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Title and Deed at Signature Theatre Review
As I was exiting the theatre after an evening performance of Will Eno’s new play Title and Deed, a woman turned to her companion and said, somewhat wearily, "well, it’s about words." While I generally ...
Charta Books Turns 20
Giuseppe Liverani is a charming and spirited entrepreneur who reinvented art books through his distinguished editorial project called Charta. When exploring possible names for their enterprise, Liverani’s partner and co-founder Silvia Palombi suggested “Carta,” ...
Compulsion: Alex Prager at Yancey Richardson
Photographer Alex Prager has both a passion for cinema and a fascination with crime. Compulsion, the title of Prager’s new body of work on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery, seemingly alludes to Meyer Levin’s ...
Enrico Pedrini: The Caffeine of Europe
We were driving in Enrico's car through the Lombard countryside past Arborio rice fields. After a day in Milan visiting assorted venues of contemporary art, we were making our way back to Pavia, near ...
Enrico Pedrini: The Pharmacist from Genoa (A Letter)
Dear Gianmaria, This morning I received from Daniel Rothbart, a mutual friend of mine and your father’s, a very moving email informing me of his passing. I was devastated and profoundly saddened by the news. And ...
2012 Edition of Red Dot New York Cancelled - Updated
The 2012 Edition of the Red Dot, New York art fair which was to held from May 3 through May 6 at 82 Mercer Street in Soho, has been cancelled. In a recent email sent ...
Excerpts from Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile
Excerpted from Julia Ain-Krupa’s Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile, Praeger, 2009, for more information visit, www.abc-clio.com
BERNIE: A Film by Richard Linklater
With his second film, SLACKER, Richard Linklater named - or, inadvertently, stereotyped - the generation that came of age in the early '90s. His film had a cultural impact far beyond the relatively small number ...
Private Museum Buyer Spends Big During Chinese Art Shopping Spree
If you haven't heard of the Chinese-Indonesian collector Budi Tek then you soon will. Recently identified as the 8th most powerful art world personality by Art+Auction magazine, Mr Tek owns a private museum in Jakarta ...
TAMARA MASEL: APPEARANCE
A P P E A R A N C E, Tamara Masel's exhibition of photography, perceives ephemeral events which may never have occurred, but that nonetheless seem to linger. A diptych of lighted candles and ...
I Am a Berliner at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Berlin, like Paris or New York, is a city whose symbolic image is an entity in its own right. Since the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall, the liberal capital of the short-lived Weimar Republic ...
John Chamberlain Choices at the Guggenheim
John Chamberlain was a magician of crushed, folded, rolled and scalloped steel. He fashioned forms that could be sharp and cutting while at other times as soft as drapery on a figure or the waves ...
Johannes Kahrs at Luhring Augustine
Johannes Kahrs is presenting a show of intensely physical paintings tinged with violence and sex. A painter of real skill, Kahrs works with images taken from a broad range of sources: magazines, newspapers, films, advertisements, ...
Luisa Lambri at Luhring Augustine
Certain Variables, the title of Italian photographers', Luisa Lambri's show, refers to those elements of change that transform the experience of the Southern California houses the artist takes images of.
Anthony Caro
Critic and poet Jonathan Goodman examines Anthony Caro's sculpture on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Influenced by both Henry Moore and David Smith, Caro's work synthesizes British and American sculpture to create ...
Bill Cunningham New York
Writer and curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld reviews Richard Press’s film on New York Times’ photographer, Bill Cunningham.
Rohini Devasher
New Delhi-based Rohini Devasher's second solo exhibition Permutation on view at the Gallery Nature Morte bears testimony to her unique style, medium and subject matter in the landscape of contemporary Indian art.
Marjetica Potrc, In a New Land, Berlin
Potrc's work is intended to be educational for the viewer; each case study is a visual interpretation of the artist's investigation of contemporary building strategies
Mark di Suvero
For an artist just shy of 80 years old, Mark di Suvero's output is impressive both in scale and number. With their I-beams and knots of cut plates, these enormous rusted and red-painted steel structures ...
John Perreault: Protests and Beauty
Honoré de Balzac poisoned his body with demitasse after nocturnal demitasse of coffee while Victor Hugo used coffee infusions to create delicate sepia tone drawings.
Nan Goldin: Scopophilia
Critic, poet and artist Valery Oisteanu explores Scopophilia, Nan Goldin's ambitious multimedia work commissioned by the Musée du Louvre. Scopophilia translates to "the love of looking" and contains more than 400 photographs culled from the ...
Ai Weiwei Review by Jonathan Goodman
Critic Jonathan Goodman explores the artist-activism of Ai Wei Wei, whose bold, street photographs of New York City capture a period of tumult an change.
Cory Arcangel at Whitney
Cory Arcangel’s “Pro Tools”, an ambitious though uneven grand tour of consumer video games and other technology-generated or centered works of art.
Ceal Floyer
Floyer pushes starkly minimalist Chelsea white box gallery to the limit, placing but four installation elements into the large gallery.
Interview with Marissa Soroudi
Marissa Soroudi is an artist who immerses herself in foreign environments and, much like an anthropologist, studies them. Artworks have taken her from the canopies of tropical trees in Vanuatu to life among cannibal Pacific ...
The Fourth Dimension: An Interview With BabySkinGlove
On Friday, December 16, fifteen members of the notorious Brooklyn-based performance collective BabySkinGlove crowded Daniel Rothbart's Midtown ARTERY office. Den mother Bailey Catherine Dorothea Edith Nolan lit a protective candle of Saint Clare of ...
Interview With Lawrence Joseph
American poet Lawrence Joseph speaks with Daniel Rothbart about his life, work and most recent book of poems Into It, published by Farrar Straus and Giroux.
Alanna Heiss: The Definitive Interview (Part 1)
I come from a family of musicians. My uncle was a composer who eventually became the Head of Composition at Julliard here in New York. He was one of two people who ran a fantastic ...
Alanna Heiss: The Definitive Interview (Part 2)
I was living in London during the time that Radio Caroline became a beacon, not a virtual beacon but an absolute beacon, a real beacon / sound vehicle for untrammeled popular music. Since I left ...
A Conversation With Barbara Rachko
Artist Barbara Rachko shares her perspective on studio practice, photography, personal loss and the creative inspiration she found in Mexican folklore.
Interview: Inside The Mosh Pit With Vicky Allen Hanks
In the New York metropolitan art mosh pit, it's hard being green and also a vegetarian, animal-rights activist, buyer-planner, conservationist and an artist. Vicky Allen Hanks even has to work for a living since she ...
Peggy Cyphers: A Studio Conversation with Robert G. Edelman
I was very influenced at the time by the Miocene fossils that I was finding on the beach in Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, where I pretty much spent my summers. A lot of those forms ...
An Interview with Ngak’chang Rinpoche
Tchera Niyego: Can you tell me about your autobiography? Ngak'chang Rinpoche: an odd boy is a four-volume . . . memoire of a period in my life from 1957 to 1975. Volume I—the crossroads—was published in ...
Interview with Richard Humann
Artist Richard Humann discusses his rich and complex oeuvre with Daniel Rothbart.
