Perspectives on the Quake: The Return of Madame Marc

Local

My grandmother, Elinise Francois, flew into Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, January 12, three-and-a-half hours before the quake.

Remembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage

Express

On the morning Max died, sun flooded the apartment I grew up in.

SUPERFLEX with PHONG BUI

Art

Just a few hours before the January 22 opening reception of their exhibit Flooded McDonald’s at Peter Blum Chelsea, which will be on view till March 22, 2010, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about their lives and work.

WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER with SASHA SUDA

Art

In two successive afternoons in late October, 2009, New York-based art historian Sasha Suda came to visit the world renowned scholar of art history Willibald Sauerländer at his home in Munich to talk about his life and work.

ELISA SIGHICELLI with JOHN YAU

Art

On occasion of the artist’s new exhibit The Party Is Over, which will remain on view at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue till February 27, 2010, Elisa Sighicelli paid a visit to the home of Art Editor John Yau to talk about her new body of work and more.

RICHARD BAKER with JOHN YAU

Art

A week before the opening reception of a new body of paintings at Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Richard Baker welcomed Art Editor John Yau to his DUMBO studio to view the works, and to talk about the painter’s work.

WHAT BARBARISM IS?

Art

What interests us in the thought and writings of T. W. Adorno cannot interest us. Where it touches us most closely in the urgency of the moment, it misses the mark entirely. When it cuts to the quick, nothing is felt. This is easily demonstrated. For wherever we open Adorno’s writings, whichever volume we turn to, the topic is the barbaric and barbarism.

A More Decent Republic

Just in case we forgot, during the State of the Union address President Obama reminded his audience three times that as Americans, we are nothing if not a “decent” people.

Culturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD

Dance

Each time the HERE Arts Center door opened on January 12, another down-swaddled body squeezed inside the tiny lobby, and we got a blast of frosty air.

"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)

Music

In the ongoing struggle between theory and performance in avant-garde music, theory has increasingly assumed the upper hand.

from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION

Fiction

Mundane things, pitiful in their mundane assertiveness, their sad isolation. Kraft French dressing, glowing weirdly orange through its glass bottle, a green glass bowl of green salad, a bottle of Worcestershire sauce, its paper wrapper still on.