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Norman Siegel and the Race for Public Advocate

by Theodore Hamm

Local

It’s 6:00 on a Thursday night in late March, and Norman Siegel is speaking at a small campaign fund-raiser at the Bowery Poetry Club. The Dance Liberation Front organized the event, and the room is filled with a collection of activist types, who some might view as oddballs and misfits but who proudly call themselves “deviants for Norm,” as one speaker puts it.

Paris ’68: Professors, You Make Us Grow Old

by Andy Merrifield

Express

On the brink of working class and student insurgency, Guy Debord published The Society of the Spectacle (1967), his best-known text, a work that would become the radical book of the decade, perhaps the most radical radical book ever written. Utterly original in composition, its 221 strange theses give us stirring crescendos of literary power, compelling evocations of an epoch in which unity spelt division, essence appearance, truth falsity.

Railing Opinion: Considering the Alternative

by David Levi Strauss

Art

It has been clear for some time now that the American people love art—the museums are choked with visitors and the art market is booming—but hate artists, who are widely regarded as elitist troublemakers.

Diane Arbus: Revelations Beyond Shock

by Tessa DeCarlo

Art

Even culture warriors who might still profess to be offended by half-dressed drag queens can’t pretend to feel the innocent upset they would have thirty-eight years ago.

Buddhism, Landscape, and the Absolute Truth about Abstract Painting

by Chris Martin

Art

Painting and Buddhism are old friends.

ArtSeen

Brooklyn's Jazz Renaissance

by Robin D. G. Kelley

Music

In March 2003, Jazz at Lincoln Center hosted a forum titled “Jazz and Social Protest” that drew a predominantly black, standing-room-only crowd.

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