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I'll save my thoughts Kevin McAllister's Looney-Tunes-meets-the-Saw -movies chambers of horrors for another blog post.
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Fifty years to the day, Green-Wood erects a commemorative granite-monument.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: News , park slope , plane crash , park slope plane crash , green-wood cemetery , richard moylan , marty markowitz , sterling place , charles cooper , united airlines flight 826 , stephen baltz , Slideshow
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In which a five-headed rabbit enters our nightmares.
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Hey, we just call it like we see it.
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The Scrooge of Brooklyn bike infrastructure rejects peace offering from activists.
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A documentary about moving sheep reveals the trials and tribulations of Western life.
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Our newest conteast, in which you win a six-month supply of tea and other goodies, just for being creative.
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I've watched this 3,000 times already.
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We need a break. Are there any holidays coming up?
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I've eaten some much holiday-themed chocolate these week, it feels like my guts are full of lead.
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He gets a badge, but not a horse.
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We've got two pairs of tickets to December 24's hottest, Heeb-est party. Who wants 'em?
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Warning: One of them is by Smash Mouth.
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Figures in the local music scene reminisce after news of Panero's death breaks.
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Henry Stewart has already declared it the best film of 2011.
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The final night of Yo La Tengo's holiday run at Maxwell's had some pretty special guests.
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The artist Simon Lee and the musician Algis Kizys discuss their free riff on Hughes's Crow poems.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Art , Film , Music , Where Is the Black Beast , Simon Lee , Algis Kyzis , Ted Hughs , Crow , Experimental Film , Found Photographs , Collage
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The thought of it alone makes us very, very tired.
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So embarrassed by Brooklyn's bike-hating borough president right now...
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Cookies and indie rock, obviously.
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The Dude is all up in yr interface.
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Same as what's bad about a Duane Reade on Bedford, only there's no hipsters to redirect anger at.
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Many. Awesome. Videos. (I'll be sledding.)
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So long, historic homes; hello, parking lot!
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Cash prizes and concert tickets could be yours!
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In which we tell you what to think about stuff. (And what stuff to think about.)
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Tonight's rep (and experimental) film pick is about seeing yourself in the world, and the world in yourself.
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Quiet! Scribblers at work.
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In other news, cheese council claims cheese "good for you and great tasting."
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Sutton's KO'd but Stewart's still standing after three acts rounds with David O. Russell's comeback.
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(Your favorite song is by Dire Straits, right?)
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Talking with new Bushwick zinester David Colon.
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How badly could a mid-80s date with Roseanna Arquette possibly go?
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The first of this weekend's rep picks is about the thin line that separates the winners of the world from the outcasts.
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The story that keeps on giving.
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Could someone make it snow now, please?
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The State Department official, who mediated an end to the Bosnian conflict, was the special envoy to AfPak.
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During last night's preview performance the actor and/or stunt double playing Spidey fell ten feet into an orchestra pit, bringing the curtain down early.
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Note to aspiring teen stars: don't hire your parents as your managers.
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Have we mentioned that it's almost Christmas?
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Meatpacking glitz on the LES.
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First they came for the scooters.
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All your worst fears realized in Williamsburg starting tomorrow. Plus afterparty with DJ.
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Because there are only seven, and we can't include them all.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Rap , Hip-hop , Run DMC , Kurtis Blow , De La Soul , Christmas songs , Holidays , Listicle , Snoop Dogg , Eazy-E , Kanye West , Video , Audio
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Looks like the iconic East Village dive will be demolished to make way for new development.
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The best Mexican food in the city (and our number one restaurant of 2010!), finally available in North Brooklyn.
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Celebrating the life of the DIY show promoter and musician.
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Supposed site of Brooklyn's long-feared/awaited Apple Store stays thrifty.
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Imagine, like, the exact cross between Amadeus and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy .
by Jesse P. Finnegan
Tags: Film , Music , Get Your Reps , Prince , Purple Rain , Purple Rain , Only Want to See You Standing in the Purple Rain , Michael Jackson , Kanye West , My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , Morris Day
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After testing the waters in Manhattan, the ubiquitous creative person gets a dealer and an official gallery debut.
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In which we instruct you on the perfect way to enjoy a record, and thus life.
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Your destination for very funny, if not especially believable holiday party excuse emails.
