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.

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.

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.”

The American Crisis: A Trans-Atlantic View

By Charles Reeve

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Field Notes

Ultimately, the disquiet of the European ruling classes clarifies what they understand to be the essence of that “soul,” whose contours seem at first sight to be rather vague: democratic consensus. For the implosion of this consensus opens up on conflicts and clashes escaping consensual resolution and makes even the pursuit of the reproduction of a modern capitalist society seem difficult.