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...
Farewell Tour: Sam's Burgers, Swan Oyster Depot & Zuni's Chicken
The list I had made was long and I was short on time and tight with money. The Tonga Room, Red’s Java, The Buena Vista, Farallon, The Old...
Sex, Death and Butterflies in Michoacan
The migration of the North American monarch butterfly between Mexico and Canada is a journey of life, death and rebirth, a testament to...
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...