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We haven't had one since the 90s!!
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Manhattan's most practical street artist is expanding to Brooklyn.
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Gee; sad morning for Brooklyn's creative class.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Obit , Brooklyn , Street art , Tags , Graffiti , Sure , Faust , Stickers , Death , Obit
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When was the last time you got Fricked? (More bad puns inside.)
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Also, pandas.
by Deirdre Hering
Tags: Art , Annual Art Awards , Rob Pruitt , Webster Hall , Glenn O'Brien , John Baldessari , Louise Bourgeois , Marina Abramovic , James Franco , Kalup Linzy , Performance art
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Melodrama, murder and Tootsie in the year's trashiest pleasure.
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First VICE , now smoked meat.
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Breaking hearts, winning hearts.
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Sutton and Stewart rip on mourning parents in John Cameron Mitchell's grating grief porn.
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Maybe they're... right?
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In which the director of In the City of Sylvia tours the world, and fashions a frustrating oblique self-critique.
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This certainly beats the free candy cane the mall Santas hand out.
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Pete King isn't half the opportunistic monster Joseph McCarthy was, but he's trying.
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Questions for, and answers from, Rachel Kramer Bussel as a long-running, kinda sexy NYC institution finally completes.
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Just try to enjoy the parts that have nothing to do with a gross soft drink.
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Is this the beginning of the next great art world migration?
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What's Hannukah really good for, anyway?
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The new Harry Potter stinks, and Never Let Me Go is the worst movie of the year. Here's why.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , Film , literary adaptations , novels , never let me go , harry potter , less than zero , wizard of oz , carlo collodi , mark romanek , kazuo ishiguro
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Made up stories, to distract you from your life.
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And, as before, awesome concert tickets too.
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The Fighter is not to be confused with The Wrestler or The Boxer .
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , The Fighter , David O. Russell , Mark Wahlberg , The Tourist , Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Narnia , The Tempest , Julie Taymor , Spider-Man the Musical , The Company Men
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We've all done it, now someone is photographing it.
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Our dream of a 19th-century insane asylum moving into those old Victorians seems more remote by the day.
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You can't do that, I don't think.
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The (bumping) ugly side of war glory, in a 2011 release previewed this weekend.
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It's about time, right?
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More bike lanes, please.
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Now I can die happy.
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Food is the ideal gift to give (cuz you usually get to eat some of it).
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Motion Picture Entertainment! Nobody Does It Better!
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Sutton and Stewart check into L.A.'s Chateau Marmont; nothing happens.
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And thus embeddable herein.
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Twenty local musicians divide into five groups and have 12 hours to become a band. See what ensues.
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When you're working from an outline, the young filmmaker and West Villager reveals, you can use one actor's comments on another actor's dad.
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Holy shit, I can't even believe someone thinks that (let alone would go on record saying it in the Times ).
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Definitely follow Lil Wayne on twitter for a clear-cut answer, heh.
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At least transferring between lines keeps getting easier.
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It may be a bad movie, but it's a bad movie *about death*, so...
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Nothing to do this weekend? Try these...
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And Carlos (score one for the coastal elites).
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Hot new trend: biking while fluting.
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An 850-seater for Driggs and Grand. What'll it screen?
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"I would like to remind the court of yet an other ironic fact about my imprisonment: the space given to Jafar Panahi's festival awards in Tehran's Museum of Cinema is much larger than his cell in prison."
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The well-known independent promoter has died at age 25.
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Maybe the enthusiasm should be curbed for this more promising-than-impressive debut.
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How can I feel scared if I'm so excited for the heroes to die?
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Goodness, this is shaping up to be a bummer of day.
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People, apparently, are constantly re-tweeting really stupid shit.
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Wanna see short films about Coney Island, while donating money to help "save" it?
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In which the NYC memoirist regrets a very detailed description of an old lady's wrinkles.
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Your weekend rep pick, from 2000, treats the Japanese occupation of China like a Road Runner cartoon.
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And you know what? The EC taxes the shit out of "wall lighting fittings."
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Now you want to know what my number one favorite song of the year is, don't you?
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Seriously. I will buy you a drink.
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James Franco: dabbling in every artistic medium since 2010.
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It's modeled on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford . Attention to detail is aces.
