwick and Red Hook and hell, the rest of the entire borough of Brooklyn before it—well-heeled Manhattanites discover it, and then, ruin the fun for those who were ostensibly there “first.”*

First came The Taco Stand.

Then, the Trend Pieces.

Then, The Hoteliers.

And now: The Page Six Item.  Read More

By Elise Knutsen 5/02/12 11:31am

Shindigger

BOMB Magazine 31th Anniversary Gala

BOMB’s the Way: The Art and Culture Magazine Throws its Annual Gala

“Everyone is wearing black,” a reveler remarked at the BOMB magazine gala. “There is still a downtown!”

Truly, the band of bon chic bon genre artists, patrons and gallerists assembled at Capitale Monday evening all appeared in shades of sable. Black jackets, black cocktail dresses, black eye-liner and black ties streamed into the room, punctuated by wan, porcelain faces. The group’s chatter  soon reached a dull roar, and guests did their best to shout and drawl simultaneously. “I don’t really think they’re crypto-fascists, do you?” someone asked. We did not catch the subject of her inquiry.

Christened in 1981, BOMB magazine has enjoyed three decades of blessings from artists of both wide and marginal renown, the art world’s papal personae and choir-boys alike. While the full spectrum of BOMB devotees appeared at the gala, the vast majority were noteworthy members of the contemporary art scene. Marina Abramovic, Klaus Biesenbach, Dorothy Lichtenstein and Tim Nye all greeted their coal-clad friends and enjoyed the array of comfort-food canapés. Read More

By Dan Duray 7/25/11 2:05pm

high drama

beckett

Klaus’s Last Drape

On Friday, Curbed re-blogged an item from W that detailed Klaus Biesenbach’s living situation. They paraphrased the introductory anecdote from that piece in which “the curator once stripped his Mexico City hotel room of the telephone, TV remote, even the curtains, keeping them stacked neatly in the closet until he departed.” We believe the Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/12/11 7:17pm

Art

Is Lady Gaga performer--or performance artist? (Getty Images)

Is Lady Gaga a Performance Artist?

The name of the exhibition says it all: “David Bowie, Artist.” The Museum of Arts and Design’s upcoming retrospective intends to demonstrate how Mr. Bowie’s work “has become the blueprint for contemporary artists working in performance.”

What does it mean for a contemporary recording artist to “work in performance”? Consider a star who has absorbed Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/12/11 7:01am

Art

Lady Gaga, performer or performance artist? (Getty Images)

Is Lady Gaga a Performance Artist?

The name of the exhibition says it all: “David Bowie, Artist.” The Museum of Arts and Design’s upcoming retrospective intends to demonstrate how Mr. Bowie’s work “has become the blueprint for contemporary artists working in performance.”

What does it mean for a contemporary recording artist to “work in performance”? Consider a star who has absorbed Read More

By Alexandra Peers 3/17/10 1:06am

Lights Out at P.S. 1

For a performer, having someone pull the plug on your show isn’t usually a career-maker. Not so for Ann Liv Young, 29, who became an art-world celebrity two weeks ago when P.S.1 director Klaus Biesenbach ordered the electricity shut off during her performance piece there. Was Mr. Biesenbach’s move to silence her sense—or censorship? Ms. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 2/24/10 1:42pm

New Blood for P.S.1′s Board of Directors

Five months into Klaus Biesenbach’s directorship of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the board of directors that will take the Museum of Modern Art’s kunsthalle in Queens into the post–Alanna Heiss era is taking shape. P.S.1 board chair and former MoMA president Agnes Gund told The Observer that newly appointed members of the board include Read More

By Staff, Staff 12:00am

Letters

Closure on Cloture

To the Editor:

I had to laugh out loud when I read Steve Kornacki’s article on the Senate maneuverings over the Iraq War debate [“Republican Senators Deepen a Hole for 2008,” Wise Guys, Feb. 12]. It’s hard to imagine that someone would think to criticize another, when they themselves are completely misinformed Read More