In the Green Chair, Talking Alternative Lives:
PAUL AUSTER with J.T. Price

JUNE 2017 | Books

On an outwardly pleasant day in early April of 2017, the author appears in profile through the glass panels of his front door. When the buzzer sounds, Paul Auster rises from his dining-room table to welcome me. I have arrived, on the dot, at 2 p.m. to discuss his teeming new novel of the 1960s 4 3 2 1. It is a bildungsroman with a speculative twist: four different lives lived in alternating sequence by the same young man.

Private Collection: LAUREN BAKST with Jess Barbagallo

by Jess Barbagallo

JUNE 2018 | Theater

I keep seeing Lauren Bakst’s performance work Private Collection: in the gallery space of a Bushwick apartment complex, the sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, a downtown loft on Broadway.

The Menil Collection Reinstallation: Selections from the Permanent Collection

by Alex Jen

DEC 18-JAN 19 | ArtSeen

Founders John and Dominique de Menil built the collection on a belief that art could be something both sacred and modern, linking viewers to cultures across time by means of an inherent, shared poetry of form. So when the Menil announced a six month renovation in February to completely reconfigure and reinstall the galleries, displaying works that have never been exhibited, I was excited.

“I can imagine you (reading these words) into being”: The documenta 14 Reader

by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

SEPT 2017 | Art Books

At one point in his introduction to The documenta 14 Reader, curator Adam Szymczyk refers briefly to Artaud’s “theater and its double.” Since Documenta’s most recent iteration wraps up its showing this month in both Athens and Kassel, his off-hand allusion most likely privileges the “double” in the phrase.