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Dad: "What does Totes Magoats mean?" Me: "Totally" Dad: "Totally what?"
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An educated and optimistic estimate of costs and revenues that doesn't seem optimistic at all.
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And all through the Home Sweet Home, not a creature was sober, not even a mouse
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Even though, as Swedes, biking is in their blood. No, literally, their circulatory systems are just networks of tiny bike lanes filled with miniature bicycles.
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The street art star's latest piece goes on sale this morning, with proceeds benefiting her project to build homes in Haiti.
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And also indie rock! (Sorry, no indie rock this time.)
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A new Aperture Foundation publication compiles graffiti from New Orleans.
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Or, why it's ok to defend the movie for more than surface-pleasure reasons.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , Black Swan , Darren Aronofsky , Natalie Portman , Dance , Ballet , Eating Disorders , Menstruation , Symbolism , Self-Discipline , Madonnas and Hoo-ahs
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Promises to throw raging art parties.
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Vito Lopez thinks it's ok to get two salaries.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Denny Farrell , Jose Rivera , Vito Lopez , Lincoln Restler , New York State politics , New York State Assembly , corruption , greed , assholes , shame , immorality , the worst are full of passionate intensity
Features
If anyone tells you this wasn't a good year for music, you should probably just stop talking to them forever.
by Mike Conklin, Lauren Beck, Jeff Klingman and Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Features , Music
Features
Seriously, there is not a person on the planet who's still listening to that M.I.A. record, right?
Tags: Features , Music , Drake , Hold Steady , M.I.A. , Best Coast , Band of Horses , Nicki Minaj , Of Montreal , Broken Bells , Sufjan Stevens
Features
Mike Conklin and Jeff Klingman discuss the fate of MP3 blogs, contrarianism among critics, and lots of other total nerd stuff.
Features
It's understandable that you were too busy listening to "Bloodbuzz Ohio" to dig much further, but don't worry, we did.
Tags: Features , Music , Headless Horseman , Soft Landing , Sisters , World Atlas , Woods , The Shivers , Son of Rams , 2010 , Brooklyn Bands
Features
We reject the notion that there's a "Brooklyn Sound" per se, but if there is, you'll probably be able to find it in here.
Video Essays
In this video essay, the entire year in cinema (or 50 parts of it, anyway) is distilled into 11 minutes, less a year-in-review clip party than a single uber-movie.
by Matt Zoller Seitz
Tags: Video Essays , Film , 2010 in Review , Year in Film , Dogtooth , Boxing Gym , Restrepo , The Tillman Story , October Country , Last Train Home , Babies , Blue Valentine , Nowhere Boy , Meek's Cutoff , Never Let Me Go , Exit Through the Gift Shop , Catfish , I'm Still Here , Inside Job , Solitary Man , True Grit , Mother , The Kids Are All Right , Somewhere , Winter's Bone , Ne Change Rien , Greenberg , Another Year , Black Swan , Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger , The Ghost Writer , Hereafter , Toy Story 3 , The Town , The Human Centipede , Enter the Void , Predators , Scott Pilgrim vs. The World , The Crazies , Shutter Island , Splice , Monsters , Salt , Let Me In , Carlos , Valhalla Rising , The American , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Inception , Tron: Legacy , The Social Network , Machete , Film Socialisme , Video
Features
In which our critics unveil their year-end Top 10 lists.
Film Reviews
Just in time for the holidays, a revival of Claude Lanzmann's epic, definitive oral history of the Holocaust.
Film Reviews
Star-crossed auteur Russell shapes terrific performances in an otherwise anonymous inspirational sports movie.
Film Reviews
Steven Soderbergh compiles monologist Spalding Gray's story of his own life in And Everything Is Going Fine .
Film Reviews
Downtown darlings Ry Russo-Young and Stella Schnabel show off their emerging talents.
Film Reviews
The latest Narnia movie doesn't have the courage of its mythological or theological convictions.
Film Reviews
A ludicrous adaptation of a posthumous Papa novel.
Film Reviews
Glamorous movie stars, plus a glitzy location, plus a preposterous plot equal... very little, actually.
Film Reviews
A nearly comprehensive MoMA retro looks at the Italian master’s five decades of undisputed classics, pleasure-denying Godardian exercises, TV triumphs and curios.
