Tehran disco

by | 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...

Remembering The Gates in Central Park

by | 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...

Downtown Body

by | 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.

We Are Duchampians

by | May 31, 2011 | Art | 1 comment

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...