Rock Star
On the morning of Monday, Oct. 3, amid the usual Astor Place cacophony of whizzes, hums, clanks, beeps and shouts, a truck carrying six men and five very heavy and very Zen boxes pulled up to the converted Carl Fischer building on Cooper Square. The men schlepped the goods upstairs into an astonishing Read More
With certain exhibitions, this writer finds himself in a position not so much to “review” them as to recall his previous critical encounters with an oeuvre to which he paid close attention in the halcyon years of the artist’s production. This is the case with the large retrospective exhibition that Ruth Fine and her colleagues Read More
On a recent visit to California, I had my first look at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-the first, that is, since the museum acquired a building of its own (designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta in 1995) and went on a widely reported spending spree to load up on the work of celebrity Read More
Well, hip-hop isn’t dead. It hasn’t gone the way of rockabilly or prog-rock. Yet. Despite an ecstatic engagement with a culture industry that shows off Puffy Combs on the New York Post ‘s Page Six while disregarding esthetic responsibility, the genre has been on life support for the last couple of years–just like rock back Read More
