2012 Whitney Biennial
There is a haunting melody that runs through the multiple works of sculpture, painting, installations and photography in the…
Painted Betty at Dixon Place
Have you noticed the absence of French-speaking cowboy salsa bars around New York? Me too, and fortunately the brave…
Painting Churches
Keen Company recently brought back Tina Howe’s beloved 1983 Painting Churches, a play about the dysfunctional, but lovable, Church…
Movie Review : The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges (2012), a cinematic rendition of the 20th-century comedy trio, written by Mike Cerrone and the Farrelly…
True Life: I’m addicted to the NY Neo-Futurists
I am an addict. I’ve spent a shocking amount of time and money on my addiction, refusing to wean…
I Am In A Basement
It’s a small room, but I have no complaints. You Are In An Open Field, playing at HERE in…
The 2012 Whitney Biennial: An Informal Look into Art
The 2012 Whitney Biennial is the place to be for fans of American modern art. Running until May 27th…
Adaptation Review of The Hunger Games
When a beloved book, like The Hunger Games, is adapted into a movie two things are certain: details will…
Eisa Davis at Symphony Space
Recently at Symphony Space, Eisa Davis literally lit up the stage with her golden dress and her shining personality,…
The Total Bent
“Ya know it’s funny how things seem one way, then you find out things ain’t the way they looked…
An Hour of Enjoyable Confusion
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on March 8th was filled with silence as everyone focused on the dancers of…
PINA (3-D) – Lovesick Women to Alpha Males
“I want her in my dreams.” These are the words of one of Pina Bausch’s dancers, as she speaks…
Wild About Painted Betty
On March 23rd I found myself walking down Chrystie Street, entering a hole in the wall known as Dixon Place….
“Mirror Mirror” on the Wall, What Film Makes Me Sickest of Them All
“La Belle et la Bete” (1946) starts off with a Jean Cocteau’s message to the audience to leave their…
Shinique Smith in the Raw
Dirty, dusty, dingy, deteriorating, decaying. These are words which come to mind as one first views the building in…