At the same time a number of Chelsea galleries closed their doors due to contractions in the art market and larger economy, Williamsburg's Pierogi... More >>
The Whitney Biennial could not have come at a worse time. Rarely has the nation—never mind the art world—lolled around in such a... More >>
Judy Chicago's artful Red Flag—the infamous photograph of her hand removing a saturated tampon—remains as fierce a declaration of... More >>
If you left one of Louise Nevelson's ominous sculptures in a forest for several years, you might end up with something resembling Leonardo Drew's... More >>
Let's talk about the art world's paradoxical discomfort with objects. I say "paradoxical" because that's what artists historically did: make... More >>
Back in the time of cathode-ray tubes, video art was the province of the boring, the grainily obscure, and the documentary. Then came certain... More >>
Brian Conley: 'Miniature War in Iraq . . . and Now Afghanistan'
At the same time a number of Chelsea galleries closed their doors due to contractions in the art market and larger economy, Williamsburg's Pierogi was adding a second location. Dubbed… More >>
Paul Taylor, The Beloved Renegade
Paul Taylor's turning 80 this year, but more impressive is the fact that in the 56 years since he started a company, he has choreographed more than 130 works. Eighteen… More >>
Equivocation and The Tempest Show a Weak Will; The Miracle Worker Works No Wonders
Even in Shakespeare's own time, people idolized him. Otherwise his colleague Ben Jonson would never have bothered to say, after Shakespeare's death, that he loved the man as well as… More >>
The Duchess of Malfi and A Behanding in Spokane
"I know death hath ten thousand several doors," says the Duchess of Malfi, "for men to take their exits." For 2,400 years, the theater has thrown those doors wide open, providing… More >>
Koosil-ja and David Neumann Think We’re as Smart as They Are
Some people worry quite a lot about the meaning of dances. Perhaps they think, “There are human beings like me (well not quite like me) on stage, so they must… More >>
Three Pianos, Antidote to Winter's Dregs
Oddly enough, the best antidote to winter's bitter dregs might be a 19th-century outcast's desolate wanderings through a frozen night. Three Pianos, a loosey-goosey adaptation of Schubert's bleak Winterreise song… More >>
Henrik Ibsen threw the wildest party in Western drama, but his audience wasn't invited—it takes place between the acts of Hedda Gabler, his 1890 tragedy. At the end of Act… More >>
Living in a Musical Hoofs Into TNC
Living in a Musical—the sixth collaboration by Mark Marcante (director), Tom Attea (book and lyrics), and Arthur Abrams (score)—is as appealing and enjoyable as the vintage glass bottles of Coca… More >>
Romance is an obstacle course, best navigated with the aid of disguises, dissembling, and a clever confidante's discretion. So suggests the Queen's Company's peppy all-female take on Susanna Centlivre's 1714… More >>
Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial could not have come at a worse time. Rarely has the nation—never mind the art world—lolled around in such a watery limbo. Stir in the present moronic… More >>
