What better setting for a reading of a postapocalyptic sci-fi novel in which children are cleaved from their parents than the New Museum? The place looks like the monolith from the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey with a hint of the Death Star, and we’ve certainly never seen a child there. We’re so excited Read More
“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party last night to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, Mental States, which opens today at The New Museum. Condo is known for painting his subjects as wild-eyed gaping clown Read More
Starting next month, New Museum visitors will no longer be greeted by a resounding “Hell Yes!” when approaching 235 Bowery. Ugo Rondinone’s enthusiastic rainbow sculpture, which has been an emblem of the LES institution since the building opened in 2007, will soon be replaced by Isa Genzken’s Rose II.
The museum will begin preparations for Read More
On the fourth floor of “The Last Newspaper,” the New Museum’s tribute and elegy to the news business, old papers are stacked into a corner and bound with string. The piles, by artist Robert Gober, are made to resemble bundles headed to recycling. The New York Times is represented, as, I thought, was The Observer. Read More
Museum eateries are, by and large, airy, pretty, tasty-and exceptionally well air-conditioned. New York boasts many, a handful of which are much less well known for their culinary accomplishments than they deserve to be. Here’s a few, along with a look at what’s on view before or after the meal.
The Neue Read More
