by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
Over the last few days two news stories have assessed the recession’s mostly grim impact on art galleries in various cities across the country. The L.A. Times’ Suzanne Muchnic delivered the more positive of the two by focusing on the surprising...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
A few weeks ago, Decider sent three real clowns to watch Bruce Nauman’s installation Clown Torture at the Art Institute. The clowns, they were bemused. One reacted thusly: “It’s all self-inflicted,” Williams says of the tortured clowns....
by Meg Onli | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog
Big Man Japan at times felt as if it was two different movies. One made me laugh so hard that the people viewing it with me actually thought I was in physical pain. The other part, so boring I started to fall asleep. The mockumentary written, directed, and starring...
by Meg Onli | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog
Friday’s Links Roundup is now becoming Friday’s Twitter Roundup. It just makes more sense. On this week’s short roundup we have drunk people in yoga positions (ouch!), The Renaissance Society posts a video with director Susanne Ghez, and I reveal...
by stephanieburke | Jul 23, 2009 | Blog
Top 5 is going to be short on words this week, since I’m not feeling well. My opening picks, in no particular order: 1. Iranian Short Films at The Nightingale Theater Not only contemporarily appropriate, but controversial. Can’t go wrong with that. $5 at...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog
“Pilgrimage is one of the fundamental structures a journey can take–the quest in search of something, if only one’s own transformation, the journey toward a goal–and for pilgrims, walking is work,” writes Rebecca Solnit in the book...
