The MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architecture Program has become a kingmaker of sorts for young architects in the city and beyond. Now in its 12th year, the program has returned to Brooklyn to select its new architectural royalty, suggesting yet again that all the city’s creative types have indeed left Manhattan for fairer (and Read More
The week sure started strong.
The Journal‘s cheekily named new section — “Greater New York,” that’s some kind of pun, no? — arrived on Monday, followed on Tuesday by a hotly-anticipated Senate appearance for Lloyd Blankfein, Fabulous Fab, and the rest of the Goldman gang. Both were, to be honest, a bit of Read More
“Did I make mistakes? We all did, yeah,” said Neville Wakefield, the 47-year-old curator of contemporary art. “I spent too much time looking at things that were ultimately not very interesting. Few people make good choices in a feeding frenzy.”
Mr. Wakefield, a curatorial advisor at P.S.1/MoMA, was talking about the art world of the Read More
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
MoMA and P.S. 1 have chosen SO-IL Solid Objects Idenburg Liu, the husband-wife team of Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, as the winners of this year’s Young Architects Program. Plans are being unveiled officially today for their proposed structure, which is called Pole Dance.
Pole Dance consists of narrow fiberglass poles 25 feet high that Read More
In 1969, the artist Bruce Nauman made Pacing Upside Down, a 56-minute single-frame film of the artist crazily astride his California studio: a portrait of the artist as a convict in his cage. It was an extreme act of art that became foundational—inaugurating a shift in style from American abstract painting and Pop to post-Minimalism, Read More
