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Before Pictures: An Interview with Douglas Crimp
Douglas Crimp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, c. 1970. Photographer unknown. In September, the art historian Douglas Crimp was speaking about his new book, Before Pictures, at the...
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Ballet, Gravity
Still from “The Avant-Garde Diaries,” 2013, by Fridolin Schoepper. Five years ago, I was mugged and beaten in Brooklyn after turning down a quiet street and passing a young couple idling in front of...
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Dance of Steel
In Soviet Russia, getting a ballet off the ground was no mean feat, as Sergei Prokofiev learned the hard way. Léonide Massine wields a large hammer over the head of Alexandra Danilova during a...
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Bayou Fever
“Bayou Fever and Related Works,” an exhibition of twenty-one vibrant collages by the late artist Romare Bearden, is on view at DC Moore Gallery through April 29. Made in 1979, the works were originally...
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The Art of Whipped Cream
“The Art of Whipped Cream,” an exhibition of drawings, sketches and paintings by Mark Ryden, is at Paul Kasmin Gallery through July 21. Ryden created this work for the American Ballet Theatre’s...
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Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Vanessa Manko revisits Pina Bausch’s, The Rite of Spring. Pina Bausch, The Rite of Spring, 1984....
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Edward Gorey Lived at the Ballet
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...
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The Review’s Review: Out of Time
TGV 9576 // Munich – Strasbourg. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. For years, John Edgar Wideman has been dropping simple words from his sentences. Here’s the opening line from “Nat Turner...
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Diary, 2008
Annie-B Parson’s journal, March 7, 2008. Annie-B Parson’s journal, March 21, 2008. For six months I was given an office, my first and only, at a center for ballet research. I think you act and move...
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On Prince, Volcanologists, and Forsythe’s Ballets
Molten smooth pahoehoe lava flow erupted by Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Photo by user y5RZouZwNsH6MI, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons There is a video of Prince that I can’t stop watching. It’s...
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