Hey, y’all! (a la Brit) So, I know some of you think I ain’t been writin’ recently. But t’aint true! I just been writin’ somewheres else. Check these dance reviews over at The Brooklyn Rail: First, Neal Medlyn and Jack Ferver queer it up at The New Museum… Whether we’re post-gay, post-AIDS, post-Will & Grace, [...]
This Just Out: You can’t spell art without L…I…and E
So, it appears that the Yale artist‘s claims were false, reports The New York Times. Umm…ok. I kinda question Shvarts’s motives. She set up a hoax, got national media attention, then retracts her story, and now she’s calling it art. That kind of ex post facto excuse didn’t work for Winona Ryder when, after getting [...]
This Just In: You Can’t Spell Abortion Without A…R…and T
We’re going to avoid being reactionary about this one. But here it is, for your consideration, from the Yale Daily News: For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): L. Ro., for calling shit out
OMG. How hot is this!? C.C. BFF and NYT dance critic, Claudia La Rocco, just sent a giant spit-ball hurling toward the ballet universe. Basically, she’s like, WTF is with ballet and old crappy sets from the sixties? We totally agree. Christopher Wheeldon tries to excuse the disconnect with this theory: “It’s O.K. that [the [...]
To Do: Shameless Self Promotion (Magnetic Laboratorium @ Whitney Live, TONIGHT!)
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WHITNEY LIVE SERIES AND CHEZ BUSHWICK PRESENT MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM POLIS 07 VIDEO ART PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY MARISELA LA GRAVE FRIDAY / JANUARY 11 / 2008 / 7PM (C.C. be in it to win it.)
Not The End of the World
The New York Times went ape shit this morning after Phillipe de Montebello announced his plans to retire from being the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday. They published not one, not two, but three articles on the chief’s departure. First, Carol Vogel gives you the sober details. Cold hard facts with a [...]
Little House on the MoMA
It’s hard to imagine a more precise example of contemporary decadence than erecting five homes that are not to be lived in, only to be looked at, then taken away. This is essentially what MoMA has planned for their exhibit of prefabricated homes, as reported by Robin Pogrebin in The Times. Well, come on. It’s [...]
THE 2007 COUNTER CRITIC AWARDS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Them’s Fightin’ Words
THE FIRST EVER: MEGA DOUCHE It’s pretty rare these days that one critic will call out another critic for his/her work. Well, okay, except for here at Counter Critic. So how awesomely surprised were we when we found out that hacky old retard with an Arts Journal blog, John Perreault, sent a flaming bag of [...]
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