Film Reviews
The biopic Casino Jack is not to be confused with the biodoc Casino Jack and the United States of Money , which was earlier and less pointless.
Film Reviews
The remakers of Tron have the technology, and no real handle on how to use it.
Film Reviews
Considering the murky motives that brought the world this inexplicable 3D Yogi Bear movie.
Film Reviews
Though it's ugly and overlit as any romcom, James L. Brooks's latest is far more grown-up.
Film Reviews
John Cameron Mitchell's adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's play is a gratifyingly grown-up experience.
Features
There is no better place in the world around Christmastime than a cozy bar in Brooklyn.
Features
Brooklyn food culture is really pretty good, ain't it?
Features
Tacos on the run, hot dogs with kimchi, pizza from a truck? Brooklyn has it all.
As Marty Markowitz tells us every day , Brooklyn is cooler than Manhattan now, so city galleries are going for that "gritty" "Brooklyn" "look."
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: General , Art , Gelitin , Canada , Amy Sillman , Spencer Brownstone , Invisible-Exports , Shepard Fairey , Deitch Projects , Marianne Boesky Gallery , Derek Eller Gallery , Tanya Bonakdar Gallery , Street art , Greene Naftali Gallery , Performance art
With increasingly populous gallery districts in Dumbo, Williamsburg and Bushwick, artists no longer need to go to Chelsea to show their work.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: General , Art , Jim Herbert , Roa , Aakash Nihalani , William Lamson , Parker's Box , Pseudonym Project , Public Art Fund , Smack Mellon , Dumbo Arts Center , Bushwick , Factory Fresh , Slideshow
Does this double-record-setting year at the world's auction houses signal a return to the pre-recession art-buying frenzy?
Grotesque celebrity portraits and other fetishized bodies fill her new show at DCKT Contemporary.
Guillermo Calzadilla discusses the duo's whole-punched piano performance and their plans for the 2011 Venice Biennale.
Theater Reviews
It was a good year: Sarah Ruhl was nearly as ubiquitous as David Greenspan; Edward Albee was unjustly panned and performance art stepped into the spotlight.
by Dan Callahan, Alexis Clements, Henry Stewart and Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater Reviews , Theater , Edward Albee , George Bernard Shaw , Will Eno , Marina Abramovic , Sarah Ruhl , David Greenspan , Ontroerend Goed , Peggy Shaw , Under the Radar Festival , The Civilians , Slideshow
Theater Reviews
Six young dance artists offer a glimpse of the state of contemporary dance during DTW's seminal series.
Theater Reviews
Company XIV's sultry re-imagining of the Hoffman fable is a ballet-burlesque journey of sexual exploration.
Theater Reviews
Many of our favorite shows this year (and some we really hated) had spectacular sets. It's time their designers got some love.
Theater Reviews
Like books, albums, exhibitions, and basically every type of cultural artifact other than movies and maybe television, plays should not have trailers. Here's why.
Theater Reviews
The Atlantic Theater Company's Pinter double-bill, The Collection & A Kind of Alaska , relishes then subverts his trademark terse dialog.
2010: a good year for people who know how to read.
Get your future fiction, poetry and nonfiction phenoms while they're hot.
Counting down the most memorable iterations of this bizarre phenomenon.
by Ned Vizzini
Tags: Books , Books , Book trailers , Lowboy , John Wray , Zach Galifianakis , It's a Book , Lane Smith , Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , Seth Grahame-Smith , Asunder , Robert Lopez , Super Sad True Love Story , Gary Shteyngart , You Had Me at Woof , Julie Klam , Sophomoric Philosophy , Victor David Giron , Dark Prophecy , Anthony E. Zuikier , Social Lives , Wendy Walker , Dark Guardian , Christine Feehan , Video
A rather subjective look at the year in fetish objects.
Ask A Cabbie
Ours flies and makes drinks.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Every year is a good year for weird, embarrassing sex stories. Way to go humanity!
Art Fag City
The California conceptualist's retrospective, currently at the Met, is most eloquent when he does away with words.
Features
It was a weird year in the Borough of Churches: filth, corruption, ritual sacrifice and a tornado. Oh, and bees, too.
Features
Seeing Brooklyn, one home field at a time.
