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Art Picks From Print

Paul D'Agostino — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:49:42 -0400

Fertilities deeply organic and variably mechanical ground this set of art picks from our 6/19 issue.

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Summer Museums Preview

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:15:00 -0400

Escape the heat, become smarter. Jewish Museum, RB Kitaj Jewish Museum In 1969, painter RB Kitaj made 50 screen prints based on books in his library, stains, rips and all—”an intellectual self-portrait”—and through early August, the museum will have 33 of them on display.…

Northside Film Day 3: Picks from the L Mag Staff

admin — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:46:00 -0400

Need some advice on where to spend the penultimate night of Northside Film? We're happy to be of assistance.…

Your Guide to the 2013 Northside Festival

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:00 -0400

tktktk 06/13 Warsaw Showcase Jameson Black Barrel Lounge Vitamin Water House…

The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week

Aaron Cutler — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Crash (1996)
Directed by David Cronenberg
Holey leg-fucking, it’s the carmaggedon. Transposed from bleak early-70s London to equally bleak mid-90s Hollywood, the phlegmatic, single-minded characters of this Cronenberg vehicle are no less brilliant ruminations on humanity’s inherent violence and how such violence is enhanced by technology.…

I'm So Excited!: Almodóvar's Airplane

Ryan Vlastelica — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

The Spanish director returns to his roots with this sex farce. by Ryan Vlastelica I'm So Excited!Directed by Pedro Almodóvar The Spanish director goes back to his roots with this sexual farce that plays like Airplane!…

Bogus Journeys

Paddy Johnson — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Traveling for work in the art world isn't as glamorous as it might sound. by Paddy Johnson If you work in the art world, your life probably looks pretty good from the outside. You spend a lot of time traveling around the world for art events, and a lot of your job is simply thinking about art and talking about it with celebrities and museum directors.…

The LaBute Problem: Some Girl(s)

Nicolas Rapold — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Is the playwright-filmmaker's shtick worth returning to? by Nicolas Rapold Some Girl(s)Directed by Daisy von Scherler Watching Neil LaBute’s 2006 play, or its screen adaptation, you could imagine the writer-director asking himself: what if I skipped all that in-between stuff and just wrote a series of confrontations?…

Piece of Cake: Dynaco

Virginia K. Smith — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

This Bed-Stuy spot serves a frosted slice of chocolate that goes surprisingly well with whiskey. by Virginia K. Smith Dynaco 1112 Bedford Avenue, Bed-Stuy 3.5 L's When you think about bar foods that go well with whiskey, “a dense, generously frosted slice of chocolate cake” isn’t usually one of them.…

#Wiening: Museum Hours

Henry Stewart — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Jem Cohen's gorgeous ode to Vienna, museums, and art. by Henry Stewart Museum HoursDirected by Jem Cohen There are two main characters, but to say that this movie's about them wouldn't quite be right.…

Fred Valentine: Humorous Haunts

Paul D'Agostino — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

A studio visit prior to the artist’s solo exhibition at Sometimes permits glimpses of fantastical horrors and humors alike. by Paul D'Agostino A dozen or so new paintings lined and sidled up against the walls in Fred Valentine’s Ridgewood home studio—which also functions as the main room of his gallery, Valentine, on weekends—when I paid him a visit recently. It was about a week before the opening of his solo show at Sometimes (through July 12), another artist-helmed exhibition space, this one operated by James Siena in Chinatown.…

Polytechnicalities

Audrey Ference — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Dear Audrey, my girlfriend says she's poly, but I don't believe you can love two people at once. by Audrey Ference Dear Audrey,My girlfriend and I have been together since high school. We’re now in our late 20s.…

A Hijacking: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

Benjamin Mercer — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

This Somali-hijacking movie is tauter for its stretches of eerie calm. by Benjamin Mercer A HijackingDirected by Tobias Lindholm By now, the Somali-pirate hijacking will be a familiar nightmare scenario to anyone who’s even casually perused the headlines since the turn of the 21st century.…

The Fundamental Things Apply: The Silver Cord

Dan Callahan — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Peccadillo revives this 1926 smother-love expose with effective sincerity. by Dan Callahan The Silver Cord Peccadillo Theater Company Sidney Howard's name may not ring many bells today, but in 1925 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his play They Knew What They Wanted.…

How Do You Keep Cool in the Summer?

