by Bryan Waterman | Oct 23, 2014 | Art, Cultural History, Events
Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy...
by Bryan Waterman | May 25, 2012 | Art, Books, People, Teaching
Joe Brainard at work. My office is perilously close to looking like this right now. p.s. You know about this, right?
by Cyrus Patell | Nov 16, 2011 | Art, Writing New York
Earlier this week, we at NYU Abu Dhabi were treated to a visit by the artist Christo, who spoke about one of his signature projects — The Gates — which took place in Central Park in February 2005. The project was conceived in the late 1970s by Christo and...
by Bryan Waterman | Jun 21, 2011 | Art
Ward Shelley, “Downtown Body,” 2008. View an enlarged image here. More on the Downtown Body Project here. Thanks to Hannah Smith for pointing me in the direction of this print.
by Bryan Waterman | May 31, 2011 | Art |
Both of my seminars this summer have read Calvin Tomkins’s profile of John Cage, published in The New Yorker in 1964 and collected the following year in his volume The Bride and the Bachelors, which also contained long reads on Jean Tinguely, Robert...
by Bryan Waterman | May 26, 2011 | Art, Film |
Happening from Django's Ghost on Vimeo. From Ubuweb: “An irreverent portrait of America of the 60s seen through the experiences of artists of the Beat Generation and Pop Art. The America of the Vietnam war, ploughed by contradictions and explosive social...
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