Along with every other blogger in the city and several thousands of bottles of Poland Spring, we went to Sunday’s “Rally Against Ratner’s Skyscraper City” at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn.
The speakers all talked about what a diverse group the opposition was. And so it was.
The rally started Read More
Supernatural gifts—like communicating with the dead or powers of prophecy—aren’t typically associated with art critics. If that were the case, we could venture into more lucrative professions—real estate, say, or palm reading. Still, I feel confident divining the response of Marcel Duchamp, the grand père of anti-art, who died almost 40 years ago, to the Read More
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky , unexpurgated edition translated from the Russian by Kyril Fitzlyon, edited by Joan Acocella. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 312 pages, $30.
Psychiatry has been so demeaning when it has sought to classify those people who have suffered most acutely throughout their lives from spurious classification: At its best, it misrecognizes Read More
