Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate 2004-2006 polished stainless steel 33' x 66' x 42' [detail of installation] I think I expected to be charmed by Anish Kapoor's sculpture in Millenium Park, but when Barry ...

low down on the High Line Barry and I visited the newly-opened first stretch of the High Line last Thursday, in spite of a light mist which probably reduced the crowds of the curious that afternoo...

Harness dresses 2003 Half Moons Blossom into a Cornflower dresses 1998 One Seam lace dress 1998 Broomstick Librarian shirtwaist dresses (hand-painted by Ruben Toledo) 2008 Pouch skirt and o...

some of the hundreds of thousands of Mousavi supporters marching in silence today in central Tehran (green was the signature color of the opposition's campaign) I think they're going to make it. ...

the flat the caf Barry and I both love Mark-Anthony Turnage's work, and we love our fifteen-year-old CD of his 1988 opera, "Greek", in which he reinvents the Oedipus myth in London's East End du...

". . . she certainly was then quite completely interesting." [from the dialogue] It's an exquisite recreation of one of her most abstract texts. Target Margin Theater's powerful production of Ger...

Bill Mutter Bunny Boy, Devil Boy, Pinnochio Girl (dates unknown) ceramic sculptures, dimensions variable [installation view] I think what you see above was the most intense image I carried home in...

sculptor David Lukowski warming up for tomorrow's play For twelve hours tomorrow, beginning at noon a group of 30 or so scrappy artists will be putting on their own show, "Playing Through", in an ...

with good in one hand and evil in the other Barry and I happened to be visiting the Metropolitan's newly-reworked American Wing on the same day the California Supremes announced their decision o...

I've seen it described as his masterpiece; it's almost certainly his most personal, exuberant and uninhibited expression of pure sexual jouissance. Twenty years ago today Keith Haring finished hi...