The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently opened an impressive and exhaustive retrospective of the art of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997). Born in Rotterdam, the Dutch artist immigrated to the United States as a ship’s stowaway in 1926. He gained notoriety and success in the New York...
In 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, Salò, or, the 120 Days of Sodom, was screened at Italian art houses just a few months after the controversial filmmaker was murdered. By that time, Pasolini had distinguished himself as one of the great filmmakers and cultural critics of...
Invasion! is a really fun and funny play. I want to state that right at the beginning before it gets lost in what’s to follow. Smart, funny, highly theatrical; it is proof that political theatre need neither be dry nor preachy to explore important issues. Okay: now for the rest. During...
On approach, Death By Audio, one of Brooklyn’s Do-It-Yourself, all-ages concert venues, is unassuming – and strikingly so. The north side of South 2nd Street’s sidewalk runs unevenly, from solid concrete slabs at the corner of Wythe Avenue to mid-block cracked asphalt and unkempt...
One of the first glimpses of The Social Network came in July, when an early trailer appeared on YouTube. It was a music video of sorts, featuring a children’s choir singing Radiohead’s first single, “Creep,” over images of typical Facebook photos and status updates—the latter...
Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 film Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), known in the United States as Everyman for Himself and in the United Kingdom as Slow Motion (on account of its most conspicuous special effect), has just finished a welcome revival at Film Forum. Often hailed as Godard’s...
