Shigeko Kubota: River

By Ida Pruitt

MAR 2019 | 1 by 1

In Shigeko Kubota's River (1979–81), a curved, stainless steel trough is a vessel for flowing water. Reflected in it are videos from three CRT cube monitors suspended face-down from above. The screens—which, hung at eye level, the viewer must observe with a bend of the back and upward turn of the head—play videos of Kubota swimming.

Mathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service

By Mathias Svalina

JUL-AUG 2018 | Fiction

These are dreams written for the Dream Delivery Service. With the Dream Delivery Service I take subscribers &, every day for a month, I write & deliver dreams to them. To subscribers in the city I’m in, I deliver the dreams before dawn via bike; to subscribers residing further away, I mail the dreams.

Layers of Possibility: Site-specific dance and the River to River Festival

By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

JUL-AUG 2018 | Dance

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)'s River To River Festival stages art and performances throughout lower Manhattan, enlivening civic buildings and other public spaces with free events. The festival originated as part of the post-September 11^th economic revitalization, demonstrating that the neighborhood was safe and resilient.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Hold on, let me take the safety off

By Madeleine Seidel

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

You are hit first by the contrast. The clinical white of the gallery walls behind the black leather and paint draw in and repel—equal and opposite forces. Within the freeing constraints of the gallery space, we are invited to explore an artistic vision of other types of freeing constraint: physical and psychological kinds, based off leather and trust and, most importantly, balance in pain and pleasure.