Hannah Gadsby will absolutely make you laugh, but she will also make you rethink everything you know about comedy and storytelling.
Thoughts On Hard Edges
by Taylor Fisch
Hard Edges: Lorser Feitelson, Elise Ferguson, Alois Kronschlaeger (1 March – 14 April 2018) Hard Edges is a two-person show (arguably three) of new work by the New York based artists, Elise Ferguson (b. 1964) and Alois Kronshlaeger (b.…
Groovy Times: The Life and Art of Jason Alexander Byers
The first time I visit Jason Byers’ Bushwick studio, the walls are covered floor-to-ceiling with black and white paintings of churches, all soon to be framed for an upcoming exhibition. The space feels like that part in every thriller movie,…
In Frankness and Wonder: The Years I’ve Known Scott
I met Scott Laudati at a luckless hotel in the meatpacking district where I had just started working. One night a fedora’d fuck approached the front desk and thrust a bag claim ticket in my face. He said “Be quick…
LOVE ISSUE5 Collages by Bill Wolak
The Evanescent Residue of Delirium An Inconclusive Beckoning Twice By Burning The Inescapable Trajectory of Longing The Promise of Perfume Bill Wolak has just published his fifteenth book of poetry entitled The Nakedness Defense with…
“The Occasion of Crewdson-Meets-Crewdson” by Naomi Falk
It has been nearly two years since Gregory Crewdson’s Cathedral of the Pines debuted at Gagosian Gallery in New York City, and as the photographs travel to new countries and galleries with their artist, I revisit my initial impressions of…
“A Haunting on Bowery: The Borusan Collection in NYC” by Mina Hamedi
Picture a castle-like red brick mansion, resting beside the second Bosphorus bridge, the strait that divides the city of Istanbul, Turkey into Europe and Asia. This mansion, tiered and grand, was built in 1911, then abandoned when World War I…
“Keeping Big Band Jazz Alive: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks” by Emmett Lindner
The crowd is small but feverish inside the Iguana, just north of Times Square. From the bandstand, a fiddle sings out for four bars. A trumpet follows with a solo. The fedora-clad crowd cheers and dances. The era of prohibition,…
Catching up with Samuel Stabler
In the six years I’ve known Sam Stabler, we’ve collaborated several times, culminating in exciting shows in New York and Los Angeles. In these projects, Sam has stayed the course, creating paintings from his two major series, the Cut-outs and…
At the Whitney Biennial, The Medium is Message by Etan Nechin
The Biennial works as a kind of snapshot. A snapshot, after all, is a photo taken hurriedly, its emphasis is about the what’s happening now, on the surface; it isn’t meant to be analyzed deeply. Maybe it is too much…
“it’s my fault I guess there’s something/dead in my heart or my eyes or my head:”Three Poems by Brandi George
Brandi George’s first collection of poetry, Gog (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) won the gold medal in the 2015 Florida Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Columbia Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, and…
Art by Schuyler Hazard: Paintings from Fondazione Per L’Arte Residency
Her only goal as an artist is to obtain the empathy she so longs for.