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.

Susan Bernofsky’s Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

By Cigdem Asatekin

JUL-AUG 2021 | Books

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (Yale University Press, 2021) is an affectionate, precise piece of writing that illustrates a man of complexities both personal and professional. It is an intimate portrait of an artist, soul-crushing in its realism, with all its valor and rigor.

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.”

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.