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...
by Bryan Waterman | Feb 9, 2011 | Art, Writing New York
A little bit of Writing New York liveblogging here: Cyrus is, as I type, lecturing on Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” which we situate in our course by taking seriously its subtitle, “A Story of Wall-street.” Today’s...
by Bryan Waterman | Nov 16, 2010 | Art, People
Our current obsession with the 70s continues on PWHNY. Judging from a quick Google search, it appears this clip made the rounds in the blogosphere a couple years back. I guess I’m arriving late. In any case, here’s a 20-year-old Koons being interviewed by...
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