Life as a Cabaret

Walter Corwin with Dan Kelley

OCT 2019 | Theater

Walter Corwin has been hanging out and having his plays performed at Theater for the New City going on 40 years. A protégé of Ed Bullins in the ’60s at the Public Theater and a veteran of the Actor’s Studio and The Herbert Berghof Studio, he’s never been afraid of weaving politics into his writing. The last decade of his practice has been an investigation of short form theater seemingly tailored to life in New York.

Gina Beavers: The Life I Deserve

By Charlotte Kent

JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen

The lighting for Gina Beavers’s exhibit The Life I Deserve is Instagram perfect. That seems only fitting for paintings based on social media posts and aware that they will return there as #art #museum #artselfie or even, in a potential throwback to 2015, #museumselfie. The artist’s #Foodporn series from 2014 gets particular attention, though the newer series based on makeup tutorials had some snapping pics as well. All this begs the question, what are we looking at?

Keith Tyson: Life Still

By Daniel Pateman

SEPT 2019 | ArtSeen

The still life painting—that most quotidian of art genres—is given a modern makeover in Hauser & Wirth’s latest exhibition

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes's The Sweet Flypaper of Life

By Dani Issler

APR 2019 | Art Books

In 1955, just as the celebrated Family of Man exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Simon and Schuster published The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a small volume of photographs by Roy DeCarava with text by Langston Hughes.