Ryan Vlastelica — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

"Sometimes I put all the ice cubes in my freezer in a big bag and then rub that all over myself." by Ryan Vlastelica Mohammad Hailed in: The Lower East Side Hails from: Pakistan You know what you Americans always get wrong about heat? You drink cold things when you should drink hot things.…

A Crash Course on the Brooklyn Art Scene

Benjamin Sutton — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Everything you need to know to make it as an art-lover who doesn't ever want to go to Chelsea. by Benjamin Sutton Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Courtesy Clearing So you’re a recent MFA grad from Yale, RISD, VCU, SCAD, or another highly regarded (and high-priced) studio art program, and you’ve arrived in Brooklyn to recoup your investment and conquer the art world?…

Theater On A Park Slope Stoop

Henry Stewart — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Brave New World will perform Street Scene on the street. by Henry Stewart The Brooklyn troupe Brave New World Repertory Theater will perform Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene on the streets of Park Slope—in front of a former tenement on Fifth Street west of Prospect Park West. (There are two shows on June 22, at 1pm and 5pm.)…

Tropfest: Short Films Move to Brooklyn

Henry Stewart — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Talking to the founder of the world's biggest short-film festival, which is in Prospect Park this year. by Henry Stewart Tropfest, which calls itself "the world's largest short-film festival," started in Australia 21 years ago; it's since expanded to several continents. This year, for the first time, its New York iteration will be in Brooklyn—in Prospect Park, on the Nethermead, on June 22.…

McCann’s Troubles: TransAtlantic

Elina Mishuris — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Colum's problematic new novel looks at Ireland's tragedies through myriad eyes. by Elina Mishuris TransAtlantic By Colum McCann (Random House) This book’s flights of fantasy arc over a world that author McCann never tires of spinning, his ear out for echoes to take up and turn into song.…

Don't Be Yourself: Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship

Henry Stewart — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

The titular frenemies in this trifling indie comedy don't learn from each other so much as switch places. by Henry Stewart Bert and Arnie's Guide to FriendshipDirected by Jeff Kaplan This trifling indie comedy's opening credits, with an old-fashioned piano song and their white text on a black background, feel like they're meant to evoke a Woody Allen movie—it's even set in New York, though you could hardly tell.…

Reasons to Wine: Falansai

Kara Zuaro — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400

The food at this Bushwick Vietnamese place was great. But the food pairings were divine. by Kara Zuaro Falansai 112 Harrison Place, Bushwick 5 L's Your first instinct might be to order a beer, but that’d be a mistake.…

Northside Film Day 2: Picks from The L Mag Staff

admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:38:00 -0400

Northside Film continues today with nine (count 'em!) screenings happening across Williamsburg and Greenpoint.…

Brooklyn's Best Young Filmmakers

Henry Stewart — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Now in its fifth year, BAMcinemaFest (June 19-28) may not have the cultural cachet of the New York or Tribeca film festivals, but it's quickly becoming a local favorite for those in-the-know. Two years ago, the New Yorker's Richard Brody called it "the city’s best independent-film showcase."…

Photos: Solange Asks 5,000 People to Grind Like They're at a Middle School Dance

Mike Conklin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:05:00 -0400

We'll have lots more photos from this past weekend coming at you over the next day or two, but we wanted to start with one of the final shows of the festival, Solange at McCarren Park as part of Converse Rubber Tracks Live at Northside?. It was everything we hoped it would be: there was dancing, there was singing along, then there was more dancing.…

Northside Film Day 1: Picks from The L Mag Staff

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:54:00 -0400

Take it slow today, get re-hydrated and ease your Heineken-induced hangover; Northside Music may be over, but Northside Film kicks off today. Tonight alone, you'll find eight screenings going on across Williamsburg and Greenpoint, but in case you're having trouble deciding how and where you should spend the first night of Northside Film, allow us to make some suggestions.…