Book Review: John A. Chakeres' First Flight
Courtesy of © Daylight Community Arts Foundation I’ve often thought that, of all the things which can be glimpsed by our eyeballs across...
Book Review: Recovered Memory
Courtesy of © Daylight Records To be birthed and reared in one of the world’s great cities is both a boon and a misfortune. A boon...
A Year On, Ai Wei Wei's Human Flow Is More Relevant Than Ever
Last week, on a gusty afternoon of spotless blue skies, the global refugee crisis arrived on the Upper East Side, roosting beneath the...
Exhibition Review: Eugene Richards' The Run-on of Time
Courtesy of © Eugene Richards In the arts, context plays various roles, be it to make sense of a work, enhance and deepen its meaning -...
Exhibition Review: The Whitney's Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again
The Whitney’s new exhibit, “Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again,” comes no closer than any previous endeavor in shattering the...
Book Review: The American Fraternity, An Illustrated Ritual Manual
Courtesy of © Andrew Moisey Have you heard of Diane Fossey? She was a pioneering primatologist who spent years studying packs of...
Exhibition Review: Gordon Parks
Our fascination with beginnings, with the nascent in art, music, literature, history, etc., is bound up with our obsession with what...
Book Review: Mirror Mirror
Ryan McGinley’s book, a companion piece to his show “Mirror, Mirror,” is, plainly put, a collection of nude selfies taken by people in...
Memory Connection and Loss: The Work of Hope Herman Wurmfeld
Courtesy of © Hope Herman Wurmfeld When photographer Hope Herman Wurmfeld moved from New York City to Rome in early 1964, post-war...
Murder in Paris Park Highlights Shortcomings of Prostitution Law
Back in the dog days of mid-August, 36-year-old Vanessa Campos was murdered in Paris’ Bois de Boulogne park. Her death came a...