From Self to City

Written by City Arts on April 11, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Susanna Coffey’s Outward Visions By John Goodrich Most gallery-goers will be familiar with Susanna Coffey’s self-portraits—those upward-turning faces, small and closely modeled, set beneath panoramic views. One such painting greets visitors to Coffey’s current exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. The rest of the show, however, concentrates on another, little-known facet of her work:
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Bouquet of Eccentrics

Written by Armond White on April 11, 2012. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Whit Stillman’s ‘Damsels’ in the clouds “I like my characters to walk in clouds,” said the great comedy director Leo McCarey. “I like a little bit of the fairy tale.” That confession well describes the McCarey classics that execute a precarious balance between realism and fantasy—The Awful Truth, Make Way for Tomorrow, Love Affair, The
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Shake That Body: Vital Parts Rearranged at MoMA

Written by City Arts on April 10, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

by Marsha McCreadie A show to give you nightmares and rip through your subconscious, Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration at MoMA is not so much about decay as rearrangement. The slight misnomer of the title hints at the gothic quality of the 90 paintings, drawings, images, pen-and-inks—you name it—by artists as disparate and wide-ranging as
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Iconic Ambassadors

Written by Armond White on April 5, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Kehinde Wiley’s Cross-Cultural Pageant Kehinde Wiley uses deliberately flamboyant colors. Loud as hip-hop music and just as assertive are the grand claims Wiley makes for the subjects he paints: Young men of, yes, color stand out among the traditional, time-muted tints of the ancient and holy fabrics that frame them in the exhibition The World
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From the Amazon to the Upper Manhattan

Written by Our Town on April 4, 2012. Posted in Arts our town, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

By Carly DeFilippo While the Upper East Side may not be the typical neighborhood for an up-and-coming artist, 26-year-old Harrison Love makes the most of his unconventional stomping grounds. He describes the Metropolitan Museum as his “church, a place to seek spiritual guidance” and cites the Frick as one of his favorite collections in the
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The Middle Child of French Wines

Written by Josh Perilo on April 4, 2012. Posted in Arts our town, Dining west side spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

The Middle Child of French Wines Constantly overlooked, the Rhone Valley makes some of the best wines Being a wine from France is a lot like being a sibling in a large family. You have the oldest, who gets the attention for being the oldest. You’ve got the perfect sibling, who’s always getting straight As.
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A Sea of Sound

Written by West Side Spirit on April 4, 2012. Posted in Arts our town, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

A Sea of Sound Tallying New York’s philharmonic excess By Joseph Smith Is it just me or is it too loud in here? Often, when I attend symphonic concerts, I find myself disconcerted by the noisiness of the programming. It seems to me that concerts now tend to be too unrelievedly composed of works from
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New York Family: Audra McDonald’s Song

Written by New York Family on March 28, 2012. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Family, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Triumphant in her return to Broadway in ‘Porgy and Bess’, four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald would be the first to say her favorite role is being a mom By Kat Harrison A yellow-and-red friendship bracelet is twisted loosely around Audra McDonald’s wrist, a daily reminder of her daughter Zoe, now 11. On the same hand,
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Petty, Human and Perfect: Sherman, Rembrandt and Degas in Portrait

Written by City Arts on March 28, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Our Town

By Mario Naves What would art be without fiction—that is to say, without the allusive sweep of metaphor? Literature, music, painting, poetry, dance, film—you name it, every medium thrives when it embodies something beyond its material means. “Art that conceals art” is old news, of course, but that’s not to say it isn’t desirable or,
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Armond White: Starve, Suckers! Hunger Plays TV Game

Written by Armond White on March 26, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, NY Press Exclusive, Our Town, Our Town Downtown

By Armond White On the most superficial level, The Hunger Games is about a futuristic post-war society called Panem sacrificing its young people in a gladiatorial-style survival tournament. Each district in Panem sends a female and male Tribute, chosen by blood-type lottery, to fend for themselves in the wild as part of a lethal game
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