Norman Siegel and the Race for Public Advocate
by Theodore HammLocal
It’s 6:00 on a Thursday night in late March, and Norman Siegel is speaking at a small campaign fund-raiser at the Bowery Poetry Club. The Dance Liberation Front organized the event, and the room is filled with a collection of activist types, who some might view as oddballs and misfits but who proudly call themselves “deviants for Norm,” as one speaker puts it.
Paris ’68: Professors, You Make Us Grow Old
by Andy MerrifieldExpress
On the brink of working class and student insurgency, Guy Debord published The Society of the Spectacle (1967), his best-known text, a work that would become the radical book of the decade, perhaps the most radical radical book ever written. Utterly original in composition, its 221 strange theses give us stirring crescendos of literary power, compelling evocations of an epoch in which unity spelt division, essence appearance, truth falsity.
Carolee Schneemann with Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey)
by Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyArt
Carolee Schneemann, a multidisciplinary artist, transformed the definition of art in the 1960s, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Railing Opinion: Considering the Alternative
by David Levi StraussArt
It has been clear for some time now that the American people love art—the museums are choked with visitors and the art market is booming—but hate artists, who are widely regarded as elitist troublemakers.
Thar She Blows Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians with Kate Trainor
by Kate TrainorBooks
Writer and publisher Dennis Loy Johnson is the creator of the literary weblog MobyLives.com and the founder of Melville House Books, which he launched with his wife, Valerie Merians, in 2002.
- Basquiat by Nick Stillman
- Martha Cooper by Derek L. John
- Martin Kippenberger by James Kalm
- Diana Cooper by Roger White
- Nancy de Holl by Katie Stone
- Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga by Stephanie Buhmann
- Jim Torok by William Powhida
- Brian Walker by John Hawke
- Jules de Balincourt by William Powhida
- Joe Fyfe by Stephanie Buhmann
- Thornton Willis and James Little by Ben La Rocco
- Emily Mason by Roger Kamholz
- Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn by James Kalm
- Saul Steinberg by Ben La Rocco
- Elise Freda by Thomas Micchelli
- Harvey Quaytman by Michael Brennan
Brooklyn's Jazz Renaissance
by Robin D. G. KelleyMusic
In March 2003, Jazz at Lincoln Center hosted a forum titled “Jazz and Social Protest” that drew a predominantly black, standing-room-only crowd.
Double the Pleasure: Dance Meets Poetry in 2wice
by Claudia La RoccoDance
In her delightful memoir, Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto remembers her first years spent dancing in New York, including early morning practices of Twyla Tharp’s Medley on Central Park’s Great Lawn.
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Local
- Norman Siegel and the Race for Public Advocate by Theodore Hamm
- Helluva Impulse Buy by Derek L. John
- An MOU and a Giant Check: Spring, Courtesy of Forest City Ratner
- iPod Wars by Trace Crutchfield
- Pastor of the People: David Dyson by Norman Kelley
- Eavesdropping on Brooklyn by Lela Moore
- Giving Good by Eleanor Bader
- Brooklyn Proves It’s Easy Being Green by Marjory Garrison
Express
- Paris ’68: Professors, You Make Us Grow Old by Andy Merrifield
- Rocky Mountain Lows: Bringing Secession to the Red States by Jason Flores-Williams
- Singapore Gumshoe by J. Scott Burgeson
- H.S.T. (1937–2005): A Strange and Terrible Requiem
- Learning from Right-Wing Media? by Williams Cole
- My Encounter with Army Recruiters by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Art
- de Kooning: An American Master by Deirdre Swords
- Railing Opinion: Considering the Alternative by David Levi Strauss
- Diane Arbus: Revelations Beyond Shock by Tessa DeCarlo
- Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography by Megan Heuer
- Buddhism, Landscape, and the Absolute Truth about Abstract Painting by Chris Martin
- Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art by Cary Levine
- Carolee Schneemann with Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey) by Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
ArtSeen
- Basquiat by Nick Stillman
- Martha Cooper by Derek L. John
- Martin Kippenberger by James Kalm
- Diana Cooper by Roger White
- Nancy de Holl by Katie Stone
- Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga by Stephanie Buhmann
- Jim Torok by William Powhida
- Brian Walker by John Hawke
- Jules de Balincourt by William Powhida
- Joe Fyfe by Stephanie Buhmann
- Thornton Willis and James Little by Ben La Rocco
- Emily Mason by Roger Kamholz
- Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn by James Kalm
- Saul Steinberg by Ben La Rocco
- Elise Freda by Thomas Micchelli
- Harvey Quaytman by Michael Brennan
Books
- Off the Shelves by Book Staff
- Thar She Blows Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians with Kate Trainor by Kate Trainor
- Control by Kathleen Brady
- Michael Cunningham with Philip Kaddish by Philip Kaddish
Music
- Argentina's Diamond, Finally Mined by Ellen Pearlman
- Rachel's: Upstaging "Stage Presence" by Mary Simpson
- Brooklyn's Jazz Renaissance by Robin D. G. Kelley
- Review: Deep Throat Anthology Parts I & II by Derek L. John
Dance
- Double the Pleasure: Dance Meets Poetry in 2wice by Claudia La Rocco
- Taylor Turns 50 by Vanessa Manko, Lester Tome, and Claudia La Rocco
- Dancing on the Rail: April’s Lesson in Dance History by Vanessa Manko
Film
- Lost in the Laboratory by Williams Cole
- Down by the Old Mainstream by David N. Meyer
- Go Underground for the Good Stuff by Williams Cole
Theater
- In Dialogue: Framing Rinne Groff by Deron Bon
- Interview or Who’s Afraid of Mr. Albee? by Eric Wallach
- Houses of Faustus (The Devil’s in the Details) by David Kilpatrick
Fiction
- Winners by Caila Rossi
- Revenge by Sharon Mesmer
- The Beaming Ghetto by Carmen Francesca Banciu
Poetry
- Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) by John Yau
- Indeed, Insist (a mystery) by Bethany Wright
- Excerpts from re: evolution by Kim Rosenfield
- Creative Control by Bill Zavatsky
LastWords
- Timetax by Scot Crawford
