Erik Parker: New Soul

By Robert C. Morgan

FEB 2019 | ArtSeen

New Soul is Erik Parker's second exhibition with Mary Boone. Once again we may experience the artist's penchant for bright flaming colors and zany surfaces.

Martha Diamond: 1980-1989

By Nina Wolpow

FEB 2021 | ArtSeen

Such a feather-thin line between fear and delight, that which sucks the soul and that which saves it, is patently New York, and by the transitive property I have realized, patently Martha Diamond.

Listening In: Olivier Conan, The Soul of Barbès

By Scott Gutterman

OCT 2020 | Music

I’ve sometimes puzzled over what people mean when they say, “be fully present.” But my nights at Barbès often provided a natural version of that phrase. It was like a literal expression of that beautiful Rumi line, “I have fallen into the place where everything is music.”

Brooklyn 2020

By Steven Taylor

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Poetry

Steven Taylor is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn. His latest works are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg, from Three Rooms Press, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, from Ace Records.