Bridget Riley and Roy Lichtenstein

THE BEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE! DJ Steve Porter featuring Vince Offer “Slap Chop Rap Remix” I watch a lot of TV.  A lot of NY1 and other news.  The news in real life can be just as entertaining as it is with Kent Brochman on The Simpsons, or Tom Tucker on [...]

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Anisette, photo via Vlassis13 Did you or anyone you know ever have the book “Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll“ by Richie Unterberger?  The book catalogs and describes some of the most influential and original, often insane, musicians from the 1950′s – 1990′s who for one reason or another never attained mainstream success or fame, [...]

Setting: 3AM, 6 train from Spring Street to 86th Street.  Probably the fourth time I’ve run into Alden a.k.a. Karim Fonda from Team Facelift on the subway in the middle of a weeknight. Me: What are you working on now? Alden: Right now we got an album coming out on Duck Down Records.  (((At this [...]

Martin Monnickendam (Dutch, 1874-1943), Portrait of Jacques Goudstikker, image via The Jewish Museum (Reclaimed begins with this portrait of Jacques Goudstikker, a handsome young man at age 19.) Reclaimed: Paintings From the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker at The Jewish Museum is partly an exhibition of Dutch, Northern Baroque, and Southern Renaissance paintings, and more interestingly, [...]

Rudy Burkhardt, Pedestrians, New York City, 1939 Photo via Met Museum There’s a show up at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of which I’ve come back to three times because I enjoy it so much, maybe I can convince you to come see it too… New York, N. Why? (1940) is a handmade scrapbook of [...]

by Jesse Max Creed At the MoMa, whose location below Central Park should provoke no dispute over territorial possession as is being discussed about the east-west divide for the Met, I discovered a bawdy, yet compelling piece on women in history entitled Notes in Time (1979) by the artist-against-injustice-turned-feminist Nancy Spero. The piece finds itself [...]

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