Confessions of a Child Smuggler

by Gabriel Thompson

Local

At present, my greatest fear is not that I will be mistaken for a kidnapper, or a child molester, or someone set on bringing a two-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother from Mexico to the United States on a diabolical organ transplant scheme. My concern is less fantastic, and more frightening.

Harold Pinter’s Nobel Speech

by Harold Pinter

Express

Ed.’s note: The following speech was delivered by Harold Pinter in December of 2005, upon his acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature. We have left the British grammatical style intact.

Jon Kessler with Katie Stone Sonnenborn

by Katie Stone Sonnenborn

Art

Jon Kessler’s exhibition at P.S. 1, The Palace at 4 A.M. is anathema in the current state of art. Raging and fierce, his elaborate kinetic sculptures directly address the current socio-political state of the world through the eyes of an American.

The Splendor of the Word: Lucy Freeman Sandler with Jim Long

by Lucy Freeman Sandler

Art

Performa 05, the first Biennial ever of “new visual art performance,” that ambiguous yet agreed-upon term encompassing spoken word, theater, film, video, computer art, photography, music, sound, travel, and lectures, stormed across the alleyways, byways, hallways and city streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Governor's Island, revitalizing the tattered memories and hearts of that even more ambiguous thing referred to as “downtown.”

Jake Berthot with Ron Janowich

by Ron Janowich

Art

In the midst of his preparations for a new exhibit at Betty Cuningham Gallery, Jake Berthot takes time to welcome painter Ron Janowich to his Accord studio in upstate New York to talk about his life and work.

Carolee Schneemann by Stephanie Buhmann
Merlin James by Roger White
Yuliya Lanina by James Kalm
Cordy Ryman by Tomassio Longhi
Ten New Paintings by William Powhida
Cheryl Molnar by Hrag Vartanian
Gordon Moore by Ben LaRocco
Deborah Roan by Stephanie Buhmann
K. K. Kozik and Sook Jin Jo by James Kalm
Mike Schall by Shane McAdams
Sandy Litchfield by Ben LaRocco
Kim Levin by Lauren Ross
Santiago Calatrava by Cynthia Eardley

Make Me Feel Something

by Grant Moser

Music

Seductive and moody and oh-so-beautifully textured, the songs of Calla are reflections and shadowy whispers from your hidden corners. Listening to these songs is like sitting at a dark corner table in a basement bar, or being underground with a fallen angel telling you fables, or walking the city on a quiet night, or waking up from a dream and trying to grasp at the fleeting images that just recently occupied your mind.

Same-Sex vs. Same-Old

by Tessa DeCarlo

Film

A married protagonist falls head over heels in love with a same-sex buddy, and heartbreaking complications ensue. This sums up the plot not only of that famous gay-cowboy movie, but of the new Brit chick flick Imagine Me & You. What Brokeback Mountain approached as high Hollywood art, Imagine Me & You gloms onto as trendy not-so-high concept.