Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn

Local

More than a few onlookers have characterized this political season’s most exciting local contest as a battle over race.

Getting Trashed

Express

I’m sitting in the dark in a yet to be used press tent pirating electricity and wireless as bugs crawl across my screen. How’s that for camping? It’s a few days ahead of the opening of the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee.

Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau

Art

Rail publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the author’s home/office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and work.

DADA Lives @ MoMA New York

Art

“What is Dada?” asked Theo von Doesburg. The answer came from Tristan Tzara: “Dada is a state of mind.”

The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada

Art

Originally organized by the Centre George Pompidou in Paris under the curatorial guidance of Laurent Le Bon, “Dada” was given two venues in the United States…

Welcome to Bono’s Borough?

A sure sign that a neighborhood is over is when its real estate starts to be marketed to “rock stars” seeking to “avoid the paparazzi.”

Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse

Art

I first learned about Eva Hesse while I was in undergraduate school at University of the Arts through a former teacher, Ree Morton, who would talk about Hess and her work profusely in class.

Eva Hesse: Language and What Remains

Art

“Lines/Language,” the first topic on the invitation to a recent panel on Eva Hesse seemed loaded with potential.

Pied Beauty

Dance

Cradled in The Slipper Room’s womb of a bar that glowed Amsterdam red, Miss Saturn, a go-go dancing hors d’oeuvre for the burlesque buffet, was puppeteer and marionette in her own body.

Two Guys Walk Into a Bar

Fiction

Entering Peggy’s, we interrupted a conversation between the barmaid and Sal about when infants get their first erections. Sal speculated that it was around age two, but Sylvia disagreed vehemently.