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Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are all undergoing revivals right now on Broadway. Theatre Update Jeanette Hendler Scene From The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, directed by James Lapine at the 59 East 59th Street Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus. Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles and Who’s […]

Following censorship in the 1980s and vociferous scalding by critics, Richard Serra has transcended all odds with a mammoth installation entitled "The Matter of Time" at the Bilbao Guggenheim. A Torque in Time Jill Connor Gallery/Vistas de la instalaci�n en la Sala Arcelor: Copyright. Robert Polidori, 2005. All rights reserved. Photo by Erika Ede, 2005. […]

Robert Bechtle is a painter of mundane situations. He frequently portrays solitary automobiles or people striking poses next to San Francisco homes. Cars and People Matthew Bourbon Robert Bechtle, Alameda Chrysler, 1981. Oil on canvas, 48 x 69 in. Meisel Family Collection, New York. Robert Bechtle is a painter of mundane situations. He frequently portrays […]

I first saw Gil and Moti, the Israeli performance artists, earlier this year at the Performance Studies International (PSi) conference "Becoming Uncomfortable." I�was quickly intrigued by their work because I�saw in them a�sense of persuasiveness and hope that I�had never found in any other performance artist who work for such long durations?in Gil & Moti’s […]

For her debut New York solo show at Gigantic Art Space, "Across+Down," Edwina White picked up a copy of the New York Times on January 1, 2005, took a look at the crossword, and resolved to answer each clue?in her own way. She talked to Trong G. Nguyen about carrying around a very abstract shopping […]

"Re: MODERN," at the K�nstlerhaus in Vienna until September, brings together a range of contemporary art that engages with the discourse of Modernism. I talked to curators Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Sandro Droschl about contemporary art?s reinterpretation of Modernism, Habermas?s proclamation of modernity as an unfinished project, and the exhaustion of postmodernism. Modemporary Art Andr�s Ram�rez […]