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, or blindly drifting in [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Art World, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rail, Critics, Dance, Downtown, Museums . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
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 pinch [...]
January 9, 2008
Categories: Art World, Museums, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
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 not [...]
January 8, 2008
Categories: Art World, Museums, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (Oh boy…
The second round of the rock-em-sock-em performance art biennial known as Performa, ended Monday night in a self-immolating “Grand Finale” at the Hudson Theater in Times Square. The festival, which has made us all laugh, cry, pull out our hair, stress out way too much about our fashion sensibility, and [...]
November 22, 2007
Categories: Art World, Downtown, Events, Gallery, Lincoln Center, Museums, Performa 07, Pop Culture, Rant, Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 5 Comments
What gives, people?!?! The Times reports on two instances of crazy m-er f-ers vandalizing artwork.
First, some drunken lout pushed his fist through a Monet at the Musee D’Orsay.
Then YouTube posts an actual coup de culture that took place at a little university gallery in Sweden that was displaying some sexually explicit photos by NY artist, [...]
October 9, 2007
Categories: Art World, Museums, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY!
“A New Museum [IN ENGLAND] Is Frank In Its Exploration of the Slave Trading Past,” by Jane Perlez, of The Times
“He ain’t white! He ain’t white! He definitely…ain’t…white!”
Anyone see Not Another Teen Movie???
August 23, 2007
Categories: Art World, Museums, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY!
Juuust in case you had forgotten why we all need a faithful Counter Critic in our lives, Martha Schwendener at The Times, with the flick of the whitey, throws down this inanely reductionist and haphazardly authoritative phrase in her listing for the Studio Museum of Harlem’s “Midnight’s Daydreams” exhibition. Regarding the [...]
August 23, 2007
Categories: Art World, Critics, DUCHY, Museums, NY Times, Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
My girls up at the Studio Museum of Harlem are having a little soiree and discussion for their resident artists, Titus Karphar, Wardell Milan, and Demetrius Oliver. I saw the show, and so should you.
7PM TONIGHT
144 West 125th Street: A, C, B, D, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all to 125th Street
Yes, please!
August 22, 2007
Categories: Art World, Museums, To Do . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Ouch.
Our amigas over at the Studio Museum of Harlem got a little beat-down from Nicolai Ouroussoff in The Times for their current exhibit featuring architectural models and sketches from David Adjaye.
Don’t fret ladies. We got your back.
And if there were like some kind of tunnel that ran in a straight line from Brooklyn to Harlem, [...]
August 1, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Art World, Museums . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 2 Comments